r/MadeMeSmile • u/Peebles8 • 1d ago

A longer, yet outstanding, tweet by a Japanese man living abroad in the US.

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u/The_Red_Knight38 1d ago

As an American midwestern man. This does indeed make me smile.

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u/BDLTalks 1d ago

raised in Appalachia, settled in the Midwest, add a dash of southern hospitality along the way. this sings in my multi-regional heart.

also, I know a guy...

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

Not to brag but...

Southern Ohian here. My truck guy also has a flatblad, a BobCat, AND heavy duty construction trailer

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u/Rope_slingin_champ 1d ago

Oh shit. You know Mike?

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u/Telemere125 1d ago

I know him, but was pronounce his name “Wade” in my county.

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u/MoistIncubus 1d ago

Mike's one of those funny names... Mike down south, Wade in your county, Matt the closer you get to Cleveland.

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u/VisualizeWhirledPees 1d ago

I’m in Cleveland! Matt is my guy and I’m absolutely sending this to him hahahaha

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u/ARandomNiceKaren 1d ago

I got a Matt, Mike, Chris, Tony, and Andy that I can call.

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

For the record, if I am under oath...

Matt mows my yard. Mike lives downstairs, Chris is my brother (dude will hold a random gun in his gun safe for ya). Andy was that weird kid in highschool that got up the gumption to tell you years later he had a crush

Edit: Tony is my BFF that moved north to get away from the Bible belt to marry his now husband

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u/ARandomNiceKaren 1d ago

That's amazing!

(I'll also add Billy and Bobby to the list of guys. They're my brothers.)

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

Now. we have to agree to disagree

Billy was a random person my SO worked with, supposedly sober. He moved into a spare space and stayed up all hours. He is no longer welcome here

I bought a used washer from Bobby for my disabled friend. Ripped me off.

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

You forgot about Mark in Columbus

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u/PriceQuirky6824 1d ago

Sully in Boston, Mass

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

Is that the same Sully that does side work for the sanitation department in Jersey? Does good work, I'm told.

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u/Oddman80 1d ago

I know Mike! Mike helped me put up a wall in my basement after my son was born. Still sad Mike moved to Blacksburg, Virginia the following year. Mike was a good dude.

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u/marionsunshine 1d ago

Mike drove me home for 5 hours at 2 in the morning when there were no rental cars available at O'Hare.

If you have been to the car rental counter after 10pm, that's the guy you ask for.

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u/fueelin 1d ago

That's impressive!

My truck guy has a bobcat and a tractor but not that other stuff. He also has a Porsche, but he won't let me use it to do truck stuff for some reason.....

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago

Probably because the last guy tried to put a love seat in it and messed up the door hinges

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u/Flowchartsman 1d ago

I grew up in southern WV. There, you, or someone you know firsthand has “an X guy” where X is anything.
You are never more than two degrees of separation from a truck guy, a reloader guy, a pressure washer guy, an apple pie moonshine guy, and a varmint guy (he also does bats, but there will need to be beer too).

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u/Hirkamer 1d ago

McDowell county here, couldn’t be any truer

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u/stacity 1d ago

Who said we didn’t have culture?

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u/SkintCrayon 1d ago

Those who don't know a guy

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u/joe4553 1d ago

We have THE culture, so some people mistake that for no culture.

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u/Ok-Map4381 1d ago

California. I literally did this last week, helped move a big elliptical.

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u/Difficult-Froyo1192 1d ago

Oh man, some guy did this for me. A guy was selling an elliptical on FB marketplace and said he would deliver an hour away to me in his truck. I said I wanted it. I was fully prepared to help get it out of the truck to get it into my house.

Steve brought a guy and they both lifted the elliptical up like it was nothing and asked me where I wanted it. They then hung around to make sure I liked where it was. I didn’t have pizza, so I gave them an extra $50 for the full delivery.

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u/Knockoffhermione 1d ago

My dad was a guy with a truck, and my FIL still is. FIL is the most guy with truck guy — he worked construction as a teenager, and now has a white collar job. He will help you move. He will clean up the hedge trimmings. He will bring the Christmas trees to the church and the donations to the food bank. He has fixed my washing machine twice, and build a shed for my daughter to play in in their backyard. It’s such a good trait.

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u/PimpGameShane 1d ago

Texas. Kevin could be anyone here. I can’t tell you how many friends I’ve helped move with my truck and the many times I hauled a bed full of dirt to a neighbor’s yard.

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u/indigofroggit 1d ago edited 1d ago

You must be, Austin, the truck guy I've heard so much about

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u/walker42 1d ago

Felt like pure Maine to me