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"large" is relative.

Unless you're incredibly thorough about totally cleaning out the vault, ATM, every teller drawer, etc. you're probably not gonna be able to get more than a few 10s of thousands if you're lucky

But even a few thousand, or hell, even a couple hundred could be huge for a lot of people.

That might be rent for a month or a couple of months when they're really struggling, what they need to keep their car from getting repo'd so they can get to their job, pay for some badly needed home repairs, medications, etc.

I'm not struggling, but I'm not exactly doing great either, a couple extra thousand bucks on-hand would be amazing for me, and for some people it could be literally life-changing (even life-saving)

I've given 2 strangers strangers a jumpstart in a parking lot at night over the last year or so. I suppose technically those people I helped know about it, but I haven't been going around bragging about it to anyone (until now I guess)

My all accounts, I'm a heavy sleeper, there are basically only 3 things that will reliably wake me up

My alarm clock
Having to pee
My dog throwing up or whining to go out (usually an indication that she's gonna have diarrhea)

I sleep through my wife's alarm going off (usually several alarms, she like to hit snooze,) showering, turning lights on, listening to podcasts while she gets ready, the sun coming up (I work partially overnight, I'm usually in bed by about 4 or 5 AM,) landscapers mowing the lawn outside my window, kids screaming at the nearby playground and school, fireworks, thunderstorms, construction (although I was not able to sleep through the siding repair I had done with a guy hammering on the wall directly behind my bed)

One time my wife was able to get me out of bed and stand me up so she could fix the sheets without me being fully awake.

When I was a kid my mom could vacuum in my room without waking me up.

Currently, which US politician is serving as president?

Also if we want to split hairs, the presidential election was 7 months ago, but you specified "this last election"

Which for about half of US states means a 2025 primary election. Not to mention all of the non US lemmings who might have had more recent elections in their own countries.

And I sure hope none of them voted for Trump because he wouldn't have been on any of those ballots.

I mean, it probably takes about as long for me to remove the seats from the van as it does for me to find a broom and sweep out the truck bed to make sure my mattress doesn't get dirty because I've been using my truck as a truck, so six of one, half dozen of the other.

And truck bed or roof rack I'm anal about securing my loads, so I'm gonna spend a few minutes fucking with ratchet straps either way, box springs are light so unless you're really short it's pretty trivial to get them on a roof rack.

Plus you get the benefit of being able to carry more passengers when you need to. Haven't found a pickup yet that will seat 7 or 8 people.

Probably not in a minivan, but I've personally loaded pallets into cargo vans with a forklift

I've moved many a mattress in my parent's minivan. With the seats folded down or removed and a bit of an angle and/or squishing in a bit you can usually fit a queen, maybe even a king depending on the mattress and van. Box springs are harder, but often still doable, and in a pinch can be easily strapped to a roof rack.

They also have a '93 ranger with the 7ft bed, still chose to use the van for mattresses as often as not, to need to strap anything down or cover them if there's rain in the forecast.

I did a road trip with my wife a few years back and borrowed their Sedona, took out the back seats, threw a "queen" sized air mattress (I'm pretty sure it was a little undersized from a real mattress, but still pretty close) and the mattress was a little squished on the sides but otherwise fit pretty comfortably in the back, we slept in the van for about a week moving between different campsites.

Know what mattresses don't fit comfortably in? The 5.5ft beds a lot of pickup trucks have these days.

Yes, but I work a weird schedule with more days off than most (but slightly more hours overall because I work 12 hour shifts) and I'm on night shift, so lots of time to myself after my wife goes to bed.

My work is also pretty chill about what we do with our down time, and there's usually plenty of it on night shift so I've been known to bring my switch in with me and play it at work on occasion

No kids, and we're both kind of homebodies (my wife moreso than me) so we've been known to game together on occasion too.

Streetlight Manifesto- 3 times

I don't think it's so much about what he did as VP as much as the fact that his time as VP kind of set him up to run for president later.

We are all ready well-into the discussion and you just kept going further down an absurdist rabbit hole

I made a solid effort to have a good faith discussion, and you came in with ridiculous claims that tightening a bolt with pliers instead of a wrench is somehow breaking a thing worse. Balls in your court now to defend that or else I can only assume that you're just looking to stir up shit.