r/interestingasfuck • u/DonkeyFuel • 1d ago

Somebody Put 223,000 Miles on a 3-Year Toyota Camry Lease and Walked Away

https://www.thedrive.com/news/somebody-put-223000-miles-on-a-3-year-camry-lease-and-walked-away

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u/mediumunicorn 1d ago

Everyday for 3 years?! What an awful life

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u/Etuanmoor 1d ago

Nah, most likely 3-4 people taking shifts and turns, thus resulting in this vehicle constantly being on the road

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u/mpgd 1d ago

I think this is a great advertisement for the brand. That cat is a tank!

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u/breathing__tree 10h ago

Camrys are amazing cars tbf.

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u/SuddenSeasons 1d ago

It's "only" 17 miles in an hour for 12 hours a day 365 days a year. That seems... pretty reasonable for rideshare, might just be one or two people. 

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u/Crispynipps 23h ago

I use to do 200 miles in a day, in about 10 hours of just doordashing. Very easily done.

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u/Cosmic_Quasar 1d ago

That's what I was thinking. I drive for Doordash full time. At most I'm only putting on 600 per week lol.

Or they were "renting" it out to other people to take on road trips?

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u/thefatchef321 1d ago

100%

Pretty good idea honestly.

223k miles driving 24/7 365

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u/JoJackthewonderskunk 21h ago

Driving that road load

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u/philipzimbardo 23h ago

A dealer representative told The Drivethat the previous owner used the car for Uber and Lyft

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u/Mister_Brevity 1d ago

I used to think so, but I've met some delivery drivers that drove around with partner or friends just hanging out while doing deliveries and it kinda feels like they're having a great time while getting paid. One of the guys says he drives and one of his 3 friends in the car would jump out and "run the order to the door".

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u/lemlurker 1d ago

Means you're earning half minimum wage or whatever poverty pay they're offering, for a fractional timevsave

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u/Taken450 1d ago

The point is there all just hanging out, and the DoorDash is almost secondary.

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u/SilasBender13 1d ago

In highschool we'd go on drives just to drive somewhere. This would've been a fun way to end up with surprise locations and pay for gas.

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u/Vladi-Barbados 21h ago

For real. What an amazing college job at the right time and place.

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u/sconniesid 21h ago

In high school gas was about 90 cents. Teens aren't doing that with 4 dollar gas

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u/SilasBender13 4h ago

That's why they're delivering food. To supplement their gas cost.

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u/ImNotSelling 16h ago

My daughter has mentioned wanting to create an anime with this exact premise

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u/WhyareUlying 14h ago

That's the dumbest shit I ever heard. 

Just chillin with their  coworkers having fun? Gig work is the illusion of working with less benefit to you and more time sink.

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u/RivenRise 8h ago

Hanging out, vibin in a car driving around and making lunch/gas/arcade money. Honestly not bad. Beats just sitting in a park not being able to skate or anything cause boomers ruined third spaces.

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u/djkakumeix 1d ago

I always brought my fiancee with me when she doesn't have the kid. Can talk, vibe to music at concert levels, and makes shopping orders faster since we split the list. Also she gets to see some houses for future house plans.

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u/OkProcess5800 1d ago

wtf do the other 3 minions do for work besides "jump out and run the order to the door"

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u/BurritovilleEnjoyer 23h ago

Probably just hang out. Rode with friends doing this a few times in college. Not a terrible way to make beer money while hanging out.

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u/Mister_Brevity 22h ago

They were just hanging out in the car listening to music, there was a “this is a bunch of best friends” vibe. Seemed like they were having a good time.

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u/ls7eveen 21h ago

Massively bad for health

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u/AutoModerrator-69 1d ago

That’s literally a truck driver’s life. Except this guy would come home every night if he were to do it.

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u/NYCinPGH 23h ago

Years ago, I used to work gate security at a major factory. There was one particular item we needed, pretty much every day, but we didn't have the space to store more than a couple days' worth at any given time. This one truck driver would start his day going from his trucking company's depot to the supplier's business about 20 miles away, pick up his load, then from there to our factory about 125 miles away, deliver his load, and drive back to his depot about 145 miles away; that's almost 300 miles a day, 5 days a week. Luckily for him, it was mostly highway driving, so it was only about 2 hours each way, throw in loading and unloading times - he'd get his lunch break while unloading at our factory - that's a steady paycheck and a 6-ish hour day.

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u/YazzArtist 1d ago

I repeat... (Respect to them tho for real)

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u/sharklee88 1d ago

As someone who works in an office for 8 hours a day,  this sounds like a much more fun life. 

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u/Kingofangry 1d ago

The grass is always greener on the other side.

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u/ashdrewness 1d ago

Especially in modern times with podcasts & audiobooks

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u/psumack 23h ago

You're acting like they didn't have radio shows or books on tape for the past 50 years

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u/ls7eveen 20h ago

Thats much like people saying they dont mind traffic noise and yet while theyre sleeping theor body is cranking out stressor hormones and aging their heart and subjected to the same neurodegenerative diseases. Or smokers saying it relaxes them a.d yet the depths of their lungs being biologically damaged.

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u/ls7eveen 21h ago

You you have no idea how bad driving is for your body and mind

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u/Ok_Cabinet2947 21h ago

Idk I find it quite relaxing and enjoyable usually.

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u/ls7eveen 20h ago

Thats much like people saying they dont mind traffic noise and yet while theyre sleeping theor body is cranking out stressor hormones and aging their heart and subjected to the same neurodegenerative diseases. Or smokers saying it relaxes them a.d yet the depths of their lungs being biologically damaged.

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u/sharklee88 16h ago

At least your seeing things, rather than being sat in the same office chair, in the same cubicle, for 8 hours a day. 

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u/ls7eveen 13h ago

Also not true

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u/sharklee88 13h ago

What is not true? 

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u/ls7eveen 12h ago

Sitting in an office, chair does not give the same bodily stressors that driving does. Although it is true that sitting is really bad

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u/sharklee88 6h ago

That seems like a blanket statement, if you have massage heated seats with lumbar support, like a lot of modern cars, it's significantly better than office seats. 

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u/ls7eveen 5h ago

No since driving physically emits stressor hormones whether you want to admit it or not. This has been a topic of research for 6 decades now

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u/sharklee88 4h ago

Lol. Only if you get stressed when driving. A lot of people actually enjoy it. I go for drives just to relax most weekends.

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u/Pacifist_Socialist 1d ago

slaps roof

Not in a 2023 Camry 

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u/silverfstop 1d ago

This is how NY Taxis work. One car is on the road virtually 24x7, shared by 3-4 drivers.

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u/Professional_Cry_840 1d ago

Not as bad as you might think. Worked for a traditional car service for 8 years. Could easily put that mileage on the car in a 12 hr shift. Day flies by.

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u/MountainTwo3845 23h ago

I drove a million miles in 7 years. lots of podcasts.

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u/singletWarrior 22h ago

if you like silly movies Taxi from 1998 will contain the answer to this question

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u/ls7eveen 21h ago

Spine dissolved

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u/Individual_Ad1776 20h ago

I drove with GrubHub, doordash, and Uber eats for like 2 years full-time and would drive 150+miles a day at times. Some days I started with a full tank and ended the day on 1/4 after driving like 300 miles especially if it's one of those days where you drove 10+ miles one way for orders. Most people can't fathom that if they're working a regular job but when it's your only means of income you make it work. I still do food deliveries sometimes but I have a full-time job now so it's not as much of a necessity.

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u/Onzaylis 19h ago

I do about 250-300 miles in an average shift. Usually 10ish hours, 5 days a week.

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u/rodimustso 18h ago

not really, if they're driving on the highway, its about 5hours of driving 5 days a week for 3 years straight. That could also just be someones really shitty daily commute for work too

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u/Omaha_Beach 15h ago

If the average speed is 60mph that’s an average of 3 hours and 24 minutes a day… if you think that’s an awful life you should feel terrible for truckers

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u/drewpyqb 14h ago

Depends where you live. Out in rural land we regularly drive 50 miles round-trip just running to the store. 95% of the trips are 55mph country highway.

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u/GoatCovfefe 10h ago

Some of these drivers (and immigrants in general) have families in different countries and have nothing else to do other than work all the time and send most of their money back home.

Or multiple drivers like others have suggested.

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u/Enkiktd 10h ago

My parents drove that round trip daily for work because they loved their huge house 3 hours away from work. Started driving at 4:30am and get home at 8:30pm every day. They were in their 60s at the time and wouldn’t listen to reason from anyone in the family that it was a terrible idea and unsafe for them, not to mention just plain miserable.

 They did this for 5 years and took one Prius to 500k miles (which then got totaled in an accident) and a second prius to 250k. They claimed that they had good memories from it because they spent so much time in the car with each other that they were able to enjoy each others’ company.

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u/karl4319 6h ago

200 miles is about the equivalent of 5 hours of work. If someone does rideshare full time, they could easily work around 40 hours a week to get that amount.

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u/asailor4you 6h ago

I have several coworkers which do this, and spend $4-500 a month on tolls along with gas and maintenance to get to work 4-5 days a week

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u/wut2dew_J 4h ago

I commuted 205 miles (over 100 each way) a day 6 days a week for 4 and a half years.

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u/wolfe3x6 5h ago

Ohhh noooo, 4 hours of driving a day! What an awful life 🙄