Aw, come on. My business is boring. Your business is more interesting. 😜

Ohiobuckeye
 

We had a security guard at a plant I used to work at & he was very big on safety especially on golf carts we had in our plant. It was a 2 million sq.ft. building This peticular guard had his leg on the outside of his cart & got to close to another storage bin & caught his knee & pulled his leg back so far that it dislocated his hip. Man he must of been going really fast to do that. After that I don’t think he showed his face out in the plant. I think I always seen him in the guard house! Golf carts are heavy & won’t stop on a dime when catching body parts, believe me body parts will give before anything on a cart will.

OMG. Who cares. Mind your own business people.

It’s called “Man-splaying”, not “Man-spreading”, not to be confused with “Man-splaining”. Yes, it’s an actual thing.

I noticed it within a few months of moving here. I asked my husband about it. He said it’s usually due to men’s big stomachs and being overweight. Their thighs are taking up all the space needed for his junk….so, the junk needs some space. Thus the need to splay themselves.

Hope that helps…. :)

We once knew a fella who hung his left foot out of the cart while on the golf course. The turf caught his cleats and he rolled right out of the cart. He was never the same. Since then my husband and I cringe when we see this.

Long live, rock and scroll.

My only assumption is those who are fighting back on this Thread are the “Spreaders”.

Live by the sword die by the sword.

Ouch

I was born before the tattoo generation. Some tattoos are cringe-worthy. And people ACTUALLY pay money for them. I watched them come into fashion with GREAT surprise. When I was young, you only saw tattoos on drunken, lonely sailors. Fashion can be strange sometimes, I guess.

Tattoos
 

I don’t have any tattoos. I don’t particularly like them, but I will say something about those people who do have tattoos: you never see them complaining on TOTV about you not having any!

Manspreading, never heard it described like that. I hung my leg out for years when I had a cart at a campground. In the villages I do it now and again but not when in traffic etc. if I am the only one out there I do it and come 9 PM I am the only one out. No big deal, not sure it is a comfort thing or a habit.

Me neither. Mind-boggling. I have to lean all the way to the window in an uncomfortable position to try it myself, and I have long arms. Again very baffling to see it and I always figure they have some really low IQ.

Years ago, we were coming home in the evening from Spanish Springs and there had been a bad accident. It happened in the round about and the police had us go the opposite way on the round about. It seems a man had his left knee outside his golf cart. He didn't see the stop sign posts that were in the middle of the path. His knee hit the stop sign post and shattered his knee. They air lifted him to a hospital. Very sad.

I agree Nucky

Most are cringe, as I keep my skin clean for this very reason. Don't get me started on those nose rings though. I feel like handing them a kleenex. Actually saw a poster in a store the other day of a model wearing one. Ugh....

I think you might be wrong. FYI - Razorback has years as a Trooper under his belt too

if the left leg is going to get whacked because of it leaning out the side....then the entire left side of the cart is going to suffer as well. we are talking inches karen.

Not Snarky
 

Please take this in the least snarky tone possible.

I really want to know why you care if someone does this. Most of us as children learned from our mistakes, like touching a hot stove. If this individual gets their leg/foot whacked, my guess is that they will not do it again...

For those of us who may have not learned from our mistakes over our lifetimes, we probably won't reach the age to be able to take advantage of all TV has to offer, right?

Natural selection I suppose. I say let 'em get whacked.

Hmmm one way to look at it but IMHO not the best way to make friends and influence people.

The Hanging Leg Problem
 

If you really need to give guidance to folks about things like this, they probably don't need or will not use the advice anyways. Best to just let them learn on their own (keeping in mind that the age of residents in The Villages indicates they are supposed to have lived a life already).
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
They'll eventually figure it out.

Over 8,000 views!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Indicator of interest?

Just kidding.....but over 8,000!!!!!

:throwtomatoes:

Yes, I am the moron, the idiot and the imbecile as described here, but I'm not "manspreading!. My left leg does hangout when driving the cart because I'm 6' foot 8" and there's no place else to fit my leg. I so tired of 5 foot somethings who don't get it. And, Yes, I'm very careful when passing carts to give them plenty of room, even on the Lake Sumter bridge, where it's very tight.

If this is all you, the OP, has to complain about, somebody needs a cookie.

To paraphrase a famous line from Jaws "You need a bigger boat"! Or, in this case, a golf cart. I wonder if they make these for seven footers?

For about 10 years there's been a major push from multiple sources to have men sit like women.

The struggle continues.

Now, if I can find a 6" foot 8" woman "ladyspreading", that would be something to see!

I believe that you, and your length, is an outlier. From my admittedly limited sample of Splayers looks as if they are wider than taller.

Still, for your own safety of appendages be very very careful.

You seem to have a very valid excuse but please be careful out there

Not a complaint, 6’8”, just imagining that when the person gets their leg destroyed, his wife (or partner) will be the one that suffers because of the bitching and whining will be directed toward them by the idiot who couldn’t keep his freaking leg in the cart.

Thank you for remembering that. Yeah, I don’t have 38 (25) but I bet I worked more during the 20 years I was on the road in the rural areas I was in; the last 5 years I worked UC.

"valid excuse"? vs. what exactly?

You imply that there are people driving carts that don't have a "valid excuse" to extend their leg or arm.

Should there be a law against manspreading? If so, just on carts or in general, like on the subway or in school, libraries, theatres, etc?

Let me take a moment to Man Explain One Very Important FACT! Ever since a little boy was a little boy many have had incidents where they got hit in that very special area. I fell on my bicycle bar and from that day forward I spent the rest of my life protecting the area that the OP brought up.

I also believe that instinctually it is a built-in instinct to cover up and do whatever is needed to keep yourself safe in that area. If we drive by someone whose jimmy is in imminent danger there isn't much that can be done cause I'm going in the other direction. Get over this. Men have themselves covered, don't worry bout it.

Some people don't have anything to protect. They are the ones who hide behind a computer screen all day.

Don't take any offense at krazonback, a trooper I believe and for me, that equals extra respect from me at all times, every time without fail.

Personally I’m not concerned in the least as to their manhood area. Yes cover up please but the core issue is the leg splaying. The knees…. And the impact to others if sideswiped or hit a solid target.

I hear ya. Anybody who has the other parts cares about the knees the least and the other parts that would be involved as collateral damage are the most important by leaps and bounds.

I understand your personal concern is different than most people and I for one am amazed by your choice of area of concern but find it very funny also! WOWIE! Ouch! :pepper2:

this entire thread is absolutely ridiculous..... can we stop now????

Almost 10,000 views!!!!!!!!!!!
What does that indicate?
:shocked:

Someone just needs to stop thinking about what others do or do not do. Just let it go as they say.

Yes you’re exactly right, it’s an accident about to happen. Like the old saying, it’ll never happen to me, maybe not but when it does there’s no saying I wish I would of listened! Always someone that thinks & wants to prove us wrong.

I'm surprised there is no MANdate against Manspreading.

Ladies, you get upset if we look at your boobs, so don’t look at my nuts!

That this forum needs some more interesting threads.