"DON'T TOUCH MY BRONCO!"

[broncobase1]

Porter as a term to describe someone who moves goods during transport has been around for centuries. My understanding is that "porter" relates to men who worked at ports of call and would (as longshoreman do now) load and unload ships.

When trains were invented, and began being used to transport goods, porters were the manual labor to get this done before all the mechanization and so forth. When Pullman created the luxurious Pullman cars, it was a conscious decision to staff the car attendants with black men, since at the time most wealthy people were comfortable with black labor (basically stewards). The term was carried over.

However, over time being a Pullman porter came to be considered a good job comparatively, and there's a whole PBS documentary about families looking back on their grandfather's work fondly. This doesn't mean they were always treated well, and closing the "porter" era is perhaps a clean way of breaking ties with that old, problematic Jim Crow legacy.

"Porter as a term to describe someone who moves goods during transport has been around for centuries"

I agree -- just don't hear it used much in the USA for the reasons discussed.

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[Figmo]

LOL @ “windows go up and down when you open and close the doors”

yeah….now that you mention it…i guess they do do that….sometimes. But as a “you don’t need to slam the doors” solution I find it quite lacking.

It’s always just when you think you got it committed to muscle memory how hard to pull that door… it lets you down and you get the “transmission not in park“ alarm

I just slam the sh!t out of mine all the time. It’s the only way to be sure

 

[BlueBronco]

This thread is f'n wild. Definitely, in my top 5 fav's. 9/10 would recommend.

 

[userdude]

" Porter as a term to describe someone who moves goods during transport has been around for centuries"

I'm guessing you're contesting this, so I looked up the etymology and it's from the 14th century french term porteur:

porter (n.1)
["person who carries"] late 14c. (mid-13c. as a surname), portour, "person who carries" (goods, burdens), especially one who carries burdens or runs errands for hire, from Anglo-French portour, Old French porteor "porter, bearer; reporter" (12c.), from Late Latin portatorem (nominative portator) "carrier, one who carries," from past participle stem of Latin portare "to carry," from PIE root *per- (2) "to lead, pass over."

also from late 14c.

https://www.etymonline.com/word/porter

 

[userdude]

This thread is f'n wild. Definitely, in my top 5 fav's. 9/10 would recommend.

 

[Fordified1]

I just got back from getting my Bronco serviced at the dealership. After seeing both of the porters who moved my Bronco slam it's door behind them while walking away, and one of them moved another owner's Bronco and did the same right in front of me. So I politely called the guy over and asked him if he was aware of the frame less windows and that the windows go down and up when you open and close the doors? And, we was engaged in a conversation with the porter, who was polite and generally interested comparing the Bronco's frame less window with the Jeep's framed windows that had he just drove too.

The owner of the Bronco that we were standing next to, walked by at the same time, he seemed to be smiling at what I was telling the porter and I asked him "Do you mind if I show him (the porter) what I mean?" To my surprise as I reached for the door he says, "Yea! I mind! DON'T TOUCH MY Bronco!" And Then goes from smiling at us to looking back with a glare.

Really! I wanted to call out to the guy who's about half my age and ask him, "do you know how many people are gong open and close your Bronco's door while it's being moved around and serviced?" But I said nothing, even after the stare down he tried to throw back.

The porter than remarked "Yea every time he comes in his Bronco [a black Badlands] is spotless clean and it looks like he never takes it off road." Then joked about how many Broncos come in and look to have never been taken off road, asking "why these owners buy and never go off pavement at all?" He then comment on how dirty mine was before he washed it and pointing out my stickers, which are just some of my outings, "Yours is always dirty when you come in".

After the kid walked away, we joked about mall crawlers and uptight owners. I mean if I was some rando off the street, I'd get the attitude about not touching it, but a fellow Bronco owner and an old guy too, trying to educate a porter on how to better take care of "Your Bronco" to not damage it?

Not many people around here act like that….except maybe the new transplants from other states, which we’re getting a lot of.

I let a guy check out my bronco at Discount Tire just the other day. “Go ahead open the door and look inside”

 

[broncobase1]

Porter as a term to describe someone who moves goods during transport has been around for centuries. My understanding is that "porter" relates to men who worked at ports of call and would (as longshoreman do now) load and unload ships.

When trains were invented, and began being used to transport goods, porters were the manual labor to get this done before all the mechanization and so forth. When Pullman created the luxurious Pullman cars, it was a conscious decision to staff the car attendants with black men, since at the time most wealthy people were comfortable with black labor (basically stewards). The term was carried over.

However, over time being a Pullman porter came to be considered a good job comparatively, and there's a whole PBS documentary about families looking back on their grandfather's work fondly. This doesn't mean they were always treated well, and closing the "porter" era is perhaps a clean way of breaking ties with that old, problematic Jim Crow legacy.

"This doesn't mean they were always treated well, and closing the "porter" era is perhaps a clean way of breaking ties with that old, problematic Jim Crow legacy."

Like taking Aunt Jemima off syrup bottles and renaming football teams. How has that worked out? Hmmm -- and "Bronco" is offensive to cowboys! Being a cowboy was hard dirty work, how offensive to name a car after a term associated with cowboys. We should start a new thread on renaming Bronco to something more PC for the times. How about -- darn can't say without getting banned.

 

[broncobase1]

I'm guessing you're contesting this, so I looked up the etymology and it's from the 14th century french term porteur:



https://www.etymonline.com/word/porter

No, I'm not contesting it at all. Words can take different meanings colloquially. Like saying I live in America. Technically this could mean Brazil, but 99% of the world knows what you mean.

 

[rdg04578]

where else could a man get a history lesson, music lesson, historical offensive racial slurs lesson, mention aunt Jemima , learn proper etiquette and be informed that it is bad to touch that dude's rigging. I knew it--this thread has it all

 

[rdg04578]

as a matter of fact in all the threads from various Ford, Jeep and Audi forums that I am a member of I can honestly say this is the only time I have ever seen mention of "Aunt Jemima" in an auto forum --well done

 

[2023bronco]

Like taking Aunt Jemima off syrup bottles and renaming football teams. How has that worked out? Hmmm -- and "Bronco" is offensive to cowboys! Being a cowboy was hard dirty work, how offensive to name a car after a term associated with cowboys. We should start a new thread on renaming Bronco to something more PC for the times. How about -- darn can't say without getting banned.

I'd wager you don't know the history of the term cowBOY.

Aunt Jemima and those team names belong in the garbage. Along with this whole thread.

 

[GToddC5]

All this talk about cowboys, and now a stupid song is in my head:

Riding in on his Bronco
Following his porter
His name is Marcus
Can you believe that? (Marcus- oh Marcus- Fighting off danger!)
Posting story on B6G
Plays havoc with the forum
Shaming all the mall crawlers
Don't we all do sometimes? (Marcus gets so dirty)

I wanna be a cowboy
And you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy
And you can be my cowgirl
I wanna be a cowboy

 

[broadicustomworks]

I like this turn of events! This is now fun.



You give your keys to the Porter
Will he run for the Border?
Angry man yelling at me.

Slamming doors really hard
Out here in the service yard
Don't be so angry, you freak.


Let me show you how to
shut the door with eaaaase..

*Chorus start
Can I touch your shiny Bronco?
Ok man, maybe noo-oot.
Oh hey Ford techs check this ouu-utt.
He won't let me touch his DOOOORRSS OOH AHH OOH

 

[Taltyman]

"This doesn't mean they were always treated well, and closing the "porter" era is perhaps a clean way of breaking ties with that old, problematic Jim Crow legacy."

Like taking Aunt Jemima off syrup bottles and renaming football teams. How has that worked out? Hmmm -- and "Bronco" is offensive to cowboys! Being a cowboy was hard dirty work, how offensive to name a car after a term associated with cowboys. We should start a new thread on renaming Bronco to something more PC for the times. How about -- darn can't say without getting banned.

broncobase lifetime ban

 

[indio22]

After reading through this thread, i'm going out of my way to touch every Bronco I see in the parking lot!

Or at least this:

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