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I drive like an old bitch.
I ain’t got ticket money. You’ll find me in the right lane. Running the speed limit. Like an old bitch.
Same
I mean, I could afford the ticket, but I’d rather spend that money on LEGO
Friend of mine just told me about a new 9000 piece death star. Gonna cost like $1000.
He’s already planning for it around his yearly bonus at work.
My wife wants me to buy it for our wedding anniversary next month
Broke: My wife doesnt let me buy legos
WBroke: My wife demands I buy legos
This should be a bumper sticker
Hmmm, sitting quietly, assembling a child’s toy from an instruction sheet and spending $1000 for the privilege, or driving a fast car…
Wow that’s a tough one!
Edit: oh yummy down votes, they taste so good, tears of the manchild!
Children’s toys are rarely $1000USD or are the size of most kids.
I wonder how much it would cost for you to wreck your car
What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?
A very rare Hot Wheels
Hell yes, fellow slow driver! It also saves fuel and car maintenance expenses.
I sold cars for a while. When you sell cars the company’s insurance typically requires the dealer to make sure everyone has a clean recent driving record. That means no speeding or bs of any kind.
Ok? 🙃
normalize avoiding vehicular homicide
It’s disturbing how normalized speeding is. It goes beyond normalization. I’ve had people get furious with me, flip me off, tailgate me aggressively and literally try to run me off the road for driving the speed limit.
It’s especially stupid in the city. People get all pissed at me for driving the speed limit and maneuver recklessly around me before speeding off, only to get stuck at the red light a block ahead. I could feel smug as I pulled up beside them a moment later, that is if it weren’t for the disappointment and frustration I feel with how stupid people are behind the wheel of these speeding death machines.
I can’t think of any other law we have where a significant proportion of society seems to be actively hostile towards those who care to abide. Why do we accept this as a society?
I’m a bike commuter and it’s this by a lot. I’ve had assholes swerve into the bike lane because they’re salty I’m not traffic like they are, and punish passes are ridiculous. Dude, I’m doing 20 on my ebike, the speed limit is 20, you’re an asshole.
It’s ridiculous how acceptable people think it is.
I have someone I work with that seems to think the faster he goes the more important and busy he is, therefore he can treat everyone else on the road that follows the rules like they are just retired old geezers with nothing better to do.
It’s infuriating. There is nothing I hate more than people with no patience or ability to plan ahead and leave at appropriate times.
I have lived in places where the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road’s engineering and surrounding environment, consistently. Consequently, there is truly no one during busy times doing the speed limit.
This gives police the ability to pull over anyone, at their discretion, with direct legal cause (not even the “immune from consequences in practice” kind). Even driving the speed limit creates a hazard and merits intervention according to the law.
The place I’m describing was very racist, driving while black was absolutely unofficially illegal, and this lets cops pick and choose in all the worst ways.
Be deeply suspicious of any law that is routinely broken by everyone for years with no change - it is to allow arbitrary, bigoted enforcement.
the speed limit is very obviously around 10 mph too low for the road’s engineering and surrounding environment
How does that work? Like, even on the broadest highway I could drive 5 mph without my car or the highway taking damage from it?!
Most drivers with experience can tell by how a road is constructed (materials, bank angles on curves, etc.) roughly how fast they can safely go, and there’s a subconscious mental tug to get up to that speed. Whether you personally are impacted by that or not, it’s a well-known phenomena.
When everyone on the road, most far less thoughtful than yourself, are experiencing that mental tug, traffic moves naturally faster than the posted speed. And then that gives probable cause for our racist police to pick and choose who to fuck up.
I’m a school bus driver and I obey speed limits religiously (and somehow I’m almost alone in this among my coworkers despite the fact that our buses all have GPS monitors installed and our boss can see exactly how fast we’re going at all times). Almost every day I have people behind me blasting their horns at me for this. Like, just imagine getting road rage at a fucking school bus driver.
My favorite thing is when they tailgate me, apparently oblivious to the fact that I can’t see them at all when they do this, not even in my mirrors.
Yeah we are not a culture that can have cars safely.
cant think of another
Say ‘genocide bad’ in public. I dare you.
it’s been a hard day making TikTok posts so I’m gonna drive around in my luxury car
without my seatbelt onand film with my left hand and maybe probably not hit anyone while I check if the angle looks goodIs there a point to all this judgment or…?
Oh no! The economic reality for young people requires them to sell themselves as influencers to make a living because we don’t have actual, useful employment any more. Better make sure I cast my judgment on those who found some modicum of success doing so, so that the world and I know that I’m better than them! /s
I don’t care what anybody does to make money unless it puts someone else at risk. A car is a method of transportation, but more importantly, a weapon. Focusing on getting the right angle or right clip or whatever for your meme puts other people at risk as you control a 5500 pound piece of metal. My criticism is on the choice of using a moving vehicle as a recording studio.
You flubbed the seatbelt & cam hand, but didn’t even mention the stupidly low seat that decreases visibility over their dash and, by extension, the hood & front of the vehicle.
Just sayin’. We should all be more aware of this too-often lethal geometry born of “cool” laziness. 🥲
They are filming/photographing with their right hand. The image is flipped. Or they are in the most American-looking town in England.
Also no way could they be filming with their left hand, the angle is way off unless they’re holding a stick or tripod. It looks like someone in the passenger seat is filming.
Me with a 30 second commute from my desk to my bed:
:( -> :)
30s commute? You live in a mansion or what?
Apartment?
“when things are so bad you start obeying traffic laws as if you give a shit whether or not you’d kill some kid today.”
I’ve been driving Uber for awhile and I adopted grandma driving for my own sanity/safety.
Had an interesting chat with a chill taxi driver about this. He’d been in the business almost 30 years and says he sees people who don’t adopt this philosophy actually have health issues, and quit.
And on the wrong side of the car.
How to scroll way too far down to find this comment. ITT everyone is British
One crime at a time, save that crime for something good
No idea what this is supposed to represent
It’s already pretty self-explanatory, what specifically don’t you get?
It’s literal rather than representative
Sometimes calm driving can lead to a calm mind.
And open all the windows sometimes!
PSA: Don’t open windows on busy roads. Let’s in a bunch of pollutants like rubber and metal particles from tires
If it’s a place you’d voluntarily have a picnic nearby, feel free to open windows
Yeah I wanted to say something specific about not doing it in the city center, or do it when you’re driving past fields and trees. But I kept thinking of bumming out all the folks that probably don’t have such a resource available.
It’s just one of those things I am lucky to have available, so I intentionally make use of it. I don’t even have to work in the office every day, but it’s a nice office and my very short commute has the option of being about 2/3 on a twisty country road. So it helps get me out of the house and/or awake sometimes.
Oh and back to your PSA: if you are in heavy traffic and exhaust is an even bigger issue than debris particles, remember the air recirculate function on your AC.
If your option is tell the truth or be a “bummer” then your only being an ass by lying to save others from reality.
Shit sucks but it never gets better if we hide reality away and never speak of it.
It only takes one right person to be bummed out to start a cascade effect that might create meaningful change. Never murder hope before it has a chance to even be born. Even if that means being a “bummer”.
I started reading your comment here and formulating a reply in my head about how I was just limiting the scope of my comment and not lying and telling people to cast off responsibility and let Jesus take the wheel, etc.
But then your third paragraph is SO on point that I withdraw any resistance to your message.
And open all the windows sometimes!
^ This … it lets all the pot smoke out, too.
Speed limit of the street or speed limit of the car?
Many days lately have been like this.
It’s not possible in BMW
Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I’m here like… Yeah, that be my day most days.
We’ve normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go “oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z” and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.
Yay?
