If you do it every time, you won’t forget when it’s important.
My friend complained that there is no reason to use turn signal to show me parking on the side of the remote road in the middle of the night. I just said “It’s a muscle memory”. Later he bought himself BMW and things came clear.
You never know if someone will be going wrong way down a one way street
I’ve seen my fair share of people driving the wrong way on one-way roads. Can’t rely on people following the rules.
You never fucking know, dude. Better to be safe than sorry. The other driver can be at fault and still leave you with a permanent disability.
Almost died once to a woman going 75 on the wrong side of the 4 lane divided road. I dodged her but she hit a car behind me. :/
Always. Look. Both. Ways.
One word: bicycles
Two words: electric scooters
You forgot dipshit drivers.
Three words: dip shit drivers.
Four words: I can’t spell well.
If someone is going the wrong way down a one-way, you really want to know about them.
It happens more often than you think.
It’s true, I don’t think very often.
Literally every day, multiple times per hour, at a one-way by my home.
I personally see it on my street once or twice a month, seems unlikely I’d happen to see it every time it happens
And the person doing that is a bad driver and/or has attention problems
I remember a vid of a cyclist going the wrong way down a 1 way street. Pedestrian didn’t look that way and bam. Guess who the cyclist blamed.
You should always be looking both ways, if not for vehicles, then at least for pedestrians who have no direction.
This is actually a good tool to explain the difference between those RPG stats that can be easy to mix up:
Perception is noticing you are crossing a one-way street.
Intelligence is understanding cars are only allowed to come from one direction.
Wisdom is looking in both directions before crossing anyway.
Yeah well looking the ‘wrong’ way on a 1 way street has stopped me from getting run over, and looking both ways before going on the green has saved my life from a red light runner when I was on my motorcycle.
The first year I got my license (15+ years ago) I looked one way then the other. Rolled forward. Hit a cyclist that was riding full speed on the sidewalk in the wrong direction. Bent front tire and they lost balance.
Got them to a bank and Throw them $200 money then made them sign a waiver of liability with no fault admitted. She didn’t like signing the paper and I told her $200 now and sign or go through my car insurance.
Worth the $200 to make it go away.
I always look both ways and glace down the damn sidewalk too for cyclists now.
on the sidewalk in the wrong direction.
There is no wrong direction on the sidewalk. Sidewalks are two-way.
Hey I’m a cyclist too and I agree. What i mean by wrong direction is against the flow of traffic. I looked right and saw nothing. Then left and rolled forward trying to get my chance to get into traffic. She came in front of me from the right.
Also that street has seperate two direction bike lanes.
Being in a situation where I was on the highway being passed by an on coming car on the same side… you ALWAYS look both ways. Stupidity has no bounds.
Pedestrians and cyclists exist. Even on 2-way roads I’ve personally almost been run over multiple times on the right side of the road. A vehicle would drive up to the stop sign, look left, see no vehicles, then almost hit me as they turned right because they didn’t actually look where they were going…
You have to look the other way anyway in case there might be pedestrians or cyclists crossing your path.
Or another car
Meanwhile:
Me crossing a 6 lane freeway.
How did you post image?
Lemmy uses markdown, so almost any “how” question can be answered by looking up “how to x in markdown.”
For example, the first DDG result for “how to post an image in markdown”: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/markdown-markdown-images
Thanks!
Any time I can spread the good word of markdown, I’m happy to do so.
By the way, I don’t know which ones, but many Lemmy clients have buttons to simplify common markdown (links and images are notoriously easy to mess up). On my client, Connect, there are a row of buttons below the text entry area to help with formatting and syntax. It’s also how I upload images if posting from my local client rather than somewhere already online.
I don’t know your client, but it might be worth checking whether these buttons exist for you so you don’t have to remember / look up the syntax.
PFM? Pure Fucking Magic. Dammit guess I will never know.
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