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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
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
I don’t think people would have a problem with driving a fast car either, you enjoy what you enjoy. Just respect the limit and the lives of others around you. Or go crazy on a circuit.
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.
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?
So many drivers don’t understand average speed. It’s ridiculous.
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.
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’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.
One crime at a time, save that crime for something good
Me using my phone on the bus after a hard day, knowing I don’t have to pay attention to shit on the road: 😌
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?
“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.”
No idea what this is supposed to represent
It’s already pretty self-explanatory, what specifically don’t you get?
On one hand, I think speeding is wrong, but on the other am I happy that these people help finance police operations.
(If you drive over the limit in Switzerland, you will get caught and you will pay and also the police are not evil (at least from what I’ve heard))
Switzerland is also roughly 238x smaller than the U.S. Closest state would be Maryland, which is small.
Just providing context.
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.
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.
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 goodAlso 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.
They are filming/photographing with their right hand. The image is flipped. Or they are in the most American-looking town in England.
Is 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.
Many days lately have been like this.
Speed limit of the street or speed limit of the car?
It’s not possible in BMW
And on the wrong side of the car.
How to scroll way too far down to find this comment. ITT everyone is British
