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I had such a rough day at work one day I drove across three states only to eat at a waffle house then turn around to drive back home.
“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.”
And on the wrong side of the car.
How to scroll way too far down to find this comment. ITT everyone is British
It do be like that sometimes
So you mean m-f then? Music is a luxury best reserved for weekends, that way I know work won’t interrupt my jam sesh
Me when I’m unwilling to lane change once on the freeway.
I also drive home at the speed limit after getting some a$$.
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!
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.
What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?
A very rare Hot Wheels
I wonder how much it would cost for you to wreck your car
Children’s toys are rarely $1000USD or are the size of most kids.
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? 🙃
Hell yes, fellow slow driver! It also saves fuel and car maintenance expenses.
Me using my phone on the bus after a hard day, knowing I don’t have to pay attention to shit on the road: 😌
Drive the speed limit at all times.
Else you’ll get a very hands-on introduction to the concepts of centrifugal force and static friction.
good luck doing that on British roads
edit: also, there isn’t a single road I can think of within hours of me where you cannot drive above the speed limit in regular conditions, excepting intersections. it’s just bad road design
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
Broke: driving the speed limit because you are tired.
Woke: driving the speed limit because you are a responsible citizen who wants to make the roads safer.
Bespoke: going the speed of traffic so the irresponsible citizens are also safe
Coke: Running the speed limit.
Coke: reinventing the speed limit by setting the example —like a squid from a slingshot.
Cruise control so handy.
Set to the speed limit and chill.
If people want to pass that’s their problem.
Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.
Not sure about the Hume since I haven’t driven it in years, but I regularly do the Western Highway, and WOW the fully loaded B-doubles are aggressive af. You could be going 20kmh about the limit and they’re still riding your ass. The only time they slow down is in the towns. There are way too many deaths on that highway.
I have been pretty lucky with the roos not jumping out in front of me, but I’ve had birds and emus. They are not fun.
I just pull off and let them go, but here in the New England they seem to be speed limited and rarely get above 105 so generally it’s only speed limited roadwork zones that they get hyper.
I prefer to sit on about 85 as I’m a bit older, and it saves a fair bit on fuel, but will do 100 if someone comes up behind and I can’t duck off. Just have to be a little more alert at that speed, watching for potholes etc. Watched too many avch videos hehe.
Mind you, in Australia the speed limit is usually followed pretty well.
That’s because Australia has realistic speed limits. The US doesn’t, and thats why people drive over it all the time.
I dunno man, 80+ mph on the highway doesn’t seem particularly necessary.
Speed limits go up to 130 (80mph) in Australia so seems like they think it’s OK.
130 is extremely rare. even 110 is very rare tbh (interstate type roads, and they can often be 100 too)… 80 is our common “fast” speed in metro areas
In Canada there is only one highway that I know of which allows up to 120km/h, the rest is 100km/h.
The only speeding ticket I have ever gotten in my life was going 130km/h on the 120km/hr highway.
Most of the 402 and recently parts of the 403 have been changed to 110km/h in Ontario. These are long stretches with no cities nearby.
In Western Australia generally its 110 between towns/cities (most common ‘country driving’ speed), 100 for freeways in the city, 70 for most roads between suburbs and 50 for residential or built up areas.
Yeah, but those highways have like 5 cars and 10 trucks per hour (if that) and none of them are within 1000km from 99% of the population. Slight hyperbole, but they are genuinely only in the deep rural areas. 260k people in 1.4m square kilometres. Every where else top speed is 110, which is between city highways in good condition for the most part.
I envy that you have a life where you can use cruise control when you are in your vehicle.
If I am in my vehicle it is usually to go to work, which means crowded highways and people who cut me off or can’t maintain their speed worth a damn so if I use cruise control it’s only for like 5 seconds before I either have to hit the brakes move into another lane.
Yes I’m lucky to live in a rural area. I can’t always use it as there are hills on some of the roads, and the cruise control will downshift and cane it up the hills which feels mean, but the main highway is mostly fine.
I’ve never had a car with adaptive cruise control though, which it sounds like you would need. (Follow the speed of the car in front.)
Sometimes calm driving can lead to a calm mind.
And open all the windows sometimes!
And open all the windows sometimes!
^ This … it lets all the pot smoke out, too.
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.
It’s not possible in BMW
