Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute?
Submitted 1 day ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Blackout@fedia.io 1 day ago
CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The old dude driving slow in the morning probably doesn’t want himself to be driving at rush hour, either. Maybe if we had some kind of system where professionals planned and implemented a ride sharing systems, perhaps with planned routes and really big cars that lots of people could sit in? Maybe we even put it on rails so it uses less energy while moving?
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
My country has this and better, no difference.
They also love shopping during the busiest times I’m the weekend. They just love wasting working people’s precious free time.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
nothing makes a tired annoyed version of me happier before dawn than going extra slow just to piss off the asshole riding my ass with LED headlights lighting up my whole cabin
Mickey7@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I usually just pull over when possible and let them get ahead of me. Not worth the drama.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 6 hours ago
I give them the chance to pass by moving all the way right in the lane and slowing down at passing opportunities. after a few missed opportunities, I’ll fuck with them for the entertainment.
but yes, not always worth it.
xeekei@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
While some people do tailgate people that go the normal speed, if you’re going “extra slow”, you’re the problem I’m afraid. 🤷🏻♂️
ebolapie@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
If you tailgate me I will slow down to give you the appropriate following distance. I do not want to be rear ended if I have to come to a sudden stop.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
give it another read, you have your order of events backwards
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You have no more right to use public roads than anyone else.
Azteh@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Correct, but if you can do shopping at any time, you should aspire to do it when there are as few people as possible. That goes for everyone and it also works for most non group activities, such as driving
Nolvamia@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
One of my favourite things about being retired is the ability to go to the shops in the middle of the day, when it’s quiet. No crowds. Parking. No rush. Bliss!
Smeagol666@crazypeople.online 18 hours ago
Having been a 2nd and 3rd shifter most of my adult life, I miss going shopping in the middle of the night when hardly anyone was there.
psoul@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Get rid of your car. Problem solved.
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Replaced with what? There’s no infrastructure here.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think we’re all shocked you’re not already retired, Mickey. ;)
Mickey7@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Always interesting on social media sites trying to guess if the poster is male/female and how old
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
What’s the Lemmy equivalent of driving around real slow?
Maybe posting 90s memes?
WanderWisley@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Retire? Fucking hilarious!
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
“I’ve done my shopping at 11 am on saturdays for the last 40 years and even though the shops are packed and the selection is poor, I’m not going to consider moving to 10 on Monday instead”
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 1 day ago
It’s tractors and some guy regularly riding a horse and cart round my way.
EditsHisComments@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Lmao sounds like where I grew up in Mississippi. Farmers everywhere, but quite a few Mennonites and Amish too
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t have any problem with someone driving under the speed limit as long its within the legal amount. My problem is buttplugs. Buttplugs are creatures who crawl up someones ass and refuse to pass. They prevent the people behind them from legally passing and just sit there for mile after mile.
A mutation of the buttplug is the plugipede. Where you have mulitple buttplugs all up each others ass and content to follow one another at less than two car lengths apart.
I never blame the guy going five under at the front.
yabai@lemmynsfw.com 3 hours ago
Not that it’s ever safe to follow so close, but there’s also the subset of slow drivers who camp the passing lanes and prevent passing from taking place. Regardless of how fast you drive, if someone is behind you, move to the outside to let them pass.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Yeah, they do that as well. On my daily commute there are two three lane passing lanes going either way. They will often do that as well. Most of my commute is on a two lane highway.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
butt plugs with LED headlights, no less
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s even worse on public transport. At least where I live. They have the whole day available but decide to use the buses between 7 and 9 in the morning and 15-17 afternoon when most people go to/from work/school
anti_antidote@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Perhaps public transit is there to help the public get around and you should be advocating for higher availability, not lower ridership
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
My issue is that they could literally take the bus 30 minutes later and be alone on the bus. It’s just fascinating that they use them at a time of highest ocupancy.
FireRetardant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Have you considersd that they may still be working due to poor wages and a lack of social safety nets?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Nope. Because they would not have the free red ticket
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Sure, but if they’re boomers and still couldn’t make it, I’m not sure what the issue was. The generation that took everything and then pulled the ladder up behind them should be stable in the modern day.
fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Major “Main Character Syndrome” vibes. Other people have their own lives and their own reasons, ya know?
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is it though? I am not saying they are not allowed to use them or anything. I just wonder why they use them when everyone else does as well. I have taken buses outside those times and not many retirees or old people take them. If I had the whole day I would probably not take the most crowded bus and take the one that is almost empty.
bobzer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
If I’m late to work I can’t pay their pension.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I just retired, and my wife still complains that I drive too fast. I’m joining a gym next week and getting back into writing and fermenting, and so won’t have much time to annoy Frank Freeway during his commute from hell.
Hapankaali@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I have never commuted by car, but I plan to get a car when I retire so I can drive around in the mornings.
adarza@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
a bunch of old geezers cruising the local ‘strip’ from 7-9am just like we used to back in high school at night on the weekends.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 day ago
And also ignore pedestrians, even though they just stared in my soul while waiting them to stop (but they just slowed down and didn’t stopped)
LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 1 day ago
Automobiles are a toy. If you’re an adult with actual responsibilities and you need to be somewhere on time, take the train.
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
The only train between my house and work is a cargo train and I don’t want to hitch a ride like a homeless dude trying to see the countryside (not to mention it takes over an hour to walk to anywhere near those tracks when it only takes 30 minutes to drive to work when traffic isn’t fucked).
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Used to
OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Everyone wants to say fuck cars but no one wants to be a civil engineer or whatever and build the public transport that would replace cars. So everyone in this thread should sit down unless they have real solutions. Listen, I hate cars and driving too, but I’m not taking 3 trains into town, totalling 3 hours. That’s not reasonable for a commute.