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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!
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.
What kind of fast car are you getting for 1000 dollars?
A very rare Hot Wheels
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.
Driving the speed limit at all times regardless of mood. Because I value my safety as well as the one of others.
But what about the “I’m late for work” mood 😥
Don’t leave late. Lobby your politicians for sensible transport infrastructure (i.e. not just cars)
There is no excuse, but people normalise the hell out of it
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’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.
So many drivers don’t understand average speed. It’s ridiculous.
Me using my phone on the bus after a hard day, knowing I don’t have to pay attention to shit on the road: 😌
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.
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.)
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.
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 goodVery obviously wearing their seatbelt
Good call, I missed the grey on grey seatbelt. Edited my comment
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.
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.
They are filming/photographing with their right hand. The image is flipped. Or they are in the most American-looking town in England.
One crime at a time, save that crime for something good
“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.
At least where I’m at, I think it’s more dangerous to drive the speed limit on the highway than to go 10 over, just because of other drivers. Driving the speed limit makes many other drivers lose their goddamn minds and drive insanely unsafely just to get around me. It’s wild the things people will do just to get to their destination a minute or two faster.
I’m not responsible for other people’s anger issues. As long as people take this stance we will remain in the endless shitty cycle of people feeling like they have a good given right to drive 10+ over on any road, be it an interstate highway or a residential road where kids are playing.
I’m always afraid of getting rear ended if I get stuck behind someone. All it takes is two people late on the brakes to ruin my life. But of course I’ll try to plan ahead and pass safely instead of losing my mind.
I wish people wouldn’t do this. Even in the pouring rain with low visibility you’ll have some absolute bellend think it’s appropriate to be less than a car length behind you when you have nowhere to go and I’m sure as shit not going to drive unsafely just so they can get home 2 mins sooner. Wankers.
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.
No idea what this is supposed to represent
It’s literal rather than representative
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.
The size doesn’t matter when calculating per capita.
To provide even more context: the EU is about double the size of the US and still doesn’t have evil police.
Coughs(bullshit)…
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.
What’s the hurry? I left early, and sometimes I just like the quiet. These are signs of success not defeat.
