• Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Facts right there

    Especially with the recent ice storm

    People in brand new $90k+ vehicles tailgating my 17 year old Kia like it’ll make me go faster

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    Not all Hyundais (or older cars) are the same. I get the spirit, but while my 17 year old Santa Fe has a lot of miles on it, I’d rather the assholes just stay away so I don’t have to go through the experience of a wreck, insurance, and possible new car payments on a newer vehicle that I have to relearn all the quirks. So I let the idiots fight each other and watch from afar as much as possible, which includes being a “beta” driver. But that’s what they taught us, right? Defensive driving?

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    Then they’ll block your road, get out of their fancy car and assault you for hitting that precious car.

    I was on a bike path when a car driver cut me while exiting a driveway and I bumped my wheel into his back bumper. Well, he stopped, got out of his car, whined that I didn’t do “my” stop and ended up slapping me twice in the face… because he cut me and I bumped into his car…

    So even if you have an old car AND it’s not your fault, they’l still be mad at you for existing and being in their way.

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      Some drunken redneck rear ended me once then got out and sucker punched me in the head. It wasn’t two seconds later my knee was on his throat. Some people just need some sense beaten into them.

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    Yeah not my proudest moments but whenever a douchenozzle zooms up behind me as I’m just getting around someone in the fast lane and I flip my blinker on to move back into the slow lane and I see the asshat darting into the slow lane to go around me I just keep moving over.

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      That’s the right thing to do though. You’re indicating switching lanes, finished passing, and they’re in the fast lane. I just assume they need to pull off at the next exit and ignore it.

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    I’ve noticed significantly less tailgating ever since my rear bumper and trunk were damaged from a dumb bitch that rear ended me last month.

    I’d leave it as is… but, it’s pretty ugly. I want my baby back in shape.

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      I know what you mean, my paint job has degraded due to sun damage and the cars general value being worth less than a paint job. So I might as well hold out buying a new car as long as humanly possible. 😣 The cars lasted over 20+ years, so I suppose it’s a win.

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      Maybe it’s worth to get everything fixed but slapping a painted damage on the bumper to deter the racers. But then it will look ugly again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Just beware.

    I got rear ended last spring.

    While stopped.

    At a red light.

    This entirely not my fault incident, paid for entirely by the other party’s insurance, was rewarded with a thirty percent increase in insurance premiums come renewal time.

    You

    Can

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    Win

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      My brother’s car got sideswiped parked on the street, there was full CCTV footage of the vehicle registration which did it.

      Although it was an open and closed case he was left without a car for 7 days, had to pay taxi to get to work, spent 2 months with a shitty courtesy car worth 20% of his actual car. Car finally returned and there are rattles and doors don’t close properly.

      You

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    I drove a 14 year old Hyundai and I would drive aggressively because I could play the game of “who cares more about their car”, I would never lose.

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        Did you think it wasn’t a real word and google it?

        I live in the hope you did.

        Not today Lemmy grammar Nazis…not today.

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          A true grammar Nazi would obviously know that it is a proper contraction. No true Scotsman and all that ;P

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          I didn’t, I know it’s a word in British English, I just wanted to say it’s rare and I haven’t seen anyone say it on the internet

          Also yeah, I’m not a native language speaker

          (And what do you mean by the nazi part? Why would you call anyone a nazi over something like a word?)

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            Grammar Nazi is an english term that means someone who is very strict about using correct words and punctuation.

            It is meant to be humorous. It does not mean they are a Nazi.

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              Ah sorry then, I didn’t quite get that (as said I’m not a native), just wanted to point out a fun coincidence since we learnt that word a few months back in English class

              Thanks for telling me

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            similarly shan’t became a go-to-word among my clique in high school once we learned it.

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    When I didn’t have health insurance and needed a cane to walk I would play this game with shitheads that drove up into the crosswalk. Do it, mfer, my spine is more expensive than your car.

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      Oh sweet summer child.

      Someone smashes up your beemer and you have to fix it or lose all its value. That single accident dings its resale value.

      Someone smashes up my shitbox and I pocket the damage estimate.

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      I often wonder how many people self incriminate with a dash cam.

      You only ever hear about people catching others with a dash cam lol.

      I bet people hide it when they’re at fault

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        Back when I used to visit the roadcam subreddit you’d regularly see people either posting incidents where they were at fault. Those were always fun threads. The other thing I saw a lot was scammers massively speeding and denying it in the comments after someone calculates their speed from the video.

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    I drive an old Toyota pickup with almost nothing still attached in the factory way, I doubt I’d even notice if someone hit me.

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      I miss my '87 yota… 2WD long box, 5 speed hooked up to a 22r. Hands down the best $400 I ever spent honestly. It was fully painted in bed liner and had two different side mirrors, one of which disappeared while parked at a friend’s house over night, and a rusting box patched with spray foam (which always had moss growing out of it, no matter how much I cleaned or cut away). Sad times:

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    First time I heard this theory was in a James Bond story. Bond meets a woman who drives a bashed up car. Same reasoning; if it looks like she’s dangerous people will steer clear of her.