Do you have to deal with this during your morning commute?

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• Blackout@fedia.io ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  big dreamer

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• psoul@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Get rid of your car. Problem solved.

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• CombatWombatEsq@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨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

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    I usually just pull over when possible and let them get ahead of me. Not worth the drama.

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  • xeekei@lemmy.zip ⁨10⁩ ⁨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. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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    • ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      give it another read, you have your order of events backwards

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• Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You have no more right to use public roads than anyone else.

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  • Azteh@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨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

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    • Nolvamia@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨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!

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    • Smeagol666@crazypeople.online ⁨11⁩ ⁨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.

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• ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think we’re all shocked you’re not already retired, Mickey. ;)

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  • Mickey7@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Always interesting on social media sites trying to guess if the poster is male/female and how old

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    • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      What’s the Lemmy equivalent of driving around real slow?

      Maybe posting 90s memes?

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• WanderWisley@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Retire? Fucking hilarious!

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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”

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s tractors and some guy regularly riding a horse and cart round my way.

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  • EditsHisComments@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Lmao sounds like where I grew up in Mississippi. Farmers everywhere, but quite a few Mennonites and Amish too

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• Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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  • anti_antidote@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Perhaps public transit is there to help the public get around and you should be advocating for higher availability, not lower ridership

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • FireRetardant@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you considersd that they may still be working due to poor wages and a lack of social safety nets?

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Nope. Because they would not have the free red ticket

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    • THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • fletcher_bosom@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Major “Main Character Syndrome” vibes. Other people have their own lives and their own reasons, ya know?

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    • Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • bobzer@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If I’m late to work I can’t pay their pension.

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    butt plugs with LED headlights, no less

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• SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• 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)

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• Hapankaali@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Automobiles are a toy. If you’re an adult with actual responsibilities and you need to be somewhere on time, take the train.

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  • Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨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).

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Used to

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