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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Gotta look both ways when you have a green light at an intersection too.

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  • Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This. I do this and it has saved me from folks who said “fuck it.” And ran the red.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      My brother might be coming the other way! 

      (It is gratifying that if you do a DDG search for this phrase, the top result is a video of someone running a red light.)

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  • makyo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah where I live there is this funny obsession with waiting for the walk light and soo many people just step out without looking. Meanwhile you will often literally get people grumbling at you if you walk on a red no matter how clear the street is.

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• cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way.

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  • Banana@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not about who’s right, it’s abouy who’s left

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    • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      same as in politics

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I tell my kid “Even if you’re right, you still get the wheelchair. Don’t trust people pay attention.”

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Great for organ donors though.

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• deacon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is false equivalency. It is always strictly necessary to punch nazis.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • deacon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You know what, you’re right.

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• endless_nameless@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  We look both ways no matter what because that’s the protocol and the protocol keeps us safe. If you believe it’s safe to deviate from the protocol, you’re opening up a chance to be wrong. It’s that simple.

  My chemistry teacher told us this when we were first handling dangerous chemicals and it’s stuck with me ever since.

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• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Defensive driving is for pedestrians too

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• Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Obligatory Limmy’s Show

  youtu.be/LW7Iv-V1-Jo

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• gigastasio@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me: at a stop sign waiting for a car to pass before I turn right

  Passenger: “You can go. He has his turn signal on.”

  Car: zooms past at full speed without turning

  Me:

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Never take a passengers advice.

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• AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Have you been to Italy? I do this on every street because there is a serious chance of finding a bike, or electric scooter or even moped going the wrong way. 

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  • Skullgrid@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I visited Italy.

    I had no idea that mario kart was a documentary. I never get carsick, but after travelling for 24 hours, let me tell you, I got carsick. I didn’t get carsick traveling that far before either.

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  • treesapx@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I got a driver from the airport to my hotel in Rome. I decided that in Rome you’re allowed to break one law at a time while driving. So you could drive on the wrong side of the road but you still had to respect that red traffic light unless you got back onto the right side of traffic.

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• punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As a forced pedestrian (can’t drive due to health issues), this is so true. Also at crosswalks, a lot of drivers turning right while looking left. They always appear genuinely SHOCKED to encounter “a walker.” Like, “A PERSON…? NOT IN A… CAR?? IS THAT POSSIBLE?” Like it shatters their entire concept of the universe and how things work. Yes, I live in America, and this happens in both suburbs and downtown DC.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    part of why i use a mobility device is that i can use it to bang on vehicles and alert them of my presence without kicking/hitting it with my bones, in sitiations just like you describe. a sock full of pool balls would also work.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  gonna be honest, emergencies happen.

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• wjrii@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I just can’t remember which country I’m in sometimes.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yep, one of the worst crashes I’ve ever had to work, was a wrong way car that hit 2 bicycles that didn’t look. Each bicycle had a parent and a child on board. All sustained very serious injuries. It was a true definition of “blood bath”.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not sure it was necessary for you to bathe in their blood.

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    • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Well, kinda necessary, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to render care very well.

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• TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You joke, but I was talking to a friend about this just a few weeks ago. I always check both ways on one-way streets after almost getting struck by a taxi reversing at 50 km/h while I was crossing in front of a hotel, and coming within 1 ft. of crippling me. Never trust the signage, never trust the cars.

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• elvith@feddit.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even if you look both ways, you can still get killed by a falling flower pot, because you didn’t look up.

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh no, not again.

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And even then there are uncovered manholes.

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• potustheplant@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Can’t believe no one mentioned Limmy yet.

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    For a second I hella thought he was gonna have more song there 🤣

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• artifex@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Faith in humanity or not, everyone makes mistakes. Look both ways, kids.

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• Pirasp@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most one way streets do not apply do bikes, so looking both ways is advisable

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  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I don’t know where you live but where I do all traffic laws apply to bicycles too.

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    • DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’ve been to a lot of countries that had exceptions for bikes. But most of the time there is a special sign that allows them to enter a one way street from the other side.

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  • ekky@sopuli.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And even when they apply to bikes, they don “apply” to most bikes anyway.

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• jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    oh sorry. try this one:

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• zewm@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I literally do this.

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• amlor@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not just lack pf faith, but past experience

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is it because you can’t afford to pay attention?

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• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hey bike riders and scooter riders who use the wrong way to go down the street, I do not look both ways when backing out of the building driveway. Be aware.

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  • thebazman@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And pedestrians on the sidewalk…? I hope theres no sidewalk on your side of the street. Either way extremely bad take

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    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I check the sidewalk, lol

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• robocall@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Check the road left, right, left.

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