Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way.
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cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 month ago
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I tell my kid “Even if you’re right, you still get the wheelchair. Don’t trust people pay attention.”
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Great for organ donors though.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social 1 month 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.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
treesapx@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
deacon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is false equivalency. It is always strictly necessary to punch nazis.
deacon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know what, you’re right.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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:
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Never take a passengers advice.
punkwalrus@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
wewbull@feddit.uk 1 month ago
I just can’t remember which country I’m in sometimes.
artifex@piefed.social 1 month ago
Faith in humanity or not, everyone makes mistakes. Look both ways, kids.
rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Defensive driving is for pedestrians too
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month 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”.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not sure it was necessary for you to bathe in their blood.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, kinda necessary, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to render care very well.
elvith@feddit.org 1 month ago
Even if you look both ways, you can still get killed by a falling flower pot, because you didn’t look up.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh no, not again.
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And even then there are uncovered manholes.
Pirasp@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Most one way streets do not apply do bikes, so looking both ways is advisable
sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I don’t know where you live but where I do all traffic laws apply to bicycles too.
DownByLaw@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
ekky@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
And even when they apply to bikes, they don “apply” to most bikes anyway.
endless_nameless@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 month 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.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
gonna be honest, emergencies happen.
potustheplant@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 month ago
For a second I hella thought he was gonna have more song there 🤣
zewm@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I literally do this.
amlor@piefed.social 1 month ago
Not just lack pf faith, but past experience
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Lemmy.zip image proxy fails again.
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gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Thanks, I wonder why that one works. It appears to be going through the image proxy too. I figured you were direct linking or something. Weird.
Was mainly trying to call out the .zip admins. I see these image proxy issues regularly.
Zombie@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Obligatory Limmy’s Show
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me only looking one way because my finances are a wreck
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is it because you can’t afford to pay attention?
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month 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.
thebazman@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
And pedestrians on the sidewalk…? I hope theres no sidewalk on your side of the street. Either way extremely bad take
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I check the sidewalk, lol
robocall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Check the road left, right, left.
dan1101@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Gotta look both ways when you have a green light at an intersection too.
Salamanderwizard@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This. I do this and it has saved me from folks who said “fuck it.” And ran the red.
toynbee@piefed.social 1 month 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.)
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 weeks ago
This saved my mom just the other day. She sat for an extra second at a green, and the car behind her whipped around to pass her. That car almost got t-boned by the fucking bus that ran the red light. If she had gone as soon as the light turned green, she would have been directly in front of the bus. But she noticed the bus wasn’t slowing down at all, so she waited.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Yeah, I never trust that incoming traffic will stop and always make sure they actually are before proceeding.
makyo@lemmy.world 1 month 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.