I had to drive to and from an appointment twice today (drop off and pick up)(not a school) and I faced like… A dozen moments of aggression from other drivers. From being cut off, to being blocked from merging. Some dangerous, others harmless. Just a dozen pointless but intentionally rude moments. Usually I’m getting tailed on the road by huge trucks with bright lights, but today I was spared from that, so that’s kne thing to be grateful for. Fuck cars. I’m so done with driving, I haven’t been doing it for a decade yet and I’m exhausted with it.

  • Facebones@reddthat.com
    11·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t driven for a few years now, drove to Charlotte for a friend and ughhhh. Gimme more Amtrak damnit

      • Facebones@reddthat.com
        10·
        1 year ago

        Not by choice 😂 I’m lucky to be retired early and have a bus system that gets me where I need to go. I’ll get another car when I can but I plan to still bus around for some stuff if I do.

        We recently got amtrak back where I live, booked ahead of time (prices increase as the train fills up) I can DC for $30 round trip and nyc for $60 round trip. On my last nyc trip coming back, I was set up in the Cafe car on my laptop and chatting with people - one by one 3 of us busted our respective liquors out offering them around and made a party of it.

        Can’t do that on the highway 🤷

      • Pablo M.U. :vericol:@col.social
        3·
        1 year ago

        @Franzia @Facebones I have only driven three times in the past 13 years. It’s one of the benefits of having lived in cities where you don’t need a car to survive (Bogotá, Colombia; Genoa, Italy; and NYC). I wish your city can become like this soon, and you don’t have to drive ever again!

  • handofdumb@lemm.ee
    8·
    1 year ago

    Yikesaroni! Congrats on making it through.

    I drive as little as I can these days, but I used to drive a lot in Chicago. Talk about aggression! It’s like a game everyone is playing and you get points by being the biggest asshole who.

    I live in Portland now and driving here for the first time was a real eye-opener. Still terrible in it’s own ways! But at least the drivers seem to want to cooperate for safe trips all around, for the most part.

    Fuck cars.

    • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      3·
      1 year ago

      Oh wow! I wouldnt have guessed Portland would be any safer to drive than anywhere else, despite its reputation for being unique at… Well literally everything else. 😅

  • TacoEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    A lot of drivers have gotten way worse and more aggressive since the pandemic in my area. A lot of it, is people moving out of the city into the suburbs and bringing their toxic driving with them

  • OrderedChaos@lemmy.world
    2·
    1 year ago

    I am tired of the rush rush rush everyone is feeling and pushing onto others. Leave with sufficient time and then go the speed limit. You get there when you get there. If there are delays you should have a backup route planned if you have an important meeting or deadline. Give plenty of room in case the car in front of you needs to stop. I sometimes get pushed through a red light because someone is tailgating me. One time there was a truck pulling a trailer behind me. I had plenty of time to stop but they didn’t. I ended up going into the intersection to avoid getting rear ended and had to drive into opposing traffic on the other side before moving back onto the right side of the road. I’ve gone through it so many times in my head and the only solution was to not stop and run the red light. This should never happen. People do not treat stale green lights as something that can potentially change and they don’t prepare for it.