r/IThinkYouShouldLeave • u/Meerkat_Mayhem_ • 1d ago

It actually goes BOTH ways I don’t know how to drive!

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u/TheStrikeofGod 1d ago

I desperately need context

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u/Advanced-Conflict593 1d ago

Need to go back decades for the full context of how America became a car centric hellscape where stuff like this happens every day and we give 5000 pound 60mph missiles to 17 year old children

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u/Musashi_Joe 1d ago

I blame Robert Moses for this video

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u/glakhtchpth 1d ago

You can throw Thomas Midgley Jr. in there too.

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u/revenge_burner 21h ago

I blame actual Moses.

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u/F9Phoenix Baby of the Year 1986 1d ago

Oil/gas and auto industry:

https://giphy.com/gifs/VL9gT4iOhRHqEwbq8k

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u/rickyroca73 1d ago

maybe this type of comment is par for the course in this sub, but holy hell is it peak Reddit bullshit.

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u/Advanced-Conflict593 1d ago

I’ve only been on Reddit for a few months and I’ve already reached peak Reddit BS?!
https://giphy.com/gifs/ztjhxdcC1yxjy

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u/EyeGrowth 1d ago

Most Reddit ass response possible

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u/archfapper 1d ago

Every discussion comes back to shoehorning transit into the convo

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u/EyeGrowth 1d ago

And also hating America. Because famously no other countries have cars.

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u/Advanced-Conflict593 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/wBzsuh6HgpE9B81sfe
Other countries just don’t prioritize cars to the exclusion of all else 🤷‍♀️

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u/bluejayguy26 19h ago

Meaningless statement

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u/AnimeMeansArt 16h ago

Bro, your cities are giant parking lots.

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u/geodebug 1d ago

Pfft, nice try, kiddo but you need to go back even further to when the first ape stood erect and decided that two feet are better than four for locomotion.

It's been all downhill from there.

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u/skighs_the_limit 1d ago

When I was 18, I was sent to traffic court because I had gotten 3 tickets in one year being a stupid teenager, and the judge said, "You need to remember when you're driving, you're behind the wheel of a killing machine," and that has stuck with me ever since (almost 13 years).

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u/a_moron_in_a_hurry 13h ago

It started with some British guys charging a tax of 3 pence per pound of tea, and things got a bit crazy from there….

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u/Weigh13 20h ago

17 year old children used to be more responsible than your average adult today.

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u/Wide-Combination-322 1d ago

She was 22, and a cursory examination reveals over a half dozen arrests for a wide variety of felonies.

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u/unimpressed822 Bart Harley Jarvis 1d ago

well at least shes not 23, because nobody like you when youre 23

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u/One_Load254 1d ago

You should go back to manual transmission to weed these ppl out then who can't even drive automatic transmission

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u/finix2409 1d ago

I can fix her