• saltesc@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I think it’s more like 5% are so bad, it’s enough to muddle over the average and make the average feel divine. I notice really good drivers almost as often and they’re a pleasure to be behind on a long drive.

    • It only takes one bad driver to seriously mess up traffic is the reason tbh.

      You can unironically have 100 people be perfectly coordinated at driving. One person decides to just be a dick at driving and it’ll have a ripple effect where all 100 people in a row suddenly lose coordination due to having to make rapid adjustments for dick driver

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    6 months ago

    This summer, my car wasn’t worth repairing anymore and I decided to try living without one for a while.

    And well, as it turns out…

    me going on a stupid little daily walk for my stupid physical and mental health

    …does actually work wonders. I just had to be forced to do it consistently.

    Except I completely missed another factor:
    Christmas Eve rolled around, my dad picked me up from the train station. It was just a ten minute drive home, but of course, some asshat had to tailgate us. My dad pretty much just routinely became angry.

    Which I get. That shit used to stress me out, too.
    But well, used to. I had not experienced that level of stress for multiple months. I felt like some monk, checking in on what the normal people were dealing with.

    And man, I did not like what I saw…