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Men_in_Boxes

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I grew up on a road similar to this (though the grass is paved). This means we parked our cars a couple feet away from the white line. This makes unloading groceries, loading up the car etc a little scary because you often have to stand/walk in the two feet of space between the white line and your vehicle.

The road (35mph) I used to live on is not busy (1 - 2 cars pass every minute) and the sight lines are great (very little curvature to the road).

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What the **** is up with people who drive 2,000+ lb vehicles and act like putting their tires on the yellow median is just as bad as squishing human being against a parked car?! I swear to God 80% of human beings are autistic and worship that f***ing yellow line like psychopaths.

Do you also worship that double yellow line or are do you place a hire value on human life and get your car in the middle of the road?!

PS: The only people who semi regularly pass this decent human being test is truck guy. Truck guy is not to be confused with anyone driving a new truck, with the upgraded interior package, and has a car wash membership. That's fake truck guy and that person will squish you.
 
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Double yellows mean 'Can't park there, mate' over here.

Of course, bossman outside the 'World MiniMart' or chicken shop don't care bout dat.

Yet I park well beyond one for 10 minutes and get caught.
 
When I drive down the road I pretend that I'm Barack Obama and can order a drone strike on idiot drivers simply by pointing my finger at them and muttering, "unlawful combatant."

I hope that answers your question.
 
We have a traffic island out the front of our place. One lane one way, one lane the other. No chance of crossing the traffic island.
Good visibility everywhere.

We don't have a lot of room, so very occasionally if we're getting work done or getting deliveries, sometimes we have to temporarily impede on the lane on our side. The guy across the road occasionally does the same.
Normal thinking people just sensibly drive the clear side.
NPC's on auto-pilot though.... They just sit there gesturing for us to get out of the way as if the other side is made of lava. smh.
One woman in a BMW just sat there blaring the horn. lol.
 
Marathon really fried your brain. You went from trying to change the rules of a game to offset your lack of skill to trying to rewrite traffic code because you have trouble following them.
 
So wait, are you talking about when you need to go around something? Of course I'll go over the yellow if I need to. I'll even pass on a double yellow in the country if I know I have the distance
 
Cops are dickish about crossing the double yellow, but on a 2-lane road, all sorts of shit could be on the shoulder that you need to avoid. As long as it's not a curve I don't see whats wrong with crossing it when you need to.
 
You didn't have a driveway, garage, or even more space away from the road where you could park? Nobody around here parks that close to a road like that.
 
FMN said:
You didn't have a driveway, garage, or even more space away from the road where you could park? Nobody around here parks that close to a road like that.
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Irrelevant!

You either value the safety of other humans by giving them a decent amount of space or you have sociopathic autism.

There is no middle ground.
 
If there's someone doing their thing, you slow down a bit and look to see if there's someone coming the other way, and if there's not, you go in the middle a bit. If there is someone coming, you stop and wait. If there's an incline and then a drop off a little way ahead that can be a problem :lollipop_anxious_sweat:.

In a blizzard in the countryside the yellow line doesn't exist and everyone drives in the middle until they see lights coming.
 
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uncreativename said:
If there's someone doing their thing, you slow down a bit and look to see if there's someone coming the other way, and if there's not, you go in the middle a bit. If there is someone coming, you stop and wait. If there's an incline and then a drop off a little way ahead that can be a problem :lollipop_anxious_sweat:.

In a blizzard in the countryside the yellow line doesn't exist and everyone drives in the middle until they see lights coming.
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Is it a country people understand common sense and city people are conditioned to live in cages kind of thing? I honestly have no idea why people deify those center lines. It feels like I'm in The Truman Show Got Damn!
 
Reading this thread is annoying because I end up paying higher insurance to protect me from you. Rules only work if everyone follows them and I get it if the roads empty or something but the daily disregard I see is fucking annoying lmao
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
Is it a country people understand common sense and city people are conditioned to live in cages kind of thing? I honestly have no idea why people deify those center lines. It feels like I'm in The Truman Show Got Damn!
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I am city people but everything's far apart in Canada so sometimes you still end up driving in the middle of nowhere in a blizzard :pie_open_mouth:.
 
Why do you park 2 feet away from the white line? Why can't you park closer or even put 2 wheels over it while you unload the car? That would mean that people wouldn't have to completely cross the yellow lines to get past you. Or are you an autistic sociopath that likes to force others to break the law?
 
TheUnicornGuy said:
Why do you park 2 feet away from the white line? Why can't you park closer or even put 2 wheels over it while you unload the car? That would mean that people wouldn't have to completely cross the yellow lines to get past you. Or are you an autistic sociopath that likes to force others to break the law?
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It doesn't matter.

If the shoulder is narrow, the driver should give the pedestrian a comfortable amount of room as they drive by (as long as it's safe). F*ck that yellow line. It isn't going to suck your ****.
 
Sure, go ahead and ignore the double yellow because you're "built different".

The funeral home will have to take your unique composition into account when they're putting you back together.
 
Grildon Tundy said:
Sure, go ahead and ignore the double yellow because you're "built different".

The funeral home will have to take your unique composition into account when they're putting you back together.
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Reminder: Crossing the double yellow line does not cause you to explode.

Also, the direct middle of the road is the safest place to be as it gives you equal safe cushion from surprises on the left and right.
 
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Men_in_Boxes said:
Reminder: Crossing the double yellow line does not cause you to explode.

Also, the direct middle of the road is the safest place to be as it gives you equal safe cushion from surprises on the left and right.
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I disagree when the situation involves passing another car at speed into head-on traffic, but your post made me laugh.
 
If cars are rare, then surely you could time your entering/exiting the vehicle based on whether cars are coming?

I'd try to be kind to someone in that scenario either way, at bare minimum hug the yellow line if it's possible, but in this case I'd also expect the pedestrian to be mindful of traffic.
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
I grew up on a road similar to this (though the grass is paved). This means we parked our cars a couple feet away from the white line. This makes unloading groceries, loading up the car etc a little scary because you often have to stand/walk in the two feet of space between the white line and your vehicle.

The road (35mph) I used to live on is not busy (1 - 2 cars pass every minute) and the sight lines are great (very little curvature to the road).

florida_ave-600x342.png


What the **** is up with people who drive 2,000+ lb vehicles and act like putting their tires on the yellow median is just as bad as squishing human being against a parked car?! I swear to God 80% of human beings are autistic and worship that f***ing yellow line like psychopaths.

Do you also worship that double yellow line or are do you place a hire value on human life and get your car in the middle of the road?!

PS: The only people who semi regularly pass this decent human being test is truck guy. Truck guy is not to be confused with anyone driving a new truck, with the upgraded interior package, and has a car wash membership. That's fake truck guy and that person will squish you.
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GeekyDad said:
Someone who understood the original post, please translate for me.
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-You're driving down the road in the OP.
-No vehicles are headed towards you.
-There is a human walking just off the shoulder...a foot or two away from the white edge line.

Do you:

A. Stay in your lane and risk crushing the human with your vehicle?

B. Steer to the left and give the human some space?
 
Men_in_Boxes said:
-You're driving down the road in the OP.
-No vehicles are headed towards you.
-There is a human walking just off the shoulder...a foot or two away from the white edge line.

Do you:

A. Stay in your lane and risk crushing the human with your vehicle?

B. Steer to the left and give the human some space?
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Ah...

Well, you slow down, make sure there is no oncoming traffic, and slowly drive around the ped. Pedestrians always get the right of way.
 
Avid Reading Horse said:
When I drive down the road I pretend that I'm Barack Obama and can order a drone strike on idiot drivers simply by pointing my finger at them and muttering, "unlawful combatant."

I hope that answers your question.
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Because of your post, I've started doing that today.

It's much more cathartic and safer than road rage.
 
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