Carbrain brainrot
Last year, me and my mom was out driving, I we were hungry and fund a restaurant to have lunch at, someone must just have left because the parking spot closest to the entrance was free and I parked there.
Felt like a movie when the protagonist allways finds a parking spot by the entrance in a full parking lot.
And it was so amazing that you remember it a year later!
Believe it or not, I know the feeling. Took a vacation to Scotland like 10 years ago with the wife-to-be. Didn’t know anything shout the Fringe festival in Edinburgh and ended up there right in the middle of it with our rented car. Got used to driving on the opposite side of the road and car pretty quickly, but I was still remarkably proud of parallel parking in backwards-driving-world surrounded by street performers and tourists and doing it all on the first try. It was beautiful. We were perfectly equidistant from the surrounding cars, exactly 6 inches from the curb, in a manual transmission Jeep Renegade rental we picked up in Glasgow. To this day, it is my greatest parking achievement, without question. Still brings a tear to my eye reminiscing.
Thank you for sharing, this is the story I needed right now.
Jeep Renegade
All the other traffic probably gave you plenty space because they assumed you were a hairdresser 😂
Yeah, because he remembers when you made his ass circle for 30 minutes waiting for that close parking spot, when you both could have been in the venue 25 minutes earlier if you’d just not been a princess, and walked 100 yards.
Lol you okay there, bud?
Just speaking from experience, bro. I don’t have to tolerate that, anymore.
Wife bad 😤
Mine was. But she was a princess. Just ask her.
I am by far not a fuck cars guy but that screams car brain so fucking much. It’s like looking into a dystopia.
Also I would be ecstatic about finding a really nice parking space so what do I know
I think you are a fuck cars guy, if this is your opinion.
Cars have their uses, but just as you rightly point out, they’re way overused because of lack of better infrastructure.
Fuck cars people are often city lovers who don’t understand that not everyone wants neighbors.
Eh, I’m a suburbanite who is annoyed at our already relatively low density neighborhood (thinking of moving to the country), and I absolutely hate driving. I want to get to everything with a bicycle or a train.
You don’t have to love cities to hate cars.
I parked legally in front of the Apple Store on 5th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan once.
Parking is like $40/hour in that area in a garage. Damn straight I’m still talking about the good parking spot.
$40?!
That’s
highwaystreet-side robbery!
Dude had a piece of good luck and now he’s working it for all the serotonin it’s worth.
This is not pleasure, this is pain of not having public transport
I never personally understood the amount of focus people put on a good parking space. Unless it’s so bad that I have to park in an entirely different lot, I just can’t be bothered to care, and I see people getting so worked up over what is usually a minute or two max of walk time difference.
Obviously, some folks don’t walk so good and I’m not talking about that. It seems like the default behavior for even able-bodied drivers and it leads to fucking road rage incidents.
It’s a couple factors where I live:
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if you aren’t used to walking places because you live in a car dependent city and thus drive everywhere, walking feels bad, so people try to minimize it.
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parking lots usually lack shade so the asphalt bakes under the hot sun, making the walk feels extra bad after the nice cool car AC.
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parking lots and surrounding areas here typically have the bare minimum pedestrian accommodations, so walking is extra unpleasant.
3b) gotta watch out for cars that might hit you, or are belching out smelly exhaust, or radiating heat when you’re already sweating. Tolerable at best, and generally not at its best.
Basically, parking lots just suck to be in, so getting the least-sucky spot feels like a celebratory achievement.
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I’m the primary driver in our household and I don’t have good parking spot luck. Meanwhile, my husband has excellent parking luck. It’s gotten kind of funny actually. Before we really recognized it, he wondered why I didn’t like going to a particular grocery store. It’s because the parking lot is terrible. “You mean you don’t just park up front?” Uh, what? How would I do that exactly when none of those spots are ever free? But on the off chance that he’s driving, there is always, always a spot close to the door. It’s gotten to the point where if we’re going somewhere where the parking is going to be difficult, he drives.
What is he George Costanza?
George has only become more relatable over the years.
We called those spots TV parking. Because in TV shows, they always get that perfect parking spot
He’s either really positive or having a very bad time at the aquarium and is trying to force himself to be happy about something lol
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I almost took a 3 ton truck to the knee twice in a week and hung it up. I got a family.
My family rides on a cargo bike.
(Pictured: the same model bike, but not my actual family)
And what of the trucks and people texting? I straight up saw someone doing a FaceTime while driving 2 weeks ago. I’d be hesitant to drive a small car, let alone a bike.
Avoid the busy roads and do a mixture of aggressive and defensive cycling. Take the lane if it’s not safe for others to pass, and take side streets instead of busy roads. Your goal is to be seen and avoid the angry drivers.
I bike commuted every day for years and had no problems. I just changed jobs and it’s too far away now, but I really miss cycling to work.
I carry a large chain and swing it aggressively. Cars pay a lot more attention to you when their property is at risk.
Same with crossing a street, try carrying a brick and see how much more space cars give you.
They threaten me with their giant car, I threaten them back
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We’re not cowards, I guess?
Statistically, utility cyclists live longer than drivers. Although I can’t find the study itself to be sure, I believe that’s considering all factors including car crashes.
Statistically, you are twice as likely to die riding a bike vs driving.
I’m glad you are not a coward, I heard only cowards can die riding a bicycle.
Statistically, you are twice as likely to die riding a bike vs driving.
And you’re way, way more likely to die due to complications of a sedentary lifestyle (due to driving instead of cycling), which blows that difference out of the water.
On top of that, the more people bike, the safer it becomes (both because of more/better bicycle infrastructure, and fewer drivers). Statistically, I’m making myself safer by trying to persuade people to try it.
I’m at 5.8 miles walking a day so far this year. You can be not sedentary and also alive.
On an unrelated note. What you’re doing is not making people more likely to ride a bike.
What I’m saying, and what I said, is not going to be the deciding factor of whether people ride a bike. This is what’s wrong with the internet. Well meaning people believe other people aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I believe the technical term is “white knighting”.
In a way, it’s similar to the “woke” controversy. You’re afraid once people read what I wrote about dying on a bike, they won’t be able to decide for themselves if a bike is for them, just like conservatives think seeing a same-sex embrace will turn their child gay.
The truth is, human behavior is a lot more behind the scenes than it’s probably comfortable for you to imagine. It feels right to point to one moment as the moment you decided to ride or not ride a bicycle, but it’s absolutely not true unless that one moment was deeply traumatizing. Stop treating strangers’ words like trauma, we don’t agree for reasons we may or may not be aware of. Neither of us is as important as you’re imagining.
Those stories of one person changing the world? Convenient and wrong. It was movements of lots of people. Movements built offline of people who spent face time planning real things they actually were going to do and then executing those plans.
So I appreciate you believing I have the power to dissuade people from riding bikes by telling my absolutely true story of almost dying on a bike, but it’s as big a waste of your time as me typing this thing you won’t fully understand (see what I did there?)
Let Darwin handle this one fam. Their blood will help write proper biking infrastructure bills.
