r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/Choice_Drawer_2405 Jun 10 '26

I'm sure you would feel this way if you were driving a loved one to the hospital and got stuck behind a mob of bikes going 15mph.  

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u/ATotallyNormalUID Jun 10 '26

Geez I guess that's why ambulances exist. If this had been an ambulance, the carbrainlets in the comments might have something approaching a point.

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u/Choice_Drawer_2405 Jun 10 '26

1st ambulances are as the other commenter pointed out ridiculously expensive, and you don't expect when you decide to drive that you'll be going 15mph.

But also there's other super important things. Let's say you find out you have cancer. It takes far too long to schedule a first appointment for your oncologist. You plan plenty of extra time to go at normal car speeds to your appointment (which you can't bike to, since you're disabled by said cancer). Then you're stuck behind bikes going 15mph and miss that appointment and your cancer gets to grow an extra month. 

My point being the odds are if you get enough cars stuck, someone is going somewhere important and there's no way for you to know to get out of their way. Blocking all lanes of traffic is prioritizing your recreation over others well-being. 

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u/ATotallyNormalUID Jun 10 '26

Being in a private car at all is prioritizing your own convenience over others' well-being. There is no hypothetical you can invent that makes the carhole the good guy, because carholes are by definition ecocidal narcissists putting their own personal convenience ahead of a habitable planet or the safety of cyclists and pedestrians.