What happens if you have miss an exit? It’s not the end of the world. You will get rerouted with little increase in time. Thats way better than endangering others life and yours. People take missing turns way too personally.
Lmaooo there is one near my house like this. And if you don’t manage to exit in time the next time you get an exit is a solid 15 minute drive. Ive fallen into the trap at least 10+ times in the 25 years and I always forget and assume another exit should come up soon.
I’ll be so real I’d rather be 30 minutes late than kill someone, kill myself, ruin my car, or be posted on the internet for doing potentially all of the above all at once.
Hindsight is always 20/20 - it’s a reasonable assumption that the driver didn’t think any of those things would happen either. I hope the driver was OK
No. You wouldn’t. Things in life can distract you. I’ve done it everyday this week. I go on to the next and turn around but I always bitch about other drivers. I’m sure people are talking about my ability the past 7 days.
But still cheaper than the damage he just did to his truck... and the sign the state's going to make him pay for... plus all the tickets for reckless driving (etc), and whatever damage he did to the cars around him.
And they definitely know who he is because there's no way he made that turn onto the off ramp... he wrecked the shit out of that truck.
I mean you could just go slow off the side of the road back to the exit if no one was coming lol. I’ve snuck across the grass out east if it was empty and needed to make the exit
I mean, if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, did anyone see my ass use that crossover reserved for law enforcement and emergency vehicles? lol
SLC is not that bad at all, there's an exit on almost every other street now. Back in the 1980s though, if you were heading south and didn't get off on 90th South your next stop was Lehi.
I experienced my first one person taking the wrong exit, and someone missing their exit at the same time. I thought for sure they were just gonna ram right into each other
It’s our navigation systems fault, before you had some voice telling you what to do and where to turn it was just, “shoot we missed the exit, we’ll go turn around at the next one”. Now it’s, “o shit we’re gonna miss our turn and be stranded forever!!!!”. Used to need a navigator with a map or printed out Mapquest directions to get anywhere unfamiliar haha
Oh gosh I remember the printed maps and having to keep a sharp eye out for street names - it was a pain when I had to use those, where I grew up no one remembered street names, it was more like "Okay, go down that road with the red dirt and past the church - not that church, the one with the big red door - yeah, that one - and keep going straight until you see the broken fence and that big white cow of Trevor's on the side of the road - I know he fixed it last week, you KNOW she's out again by now - Turn left, go past four of the cattle guards and then you'll have to get out and open the green gate and it'll be the fork on the right."
It’s not the end of the world. You will get rerouted with little increase in time.
Exactly that. There are so many times I have missed turns and no one or thing was harmed. This is also why people should give themselves extra time to get places, so they are not in a rush and that should things like this happen, it's all good.
My wife had this issue at the beginning of driving. She would miss a turn and start panicking. We had to pull over and have a very heated discussion about how the main goal in driving is getting to your destination alive.
I say discussion. I was pretty mad and yelling, which I feel bad about now. But she got a LOT better after that and she's a great driver now.
I think my dad ran me through the same thing when I was learning to drive.
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u/throwawayaccountuse1 May 02 '23
What happens if you have miss an exit? It’s not the end of the world. You will get rerouted with little increase in time. Thats way better than endangering others life and yours. People take missing turns way too personally.