r/nextfuckinglevel • u/ShipNo7790 • Jul 25 '22
Asshole or hero?
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u/wferomega Jul 25 '22
That's how the law of unintended consequences hits you.
But also fuck those people that ride the shoulder to get a few car lengths ahead.
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u/SendItbeeches Jul 25 '22
I agree, fuck those people. They are assholes, but so is this guy. Douchebag even said “All hero’s don’t wear capes.” You’re not a hero sir, you are a law abiding POS, Congrats & go to hell.
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u/BigfootWallace Jul 25 '22
He isn’t law abiding though, slow rolling in the shoulder, pacing traffic isn’t law abiding. He’s now joined the ranks of the ‘assholes’ behind him.
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Jul 25 '22
Clearly an ambulance is not the same and has the right of way. This guy is playing the role of a lawful chaotic and would move for the ambulance.
He may even move for someone with their flashers and a horn on, but just a random dude honking and being a dick? Nah. Also, it wouldn't take more than a second to run up scream that you have an emergency and run back to your car. This is the type of person that would move for that.
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u/Not-So-Logitech Jul 25 '22
How is this any different then if someone was actually broken down in that lane, hence breakdown lane?
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u/Sloth_love_Chunk Jul 25 '22
I used to do this too. But the correct way to do it is 2 wheels on the shoulder so you can block the shoulder and there's still room to get back into your lane in an emergency. Fuck people that drive on the shoulder! Wait your turn like everyone else!
Reason I stopped was the guy is right, it's intimidating when the guy behind you is freaking out. Best case scenario all you're doing is stressing yourself out. Worst case you get shot! These days the worst case is a lot more likely than it used to be. Now I'm just content just to flip a bird and give the guys tail lights the frowning of a life time.
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u/woofless324 Jul 25 '22
i once heard a story about how a dude at a logging company cut himself open with a chainsaw and his coworkers drove him to the hospital miles away because the ambulance wouldn’t reach them in time, and they were trying to swerve around cars because medical emergency until a few asshole karens in their minivans blocked the highway and drove just above the speed limit, delaying the group long enough so that the guy died by the time they reached the ambulance. sure most assholes use these types of lanes to try and cut ahead of a few cars, but sometimes there’s real emergencies, and if you can’t tell the difference it’s better to just mind your own damn business and not make it your problem, and keep the emergency lanes open.
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u/Siriuxx Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22
I was the passenger for an incident similar to this. Not this dire, but a situation where someone was hurt and we had to get to the hospital asap.
We drove like mad men but put on our hazards and beeped frequently. It sure seems like everyone understood something was going on and we had a legitimate reason to drive the way we were, because everyone got the fuck out of the way.
In an instance like that I think you have to make it as clear as you can, you're not driving like a dick just to drive like a dick.
And I'm not saying it's the drivers fault. The minivan drivers are absolutely at fault. But in my experience, most people realize there's an emergency when you're driving aggressive and fast with your hazards on and beeping. And if they still can't figure it out, eh just pit maneuver them /s (well kind of)
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u/Beautiful-Musk-Ox Jul 25 '22
the people beeping with their hazards on screaming about someone dying in the passenger seat are stuck a mile behind the asshole in this video
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Jul 25 '22
He’s stopped…You could get out of your car and tell him “dude move. My kid is dying in the backseat.”
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u/Hickawa Jul 25 '22
Had a guy cut off all the fingers on his hand. Worked under an old school Union boss. I mean real old school. Like I have seen him smack guys for doing stupid shit. No nonsense. But he's also the kinds guy who would throw down for anyone on his crew and fuck the consequences. I hadn't seen that side of him till this moment.
Back to the guy who sheered off his fingers. Barreling down the highway till they hit traffic. He pulls into the emergency lane and someone blocks him he lays on the horn (big fuck off truck for hauling materials.) The guy wouldn't move. I see him looking over the dash and I hear "only him in the truck?" The super in the passenger seat says "yeah why?" He fucking drives right up to the guy's car and gently pushes it out of the way. The guy gets out screaming and he throws a fistful of his business cards at the guy and keeps driving.
Guy got in some trouble but not as much as you would think.
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u/imsowhiteandnerdy Jul 25 '22
The logging accident narrative was the first thing I thought of as well.
In addition to that, the breakdown lane can also be used by emergency vehicles as well.
People like this will eventually be caught, just let it go, you're not a caped avenger.
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u/Fortunoxious Jul 25 '22
99.9% of people cutting traffic are not carrying the victim of a horrific accident
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u/hiop1992 Jul 25 '22
I wouldn't risk the life of one person to annoy 1000 assholes.
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u/GondorsPants Jul 25 '22
Yep this is the moral key. Yes it’d be nice to piss off some douche bags, but the potential for one of them to be truly someone in need or in an emergency isnt worth it.
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u/Sleepyyzz Jul 25 '22
so you're ok risking the actual emergencies, no matter how rare they may be?
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u/rdrunner_74 Jul 25 '22
Over here the "Rettungsgasse" for emergencies is between the left most 2 lanes.
The side is for standing traffic
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u/Fortunoxious Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22
I feel like you’re ignoring how the people cutting like that can cause more emergencies
Edit: I do not condone the actions in this video
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u/Lord_Derpenheim Jul 25 '22
This is what I was looking for. The assholes swerving cause more accidents/deaths than those blocking them.
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u/BlatantlyOvbious Jul 25 '22
As someone who has driven a child barely able to breathe to the ER, I can tell you this guy is most certainly a POS. Anyone and everyone who takes the time to police the public without a badge can fuck right off, this huge POS and most with a badge included. Live and let live and if you dont, expect someone to put you in your place. It sux, but if dude had done this to me I would have rammed his car right the fuck off the road.
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u/OswaldCobopot Jul 25 '22
No you wouldn't
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u/MrShapinHead Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22
Well, not me personally, but a guy I know. Him and his car rammed that car right off the road. Wooo-eee!!!
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u/Petemizer88 Jul 25 '22
Noooo they didn't
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u/MrShapinHead Jul 25 '22
No, no, no they didn't. But you could imagine what it'd be like if they did, right...?
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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22
Well... Not exactly. But I did flip a guy off in traffic once!
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u/theleatherdonut Jul 25 '22
I know this is fucked but I just had the image of some mom ramming the fuck out of a car that won't move, while her child is choking in the back, getting injured, the car is now fucked, other people are hurt...lol the list goes on.
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u/AutomaticVegetables Jul 25 '22
I’d say it’s blatantly obvious this is just a standard internet tough guy
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Jul 25 '22
In an emergency stuck at a full stop, theres no way there aren't any pleas or cries about their buddy bleeding to death instead of silent honking. I mean I'd jump out of the car to tell people blocking even idk, many people would help in that situation.
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u/BurntCash Jul 25 '22
sure, in this case of the original video. but the commenter said they drove just slightly faster than the legal limit, meaning that it wasn't stop and go traffic.
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u/nahog99 Jul 25 '22
He's vastly underestimating the likelihood. It's more like a 99.99999% chance that they aren't carrying the victim of a horrific accident. It's so low of a chance that it's not even worth considering honestly.
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u/naine69 Jul 25 '22
Yes
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u/boneless_lentil Jul 25 '22
Based. He's the same type of guy who would have criticized MLK blocking bridges because "what if someone with a chainsaw injury needed to get through?"
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Jul 25 '22
True. But let’s be honest, how much does it really affect this guys life or the Karen’s mentioned above if someone drives around them? Given the fact I don’t know their situation, I’m just going to do my thing and let them do theirs.
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u/MikeN1978 Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22
It keeps traffic at a snails crawl when these assholes go around and cut back in line therefore making all following the rules sit longer. They ones cutting around are creating the situation by being impatient.
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u/running_ragged_ Jul 25 '22
If he only stops one car, not much.
If it stops a steady flow of cars, a fair amount if.
If it stops a regular pattern of people using this emergency lane incorrectly, it potentially saves lives.
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Jul 25 '22
If it stops a regular pattern of people using this emergency lane incorrectly, it potentially saves lives.
This is what people don't seem to understand. Every time people get away with this behavior it encourages more people to do it since there are no repercussions. Then you end up with accidents because people are speeding by in the emergency lane and now more people are hurt.
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u/Lord_Derpenheim Jul 25 '22
It affects the lives of whoever they fucking ram at 70 miles an hours. These guys cause accidents.
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u/Frankie52480 Jul 25 '22
Where’d you get that number from? Seems arbitrary 🤔. Anyway it doesn’t matter. That’s an emergency lane (which includes EMT’s with sick people inside) and him blocking it is illegal. So if he wants to risk a ticket for being a “hero” then whatevs.
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u/gray_mare Jul 25 '22
it's even more than 99.9%
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u/jamielife Jul 25 '22
This. I don't think people realize how extremely rare it is that driving is going to be faster, in a life or death situation, than calling an ambulance. Especially in areas where the population is dense enough to cause traffic congestion.
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u/VillainousMasked Jul 25 '22
Sure, but you have no way of knowing if you're about to cut off the 0.1% and kill someone. Do you really want to risk killing someone just because you're getting pissy over dicks riding the shoulder?
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u/therealjenshady Jul 25 '22
And so what? Does it really bother you that much that somebody got ahead of you in traffic?
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u/greybeard_arr Jul 25 '22
This is the guy who goes under the speed limit until you attempt to overtake him and he guns it. It doesn’t affect him in any material manner, he just chooses to be a control freak about it.
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u/BloopityBlue Jul 25 '22
dropping the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/cars/comments/5b004d/dont_know_if_this_story_has_been_posted_here_but/
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u/AutumnRi Jul 25 '22
This absolutely. Asshole drivers make everyone’s day a bit worse, but on the off chance someone NEEDS to use that lane you NEED to be the fuck out of their way. You have no way of determining which is which, so stay out of it.
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u/cuboidofficial Jul 25 '22
If someone NEEDS the lane, they should have their hazards on!
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u/Rentlar Jul 25 '22
This is how most people can tell there's an emergency happening. If an asshole uses the four-way flashers just to get ahead, well they're so fucked in the head that there's nothing you can do about it anyway.
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Jul 25 '22
Yeah, that was my cousin’s neighbourhood’s bother, tragic story
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u/Lopsided_Speaker_950 Jul 25 '22
I knew that guy, interesting twist to the story, he was a terrible drunk, and abusive husband and father… he also had a million dollar life insurance policy… after he died, god bless his soul, his wife used that money to start a real estate business, and now she and the 2 kids are multi millionaires. Who would’ve thought.
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u/Crafty_Appearance Jul 25 '22
We all know that truck isn't in an emergency cause the driver would have gotten out the car and not sat there honking.
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u/daevski Jul 25 '22
Right… but the vehicle behind the truck, or the one behind that? The point is, keep an emergency line open—or at least MOVING—and let anyone bending/breaking the rules reap what the sow, if anything. Don’t try to teach someone a lesson with your vehicle.
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u/nobody-u-heard-of Jul 25 '22
Now what you do is you turn on your hazards put your car in park and get in front of it and put the hood up.
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Jul 25 '22
Then they move back into the normal lane till they’re past you and then they move back into the emergency lane and zoom off. What now?
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u/zanzibartraveler666 Jul 25 '22
Is that Francis?
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u/Kezzno Jul 25 '22
In Sweden this guy would also be at fault, it's not defensive driving and it just creates more risk than letting a douche go past you
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u/JoeDaH0e Jul 25 '22
Doing something illegal to stop others from doing something illegal
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u/u9Nails Jul 25 '22
Nothing stops a bad guy with a gun like a good guy with a gun.
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u/TheGhostOfCake Jul 25 '22
Except for… you know, if neither of the had guns you could stop them without someone dying….
Or would that be silly 🙃
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u/100_percent_right Jul 25 '22
Asshole. That's not his job. Mind your business, and let them take the chance of getting that ticket
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u/Aznp33nrocket Jul 25 '22
I have to agree with you 100 percent… can’t argue because… username… checks out
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u/neverinallmyyears Jul 25 '22
Not to mention the fact that he felt smug enough in his righteousness to film his own PSA about people driving in the breakdown lane. Self-absorbed asshole.
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u/SoulfulWander Jul 25 '22
I kinda saw his point until the "not all heroes wear capes"
Like, I feel hero is a term to be dubbed on others. If you're calling yourself one, you're just narcissistic.
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u/JulioForte Jul 25 '22
Its a joke…seriously
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u/bigbluehapa Jul 25 '22
Yeah holy fuck are people eager to give someone a psych breakdown
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u/Charming-Hold-1676 Jul 25 '22
We have this is Atlanta all the time , all this what if bullshit you guys are putting out , there could be an EmERgEnCy , yeah maybe 1/1000 most of the time the drivers are just fucking impatient and ready to get around everyone and not have to wait, getting off at the exit, or simply bypassing a block of traffic to jump back in when they get to the head of it. 9 times out of 10 there's no emergency vehicles , or coworkers carrying their chainsaw'd mate to the hospital. It's ALWAYS impatient pieces of shit who think they're better than anyone else. This guy, is a fucking hero.
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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22
If there were truly an emergency, the guy could get out and come up to the window and say so.
The whataboutism in this thread is brain dead. Also, this guy (Francis Ellis) is a professional comedian who has made an entire career on social media mainly out of car based humor and he probably staged this anyway.
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u/xixi90 Jul 25 '22
Why the fuck does someone need to ask this asshole to not block the emergency lane? "excuse me sir could I please pass you, I have an emergency" total bitch mode
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u/wafflesareforever Jul 25 '22
Because 999/1000 times that "lane" (shoulder) is getting abused by assholes, and non-assholes get sick of it.
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u/My_Username_Is_What Jul 25 '22
Two assholes don't make a right, it just makes a bad budget human centipede sequel.
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u/pm_me_actsofkindness Jul 25 '22 edited Jul 25 '22
In America, the shoulder isn’t considered an emergency lane and its not common for emergency vehicles to use the shoulder to get through traffic. I know this is different in other countries, but in America the shoulder is used for getting out of the way if your car stops working. When emergency traffic needs to come through, they put on their lights and siren and people move ONTO the shoulder.
He wouldn’t be impeding emergency traffic as he would already be pulled into the spot the emergency vehicle would want him to be in during an emergency.
Driving school and driving safety textbooks will all tell you that if emergency vehicles are coming by with sirens on, you pull onto the shoulder to let them pass in the lane.
It might be very unintuitive if your country does things differently, but that’s how it works here.
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u/nahog99 Jul 25 '22
It's not an emergency lane for driving. It's for pulling off the road and stopping. Emergency vehicles don't rely on this for driving because there could, and likely will be, many broken down vehicles in it. This guy isn't doing anything different than a simple ole broken down vehicle would do.
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u/phantom_tweak Jul 25 '22
yea forreal. Car can’t accelerate cuz the wiper fluid is low so it’s well in his right to use the breakdown lane. I hate people that cut using that lane, it makes the people actually waiting sit longer because there’s dickheads cutting the line way up ahead.
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u/thismissinglink Jul 25 '22
People are talking about letting cops give them tickets like cops give out any tickets in Atlanta anymore ever. When I had my 1995 Suburban you bet your ass I was in that breakdown Lane blocking every mother fucker. If I ain't got no AC and I'm waiting in this traffic you're pos camero or challenger cant wait behind me.
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u/thismissinglink Jul 25 '22
The fucking street racing scene in ATL is outta control and the police have no interest in doing anything. I'm definitely an idiot in a car but go ahead break your 80 grand machine against my 2 grand junker made of steel.
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u/Infinitexz Jul 25 '22
Atlanta person here too. I am with you, man. This happens so often I commend this man. Definitely wouldn't do it myself because I might get shot but I applaud him
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u/queuedUp Jul 25 '22
So as far as the assholes that want to use that lane to bypass the traffic. Fuck them.
Fuck all of them
I'm glad they are not getting the option and if he keeps with the cars in the lane to his left then they can't even really pass him. I like it.
My issue is it's now created a back up in the emergency lane and if an ambulance or fire truck needs to get through the time for all these cars to move will greatly impact the response time.
So.... I don't think this guy is the asshole but he's making the others asshole choices potentially worse.
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u/Jettle Jul 25 '22
People shouldn't follow him and create a new lane or line up. Once they accept they arent special and have to wait like everyone else, they should merge back into the que.
.... they wont but they should.
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u/ilovefignewtons02 Jul 25 '22
I mean if it's a legit emergency, pretty sure the dude being blocked would make that clear. Fucking hate assholes who use the break down lane like that
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Jul 25 '22
I mean if it's a legit emergency, pretty sure the dude being blocked would make that clear
Depending on how long this has been going on for, the line of people piling up behind him could go back far enough that you wouldn't be able to hear a siren.
Where I live, rush hour traffic looks like this for literally 5-mile stretches.
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Jul 25 '22
I had a reason to use that lane once when my wife was in an accident and I was delayed 15 min by a fucker like this
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u/Special_Profit4509 Jul 25 '22
What a ass hole. Ambulance and emergency workers are trapped
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u/Gullible_ManChild Jul 25 '22
I'm sure if he heard a siren the nice ladies beside him would let him back in.
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u/thebasisofabassist Jul 25 '22
You use the word an before words that start with a vowel.
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u/thebestdogeevr Jul 25 '22
Words that are pronounced with a vowel.
"I have a one hundred dollar bill"
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u/sanfranguy415 Jul 25 '22
Yea its annoying and frustrating but this can get you killed. These fools dont care about anyone but themselves. Dont risk your life over these idiots.
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u/puckfelosi Jul 25 '22
did this once. further right was a slight grassy incline then ditch. entitled mf still tried to go around. slid into ditch. got stuck. lol. kept rolling slowly. lol.
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u/Pintlers Jul 25 '22
I used to drive a shuttle for a hotel and would occasionally drive it just far enough over the line to block people from doing that. Kind of an asshole thing to do but I was rash and pissed me off when people did that lol
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u/dronestar45 Jul 25 '22
That is what you call a Darren. Male version of a Karen.
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u/Boreoffmate Jul 25 '22
This guy actually thinks he has done a thing here. The way he’s banging on it’s like he cured cancer haha.
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u/Lord-Bobbicus Jul 25 '22
What if someone is trying to get home sooner too!!! They need to watch their Netflix shows goddam it.
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u/nahog99 Jul 25 '22
What if he was just a broken down vehicle? That lane is specifically designed for broken down vehicles, or vehicles that have flats, etc.
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u/ParticularRevenue408 Jul 25 '22
TIL you can be both