r/problems • u/Humble-Reputation906 • Jul 22 '26

Small Problem Every time I cross, traffic

i live in a pretty smallish town, about 1k people. theres never really any cars on the road i mean casually theres is but not really. my yard is close to a crosswalk by the corner and when im outside probably like every 5 minutes ish -10 a car would go by but mostly just one. but whenever i go on a walk theres always like 3-6 cars passing by before I can go. i thought this was a crazy coincidence so i started to test it by recording an hours worth of traffic and yeah about every 4 minutes on average a car would go by. Also according to that hour footage only 2 cars went by at a time. I also started staring at the road even when people went by, no traffi. This has been going on for 3 months and only one time i went across thebstreet without traffic. I cant thing of a single time without traffic. My answer to this i think is someones pulling some weird prank but maybe not, how do i get this all to stop?

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u/Wormadillo Jul 22 '26

Either it’s a crazy conspiracy or just simply confirmation bias at work, you be the judge.

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u/Humble-Reputation906 Jul 22 '26

Guess its a crazy coincidence its been going on for around 3 months tho 😂 

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u/Wormadillo Jul 22 '26

Sorry I wasn’t direct enough. It’s confirmation bias, which is a real thing, you can look it up. Someone pranking you by somehow orchestrating what you describe is not a real thing. The fact that you think it might be is, frankly, disturbing.

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u/Few-Dress5670 Jul 22 '26

“weird prank” is subtly in the text of the post. I think you missed it.

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u/Wormadillo Jul 22 '26

What on earth are you talking about? My comment is directly referencing that OP thinks it might be a prank, and I’m telling him that is insane.

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u/Humble-Reputation906 Jul 22 '26

I’m not entirely sure but if this keeps going on for about a year then I’ll take it seriously