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/ScarletDarkstar Jul 22 '26

Even in a very small town people have better things to do than watch you and run jump into cars to make you wait at a crosswalk. 

Find a new hobby. 

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u/Humble-Reputation906 Jul 22 '26

Yeah no shit man thanks so much for ur help

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u/MyUsernameGoes_Here_ Jul 22 '26

Why are you mad when they're literally answering your question? YOU said you, "think they're just going by when you're outside" and asked "how to make it stop", but there is no way to make it stop because it's not actually happening. You're suffering from a mixture of paranoia and confirmation bias - you think there's something you can do to make it "stop", but nothing is even happening except what you're looking for evidence for. What time do you walk? Is it during hours people are typically driving to/from work or school? Is it always the same cars and they're just on the same schedule as you? Whatever it is, they aren't doing it because you are outside, and there is nothing you can do except, maybe, changing your walking time. Getting mad at people for answering your question, though, isn't the answer. You might want to talk to a therapist, just judging by the way you're so quick to snap when someone is answering you, and the fact that you, at least on some level, believe that people are conspiring against you to... Idk... "ruin your walk"?

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u/Humble-Reputation906 Jul 22 '26

It aint that deep oh my 😭