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Fuck cars.
I’m not driving to whatever it is.
This is the way. I’ve learned after too many concerts, fairs, games, various other large events, that is just not worth it. I’m taking public transit, petal taxi, Lyft, whatever. I don’t want to spend 2 hours of my day doing nothing but staring at tail lights.
I wasn’t going to begin with
Wait, you’re telling me we don’t have a return plan EITHER?
Head exploding…
I park as far away as I’m able to walk in order not to drive around to find parking. I’ve found that it saves time on the long run, gas, and mor importantly my own stress and mental health.
I do that to. What I love is that while walking the last hundreds meters to the place you are going you can see all the people who try to park close that are all getting angry in their cars, proving you were right to park further away.
Once you start you never go back.
Same for when I get to work…
🤣
Laughs in European
Hon hon hon
Fill in the blank with any EU country after shaking hands with France lol
Tourism taking all the parking in your small European town?
Can’t park at the only town store because tourists are everywhere and I can’t park my car and don’t want to be a dick and leave it on the street with 4 blinkers on like any random BMW douche?
Go home hungry and wait till the next day?
Yeah, I’m laughing in European too.Nah i just walk, bike, or take public transit lmao
I will drive 20 extra minutes not to wait 10 minutes in gridlock.
I will park a mile away and walk in rather than circle for 10 minutes for a parking spot.
I wife is not a fan of either of these traits.
Drive there, park 5 miles away and e bike in
gridlock
wow this is the first time i have seen that word used in its original context in like YEARS lmao
I’m from the decade in which it was coined ;P
Driving further to avoid traffic makes sense: it seems to cause stress:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1098-2337(1999)25:6<409::AID-AB2>3.0.CO;2-0
I’m at the age where I don’t even have a car.
12?
I did have a lot of cars at 12 but they were all of the matchbox variety.
Well you had no excuse. Didn’t even need to park those, just throw it in a pocket when you’ve arrived.
Surely I’m not the only one with a collection of negative camber cars because I was convinced that this one could work like a roller skate.
Lol big city europe that age is 30.
I personally can drive, but living in a european medium/small city I know a lot of people in their thirties that doesn’t even know how to drive because they don’t need to.
20k town Europe and way past 30 with kids.
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If you can bike, bike. Bike parking always within 50m of the venue 😎
I’m at the age that the first train to the event being full is enough to make me go home.
Sadly the event I’m usually attending is called work
Woo, go boss! WOOOO! waves oversized finger all over, hitting several coworkers
WOOOOOOO
But cars are freedom! They let you go anywhere you want, right? /s
Yes, like away from crowded areas.
As yes, in the immortal words of Kris Kristofferson, “Freedom’s just another word for deciding where you want to go based on other people not wanting to go there, too. (And somebody building a road to get there.)”
It’s way before that for me. When I get word of the event, I look up the venue immediately to see the parking situation. If it’s bad and the event isn’t too important, I’m not going.
Then why did you take your car?
“I’m going home because I didn’t find a parking space” sounds like someone who drove there entirely alone. Look how much space a car takes up for just one person.
Because public transport sucks in USA, due to car companies bribing/lobbying the corrupt government.
There’s no USA mentioned in the post
Agreed. Americans don’t mention usa. We just assume we are the center of the universe.
I’m not from the USA. I was speaking generally.
The event might be groceries and I just don’t have the mental fortitude to deal with both a full parking lot I will have to walk from the other side of, but also wade through the sea of people inside.
The walking doesn’t bother me, I usually park more than halfway to the far side anyway since there’s less cars and I can pull through the spaces to park easier.
Genuinely don’t get this, go by public transit.
Many places don’t have public transit.
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My drive to the store: 10minutes,with traffic and hitting red lights.
My public transit to the same store: 15 minutes of walking, 30-45 minutes of waiting for a bus at the closest stop to me, it’s late or will skip my stop as usual. 20 minutes to get to the next stop that will get me to the store but I have to wait another 5-10 minutes for the bus that actually gets closest to the store to arrive, and 5-10 minutes for it to make it’s closest pass. 10 more minutes to walk to the store.
Now do it all in reverse! Luckily the route is slightly faster on the way home because the first bus I take usually chills at the hospital for a little bit and I can just hop a few fences to get to my house quicker than the bus.
So that 10 minute ride in a car now takes me many hours.
Legally I’m not allowed to bike there since I have to cross highways and private property. I still do it when it’s cool enough to bike. For the same reasons, I can’t walk to the store either, even if my knee could handle the distance.
Yeah had to bike to and from work and home almost daily am hour each way in a Maine and it was pain ++ dangerous lol
Depends where you live and how that area is designed. In much of the US unfortunately public transportation isn’t even an option or is an option that is so slow or so expensive it isn’t affordable. Vehicles may not be either, but that’s not how many people see it.
Yeah, lived in most places in usa and its horrifically terrible :(
