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We look both ways no matter what because that’s the protocol and the protocol keeps us safe. If you believe it’s safe to deviate from the protocol, you’re opening up a chance to be wrong. It’s that simple.
My chemistry teacher told us this when we were first handling dangerous chemicals and it’s stuck with me ever since.
Defensive driving is for pedestrians too
Some things are good habits whether they are strictly necessary or not. Like looking both ways or signaling your turn or punching nazis.
This is false equivalency. It is always strictly necessary to punch nazis.
You know what, you’re right.
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Cemeteries are full of people who had the right of way.
I tell my kid “Even if you’re right, you still get the wheelchair. Don’t trust drivers, pay attention.”
It’s not about who’s right, it’s about who’s left
Great for organ donors though.
Gotta look both ways when you have a green light at an intersection too.
This. I do this and it has saved me from folks who said “fuck it.” And ran the red.
My brother might be coming the other way!
(It is gratifying that if you do a DDG search for this phrase, the top result is a video of someone running a red light.)
Yeah where I live there is this funny obsession with waiting for the walk light and soo many people just step out without looking. Meanwhile you will often literally get people grumbling at you if you walk on a red no matter how clear the street is.
Yep, one of the worst crashes I’ve ever had to work, was a wrong way car that hit 2 bicycles that didn’t look. Each bicycle had a parent and a child on board. All sustained very serious injuries. It was a true definition of “blood bath”.
I’m not sure it was necessary for you to bathe in their blood.
Well, kinda necessary, otherwise we wouldn’t have been able to render care very well.
Can’t believe no one mentioned Limmy yet.
For a second I hella thought he was gonna have more song there 🤣
Me: at a stop sign waiting for a car to pass before I turn right
Passenger: “You can go. He has his turn signal on.”
Car: zooms past at full speed without turning
Me:
Never take a passengers advice.
Have you been to Italy? I do this on every street because there is a serious chance of finding a bike, or electric scooter or even moped going the wrong way.
I visited Italy.
I had no idea that mario kart was a documentary. I never get carsick, but after travelling for 24 hours, let me tell you, I got carsick. I didn’t get carsick traveling that far before either.
I got a driver from the airport to my hotel in Rome. I decided that in Rome you’re allowed to break one law at a time while driving. So you could drive on the wrong side of the road but you still had to respect that red traffic light unless you got back onto the right side of traffic.
As a forced pedestrian (can’t drive due to health issues), this is so true. Also at crosswalks, a lot of drivers turning right while looking left. They always appear genuinely SHOCKED to encounter “a walker.” Like, “A PERSON…? NOT IN A… CAR?? IS THAT POSSIBLE?” Like it shatters their entire concept of the universe and how things work. Yes, I live in America, and this happens in both suburbs and downtown DC.
I make a point to make eye contact with the driver in those sorts of situations. Which is a big part of why darkened front windows should be illegal. You need to be able to see where a driver is looking.
part of why i use a mobility device is that i can use it to bang on vehicles and alert them of my presence without kicking/hitting it with my bones, in sitiations just like you describe. a sock full of pool balls would also work.
i have to say tho, as another forced pedestrian, the best thing for my getting around has been getting a recumbent trike.
Pool balls? Like beach balls?
Edit: Billiards balls. Took me way too long.
oh yeah sorry. i got some Stasesianisms littered through my speech
You joke, but I was talking to a friend about this just a few weeks ago. I always check both ways on one-way streets after almost getting struck by a taxi reversing at 50 km/h while I was crossing in front of a hotel, and coming within 1 ft. of crippling me. Never trust the signage, never trust the cars.
I particularly did this when I was in the UK or Japan, but that’s more because I have no faith that I will remember to pick the correct way.
I just can’t remember which country I’m in sometimes.
Even if you look both ways, you can still get killed by a falling flower pot, because you didn’t look up.
Oh no, not again.
And even then there are uncovered manholes.
