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Wait, you’re telling me we don’t have a return plan EITHER?
Head exploding…
Some of my friends like to make “fake plans”, just to talk or something I guess? Like they’ll make up this whole vague scenario, but when I ask what date and time specifically, apparently that is the incorrect thing to ask
Same. So I just started going with the flow and now I get occasional passive aggressive replies for these plans never coming into existence. I guess I made these imaginary scenarios sound TOO good… but if they’re not going to be real, who needs to think about budgets or time restraints.
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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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
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.
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
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.)”
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.
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
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
If you can bike, bike. Bike parking always within 50m of the venue 😎
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.
I guess I’ve always been that age. 🤷
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
Me, arriving by train:
Same for when I get to work…
🤣
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.
I don’t drive a car and hate them very much, but I have this in common with motorists. Only what I’m looking for is a secure place to lock my bike. Which is somehow often rarer than a parking space for cars.
I got my bike stolen while it was locked by the side of a Walmart, so now I’m much more careful about the “parking situation” and I use a bike share or public transit if I fear for the safety of my vehicle.
Yeah somehow finding a pole or something to lock the bike to is impossible sometimes.
It’s illegal where I live to lock a bike to “urban furniture”, and a pole is also often not the safest place. If not stolen, it will be removed by the city.
How long do you leave your bike somewhere fpr it to be removed by the city??
A few months to a few days. And they leave notices on the bikes before taking them anyway. But the point is, a pole is my least favorite option to lock my bike. It’s dead last in the list of choices.
It’s an “illegal” last resort that means there’s no bike racks near my destination, or they are all full. So just like the meme says, I’m at the stage where if I can’t securely park and lock my bike somewhere, I’ll turn around or won’t go. If there’s space for an ocean of parking for cars, there’s space for a bike rack somewhere.