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  • bigpharmasutra [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’ve been driving for 30 years now. I’ll tell you this with absolute confidence - if I could move to a city where I wouldn’t ever have to drive because I could bike and take public transport, I would do it in a HEARTBEAT. I cannot express to you how fucking miserable driving is down here. No one knows what they’re doing and, even worse, no one knows where they’re going! Covid caused all the frontal lobe damage to the drivers and they only make you renew your drivers license every 8 10 years here. I spend half my time on the road white knuckling it and yelling out my front windshield ‘GREEN MEANS GO!’ and "YOU’RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TRY TO RUN INTO ME’ while furiously honking the horn so they’ll realize that their gigantic piece of shit car isn’t supposed to be doing what they’re attempting to do.

    Not to mention, you have to pay for car insurance which is a small fortune.

    If anyone gives you shit about it just tell them to suck your dick. Or, if you’re less confrontational about it, tell them you’re “legally blind”. Make up any old shit, who gives a fuck!

    As to feeling inferior, just remember that every single dumb motherfucker that you’ve ever met in your life has a drivers license and drives a car.