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PSA: if you're driving at night and someone behind you flashes their brights CHECK YOUR HEADLIGHTS. This is a common way for others to tell you to that your headlights are off when they should be on (at least in the US, not sure about other countries)
#just drove for two miles behind someone who had their lights off#kept flashing my brights and they clearly didn't know what it meant because they kept driving with them off until I saw them get pulled over#could have avoided a ticket if they knew what we were trying to tell them#driving without headlights at night is so dangerous#I started off in front of this car and could barely see them in my rearview because there was NO LIGHT#please be considerate of other drivers and learn driving etiquette#it could prevent you from getting into an accident or getting a ticket
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Always use your turn signal
Cars are several tons of metal moving at very high speeds, even though they're such a normal part of every day life they can be very dangerous or deadly when not used consciously. When you have several tons of metal moving at high speeds it makes it safer for everyone if we know which direction it's about to go, as being aware where the car is about to go reduces accidents and pedestrian/cyclist getting struck by cars.
#putting this in the tags because this is a personal bit#but I don't own a car and haven't for several years#most of the time I walk or ride my bike#and quite literally every other day I almost get hit by cars while I'm crossing a crosswalk by foot or bike#because a car just whips around a corner without using their turn signal at all#it really would be safer for me if I could tell they were about to whip around a corner#you know#with a turn signal#good manners#courtesy#manners#politeness#etiquette
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Was ist denn plötzlich im spatort fandom los? Man liest hier auf einmal Dinge über Spaltungen und fake leaks und Leute die das fandom "verlassen" wollen... Guys curating your fandom experience is okay! Just don't follow people you don't want to follow! Seid nur in Servern wo ihr Spaß habt! Blacklists und Blockfunktion existieren aus nem Grund! Nicht alles so ernst nehmen!
Ich verstehe, dass nicht jeder seit 10+ Jahren in online spaces unterwegs ist und die Erfahrungen gemacht hat die ich z.b. gemacht habe. Ich habe fandom wars gesehen like you can't even imagine. Der Trick ist einfach offline zu gehen! It's not real!!
Leute haben eine andere Interpretation? Let them! Leute wollen eher Pia und Esther sehen als Adam und Leo? Let them!! Leute schreiben omegaverse smut fic und dir gefällt es nicht? OKAY DON'T READ IT. Man kann Schauspieler für ihr acting mögen oder in einer Rolle feiern aber sie trotzdem kritisieren/cringe finden/mal ne Rolle blöd finden!! Just keep it in fandom spaces und harrassed niemanden und gut is. Es kann auch mal Spaß machen andere Takes zu lesen und sich zu denken 'boah die Person labert quatsch' - aber kommentier es nicht drunter. Schon wird niemand verletzt!
Fandom kann so fun sein. Mein Appell: organisiert euch selbst eure fandom experience, sucht euch aus mit wem ihr interagiert und findet außer spatort andere Gemeinsamkeiten. Wenn Spatort era endet bin ich sad, ja, aber guess what! Es gibt noch viele andere Sachen mit denen man sich beschäftigen kann.
Be nice to each other!
#tatort saarbrücken#meine 3 Cents zum thema fandom#spatort#fandom#fandom wank I guess?#german stuff#fandom etiquette#NUANCES#you can like 1 thing and still have different opinions#sometimes you need to roast your faves#it's healthy#ich liebe spatort aber die dialoge sind cringe#nicht alles macht sinn#both can be true#I can like an actor and hate his cringy car adverts#I can love a tv show and still think it's not well written#go offline and put your favourite fandom people on your couch!!
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#I have this friend#any time we are walking together#he will make sure that I am on the left side of the sidewalk. further from the road#he says this is ‘chivalry’ and ‘how he was raised’#the idea is that if a car crashed and struck the sidewalk#he would get hit and I would be safe#he’s also from a neighborhood where drive-by shootings are common#so I think it might also have something to do with that#his mom was in a gang#anyway. before I met him I had never heard of this kind of ‘etiquette’#so i wonder how common it is 🤔
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DIBS: Chicago’s Most Heated Winter Tradition
DIBS: A Chicago winter staple. Shovel your parking spot, claim it—but for how long? Is it fair? Is it chaos? From history to unwritten rules, we break down this fiercely debated tradition and why it’s not disappearing anytime soon.
Ah, winter in Chicago. The time of year when the temperature drops, the lake-effect snow rolls in, and the most sacred of unspoken laws takes effect: DIBS. For the uninitiated, DIBS is the time-honored Chicago tradition of reserving a freshly shoveled parking spot with whatever household junk is lying around—lawn chairs, old crates, a broken fan, or, in some cases, an inexplicably placed…
#Blizzard#Car Troubles#Cars in Winter#Chicago#Chicago Culture#Chicago Life#Chicago neighborhoods#Chicago Streets#Chicago Weather#Chicago Winters#City Life#Cold Weather#Community Rules#DIBS#Driving in Snow#Frozen Streets#Ice and Snow#Lake Effect Snow#Local Traditions#Midwest Culture#Midwest Living#Neighborhood Feuds#Outdoor Survival#Parking#Parking Controversy#Parking Etiquette#Parking Justice#Parking Problems#Parking Wars#Public Space
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Just had one of those bafflingly awful public experiences.
I held the door open for an older woman using a cane at the sandwich place where I had just had lunch. I was on my way out and an older couple was right behind me. They also had to wait to walk out as I had elected to hold the door for this older woman, older and less abled than this couple, to get in. She thanked me quietly.
Then the wife of the couple made the point of looking me in the eye and thanking me too with "That was very nice of you!" in that particularly condescending way of someone entitled who has been mildly inconvenienced, but wants to reassure themselves that they're better than you because they used their annoyance to be positive. In that patronizing tone of voice reserved for her children that don't talk to her. You know the voice. And I probably am the age of her children as she is twice my age, but I just smiled half-heartedly and said "No problem" and walked on.
They were inevitably parked next to me. And it's cold out and I need to get back to work in time for my next meeting. So rather than be patient and wait for them to leave, I did something stupid. I waited for both of them to get into their car and turn it on, then got into my car myself. However, the space between our cars was a little tight and I was a little big, dressed warmly for the weather, and my car door gently tapped theirs. You know, in the normal way of using parking lots.
So of course, this woman looks up and motions at me. I have not even turned the car on, so I do, and roll down the window for her to say. "Excuse me, I think you hit our car." I try to do a convincing dumb look and say, "Oh! I'm sorry!" I stare at their car door, unblemished, undented, and look back up to say, "I don't see a mark. I do apologize." And make the point of looking them both in the eye, the husband displeased, the wife smiling like she commands the will of heaven. She sort of nods and I roll my window up and they back out. I roll forward and as I leave the parking lot, I see their car is unmoved, tastefully double parking the cars next to them as I'm sure they sit there lamenting the rudeness of the youth, their callous disregard for other people's property, or, for all I know, taking down my license plate so they can put in a complaint somewhere.
Maybe I'm just a rude bitch, but I kinda take it as a given that car doors will touch other car doors. As long as there's no dings or scratches, I can't imagine chastising a stranger for the faux pas of touching doors. But maybe I'm wrong here, maybe I should have waited, foot tapping, in the cold, while I wait for strangers to decide when to move their car, rather than risk touching their door. Or maybe I should have ungainly wriggled inside, both looking and feeling uncomfortable. Or better yet, opened the other door and climbed over the inside of my car to prevent the interaction.
Why are there only rude options here? Am I so out of touch already?
#venting#personal#social friction#maybe I'm not trying hard enough to see it their way#Maybe they meant nothign by it#Maybe I have lax understanding of car etiquette these days#I don't know...#felt super obnoxious to me
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I think I've become either incredibly jaded or living where I do has made me into a massive contrarian who has to argue everything
#I get the arguing from my dad tho bc he always has to argue a point#Even if the point is stupid or wrong#And I have to argue with my mom because she can be incredibly bull-headed#I was arguing (playfully) with a friend today about proper driving etiquette which was... Actually horrifying. Her views on driving are.#She almost hit someone backing out of a parking spot without looking (not even looking at her backup camera screen)#And said he was the one in the wrong for... walking past her car that he saw us get in.#And this is apparently after she's been in a wreck bad enough to give her PTSD for a time.#🙃 why is my life.
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the explosion of e-cigarettes is the tobacco industry's response to marijuana's slow legalization. alcohol too, in the sense that I'm sure there are plenty of scumbags in both industries who ditched it to profit off of hooking young people on vapes instead.
altho honestly? that also applies to a lot of failed corporate cannabis scumbags too
I know I sound like your mom but you kids need to stop fucking vaping
#basically no one making money off vaping is someone you should entrust any internal organs with#i really worry about younger folx these days#health-wise specifically#y'all are Of Age in one of the most deregulated periods of mass consumption#its concerning#and ASK before you vape indoors cars infuckingcluded jfc#how did basic smoking etiquette disappear with e-cigs#like i literally cant fathom blazing or vaping thc for that matter indoors#without checking with ppl who would be breathing it in secondhand#there have always been inconsiderate smokers but it's worse now w the It's Just Vaping perception
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Dacă lovești o mașină, trebuie să anunți? 🧊🚗
Dacă lovești o mașină, trebuie să anunți (Spoiler: da, altfel riști să-ți „sară” karma… sau amenda) Imaginează-ți: ești într-o parcare, încerci să ieși de pe loc și… PAC. Ai „atins” bara mașinii din spate. N-ai spart-o, dar ai lăsat un mic semn. Ce faci acum? Pleci repede și speri să nu te fi văzut nimeni? Sau… anunți? Hai să lămurim dilema: dacă lovești o mașină (chiar și puțin), ești obligat să…
#accident usor masina parcata#ar accident responsibility#bam#car etiquette parking#car hit and run#car incident rules#ce faci daca atingi masina#constatare amiabila parcare#diagnoza#do I need to report car damage#driving responsibility#fugi de la locul accidentului#hit parked car what to do#leave contact after damage#lovire masina parcare#masina zgariata in trafic#minor car damage law#neamt#raspundere accidente minore#responsabilitate șoferi#roman#scratch car in parking lot#sfaturi auto etica#trebuie sa anunti politia
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When driving in and around residential areas or anywhere there might be pedestrians, always drive extra carefully, be more mindful of following the speed limit, be extra careful about going around corners or approaching anywhere with pedestrian crossing especially if there's low visibility due to things like bushes and trees. In short, don't be afraid to drive like a little old grandparent anywhere residential where there might be pedestrians.
Speed limits are lower in residential areas for a reason, and that's because it reduces pedestrian injuries and deaths when you drive more carefully when people might be around and crossing the street. You never know when a small child chasing a ball or a pet who broke loose from the house might run into the street, and your abiding the speed limit and driving mindfully could be the difference between life and death in these scenarios. Even if a fully grown adult is just walking or biking to the store they deserve to do so safely without being injured or killed by a speeding car whipping around corners without looking where they're going.
This all also applies to other motorized forms of transportation, such as electric scooters, as you're also at risk of hitting and injuring or even killing pedestrians and cyclists.
#I've mentioned before that I don't own a car#so I'm pretty dependent on walking and biking#and I nearly get hit every other day because of how much people just LOVE speeding and whipping around corners and through crosswalks#without looking#at least where I live#I've even seen kids on their bikes getting hit by cars and LUCKILY surviving with mild injuries#in residential areas!#because people love speeding and driving recklessly even in residential areas sooo much here#manners#politeness#courtesy#good manners#etiquette
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As an “older lady” I appreciate the etiquette clarification.
Perfect Behavior, Donald Ogden Stewart, 1922
#1920s#jazz age#etiquette#advice#donald ogden stewart#don’t run me over please#avoiding street cars and motor vehicles
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The coffeehouse I'm in apparently has the ultimate '80s Power Ballad mix playing. In the past 45 minutes: "Saving All My Love for You," "Wind Beneath My Wings," "Total Eclipse of the Heart", "Eternal Flame," and "I've Had the Time of My Life."
ETA: "Livin' on a Prayer" just came on. I'm afraid I am about to leave the shop and cannot wait for "The Final Countdown."
#also: i wanna dance with somebody which is not a power ballad but is definitely a Definitive Overwhelming Sound of Its Time and makes it of#a piece#only 140 characters for tags? c'mon tumblr how am i supposed to leave long unnecessary parenthetical notes#anyhow man i remember when i wanna dance with somebody had its heyday#blaring from my mother's car stereo on the way to & from her dates#playing on newfangled CD! on the boombox my dad got me for my birthday at the restaurant where were were celebrating#(etiquette re: music volume was lax in the days of boomboxes)#(though i remember being concerned about being inconsiderate)#(and my dad totally not caring)#anyhow that song was The Sound of an Era when it was hot#can't quite remember anything like it
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heretic is uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a movie lol
#musings#really im just glad i went so that my nonbinary friend and i could bond in the car about being forced out by our closest relationships#it's really amazing how much well-meaning cisstraight liberals will overwrite coming out etiquette with their family relationships#like -- HELLO -- i know you know better than this. like what the fuck
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Shotgun Hierarchy
As the go-to driver in my friend group, I've developed some opinions on who gets priority to the coveted front passenger seat. If two or more people fill the seat in the hierarchy, look to the next rung on who gets precedent.
1. Partner. First and foremost, the driver's partner gets first pick of the front seat. This gives optimal positioning for handholding, catching glances of them in the sunset, and in the event of a bench front seat, having them lean on you as you drive.
2. Bestie. Your best friend is next in line. They've been by you side through life, they get to be by your side in the car. This way, you can BS to your heart's content.
3. Guest of Honor. If the purpose of the trip is to celebrate someone, they get front row seating. Birthday girls, brides-to-be, graduates, etc. If it's their day, it's their seat.
4. Co-pilot. On longer trips, shotgun goes to the person who is going to be your most proficient co-pilot. Directions, DJing, snack distribution; these are all the responsibility of shotgun.
4b. Conversationalist. An extension of the co-pilot, this category is specifically for the long haul, especially overnight. Their job is to keep talking with you to keep you lucid. Long stretches in silence wear on the soul.
5. Last one out of liberty city. If the purpose of the trip is dropping people off, shotgun goes to the last one getting out. It gets awkward when the last one in the car is in the way back.
6. Hitchhiking ghosts. Nough said.
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