#like the brake check

[ceilidho]

ghost being a terrible driver is so funny 💀💀 he wouldn’t even care that he’s giving other people road rage, he’d just slowly blink at them like a cat before driving away.

i think even in the sexier version where he's not an absolute maniac on the road (like driving the wrong way down one-way streets, rear ending people that he thinks are driving too slow, cutting people off to prove a point, etc), he still does things like that LMAO. he should NOT have been given clearance to purchase a vehicle.

[vampyroteuthid]

i drove the car and did not wreck it or even have a panic attack 👍🏻 160k miles 2006 (? probably) subaru impreza awd automatic. my friend is hoping to get the guy to sell it for $1700-2000. if not that's honestly fine because driving is the worst activity on earth

[dangerous-disposition]

so i was watching some of my dashcam footage that i deliberately saved bc of Calgary Driver Shenanigans taking place in proximity to me and i straight up hate people who brake-check so much

pulling that shit is so dangerous, even at "low" speeds. and even if someone is riding your asshole hard, you don't brake-check them. as soon as you do a brake-check, you have now made yourself the more reckless driver in that equation.

you should never, ever do something to deliberately cause a collision when operating heavy machinery.

like, i cannot even fathom the kind of self-absorbed loser you have to be to play chicken like that in a way that could get someone fucking killed.

just... like... i keep thinking back to this accident that happened here one or two years ago, where a pick-up truck brake-checked a minivan on the highway in less than ideal driving conditions and the van spun out, and then rolled multiple times into the ditch, and one of the children in the van was ejected. the pick-up truck didn't even stop and as far as i'm aware was never even found. like that driver fucking killed a kid.... and for what? the driver of the van maybe pissed them off? was driving a bit too close? like please, if you are someone who brake-checks because you assume you'll be just fine if you get hit bc "lol i'm insured" you should always assume that the worse possible outcome could happen. when operating heavy machinery going more than 20mph around other people also operating heavy machinery going the same or higher speeds, you should always be thinking about the worst case scenario of pulling a dumbass move that affects multiple ppl.

like when you brake-check someone, you think this is a tussle that's just between you and that person, yeah? and you feel justified because maybe this person is driving too close, or they seem distracted, or maybe they pissed you off earlier, right? Oh, but I bet you looked all around, considered all of the variables, and determined that should an accident occur, it's only the two of you that's gonna have your day ruined, right? I'm sure you're cocky enough to think that. Like I'm positive (sarcastic) you've thought about all of these things before brake-checking:

the other vehicles in the road other than you and the person behind you

is there a big truck behind the person behind you that is going to have a fucking heart attack trying to stop?

the road conditions in general

what if the driver behind you doesn't have new tires? what if one of their tires blows out trying to brake and they spin out?

are their pedestrians you might be endangering if your stupid move causes an accident?

what if the other driver has kids in the car? passengers in general? your beef is with the driver, but causing an accident would be punishing their innocent passengers too

what if the accident you cause totals your car? are you able to be without a car?

what if the accident totals the other person's car? what if their livelihood depends on them having a car?

what if the other person doesn't have insurance? yeah, that's illegal, but it does you no good. if you think your insurance is going to pick up the tab in that case with no fight at all, you're naive as fuck. like unless you have complete car insurance and not just liability insurance, your insurance company will fucking fight any claim you make. even with complete car insurance, they fight claims. remember, car insurance companies are in the business of hoarding the money you pay them. they do not actually want to pay out.

what if the other driver has a dashcam and can definitively prove that you braked for no reason other than to endanger literally everyone else on the road?

like that's just some of the things to fucking consider re: brake-checking. and when the list of risks is that long while incomplete, what do you even gain by brake-checking?

brake-checking is petty, stupid, and fucking reckless. it can seriously injure people that aren't even involved in your beef, and it can even kill people. brake-checking is some of the most self-absorbed behaviour to have behind the wheel, and people who do it are fucking losers.

period.

even if the other driver is following too close, or driving aggressively. you don't make an already dangerous situation even more dangerous oh my fucking god like why isn't that common fucking sense.

[avatardoggo]

waiting for a guy to call you back is such An Experience ™️

[081098]

driving turns me into a different person. i use the word 'tesla' like it's derogatory

[sage-nebula]

When I was driving home tonight there was this car tailgating me (we were going into the construction part of the highway where there are only two lanes and I was already going 10mph over so I wasn't going to do anything about it), and it turns out they were tailgating me because they were trying to get away from this other car tailgating them.

The other car was a some kind of old, beatup red car, and I know this because it pulled a dangerous manuever in the only-two-lanes zone to weave through traffic, catch up to, and cut me off without using his turn signal at all for any of it. And then he did this aggressive wave in his rearview that I'm 97% sure was him flipping me off given the context of the other behavior.

So I flipped him off back.

And then he flipped me off again, so I flipped him off a second time.

At that point he sped off and changed to the other lane so you'd think that would be the end of it. But his exit came before mine, so he got caught behind slower traffic and I guess realized I'd end up passing him. So he stuck his arm out his window to flip me off a third time, and also leaned his face partway out his window to yell something. I had my windows up, though, and music playing (I was listening to this), so I couldn't hear him; I just kept my head forward and flipped him off again as I passed him.

Anyway, from my brief glimpse he looked kind of like this:

[alarming-prism]

everything i've ever learned about cars has been against my will

[stillthewc]

What if... I procrastinated reading a certain chapter of a really good fangan by drawing fan art for it? Haha, just kidding... unless...?

Anyways, here's Kai Dagonet from Danganronpa Wonderland, a fangan I found near the end of 2023, and one I've been binging like crazy lately. Sadly, I don't know if the creator of this fangan has a Tumblr account on here (nor the person who created Kai in the first place), but here's the story he's in.

Also, because I feel like this particular piece benefits from being background-less, there's a version of that below the cut!

[marklikely]

like you cannot believe how stupid this shit is unless its happened to you. last month i went from spending a long weekend w one of my beloved friends, going to cons w other friends, and just generally having a great time to 8 hours later having a week long breakdown where i was going back to [redacted] fantasies and do you know what caused it???? a glass animals song came on shuffle on my drive home from work.

[bunnyb34r]

Boy oh boy my car is gonna be a shitload of money (: yay

[vastappenen]

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[cloud-somersault]

car repairs wait what happened to your car 😭

nothing happened! i just went in to get an oil change and just wanted a comprehensive check up. And they found the rear breaks needed repairing (i had a feeling some of my brakes were going bad) and so i paid for that. and the oil change. and uhhh everything else is looking really good!!!

[cowardlycowboys]

no offense to beckett love her too pieces but she sure picked a hell of a time to die

[solstheimtxt]

Why is it every single time I see a vehicle driving w no headlights or taillights (or drls for that matter), is it, without fail, EVERY SINGLE TIME a Mazda CX-5. Like, do they scoop your fucking brain out when you buy the vehicle? Is there like a discount if you've been lobotomized or???

[woundedheartwithin]

Today’s adventure involved manhandling a trailer, minor electrical engineering, brake light checks, and one very upset goat

Sound on for Stormy’s sweet little “mmm” sounds

[kawaiiboushi]

how do people not feel utterly humiliated about having road rage