# A few Minor Tips for Ensuring Your Painful Death on the Road

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [March 1, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-minor-tips-for-ensuring-your-painful-death-on-the-road/530869 "2010-03-01T16:14:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![smiling\_bandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@smiling\_bandit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smiling_bandit)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-minor-tips-for-ensuring-your-painful-death-on-the-road/530869/21 "2010-03-03T15:38:10Z")

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> [@bannerrefugee](#):
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> All of those things are common as hell. If you can’t deal with these minor challenges perhaps you ought not drive.

Silly person. I was merely offering helpful hints for the public. I don’t see anyone complaining here!

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**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2010, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-minor-tips-for-ensuring-your-painful-death-on-the-road/530869/22 "2010-03-03T17:35:14Z")

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> [@bannerrefugee](#):
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> All of those things are common as hell. If you can’t deal with these minor challenges perhaps you ought not drive.

Complaints about common annoyances are common as hell. If you can’t deal with the occasional thread of this type perhaps you ought not read message boards. (See what I did there?)

Alternatively, you could accept that sometimes people bitch about everyday nuisances, and not hyperbolically conclude that it must be the sole focus of their beings such that the only possible option is to completely re-engineer their lifestyles to avoid certain activities. But that would just be silly.

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**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\
**Post date:** [March 5, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-few-minor-tips-for-ensuring-your-painful-death-on-the-road/530869/23 "2010-03-05T12:07:53Z")

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> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#):
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> Complaints about common annoyances are common as hell. If you can’t deal with the occasional thread of this type perhaps you ought not read message boards. (See what I did there?)
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> Alternatively, you could accept that sometimes people bitch about everyday nuisances, and not hyperbolically conclude that it must be the sole focus of their beings such that the only possible option is to completely re-engineer their lifestyles to avoid certain activities. But that would just be silly.

A waste of time IOW?

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