The first time I ever sawed a turtled vehicle on the freeway, it was a giant SUV. No other vehicles were involved, so I had a bit of trouble figuring out how it rolled over. Later, I saw some video of how easily SUVs can tip over if someone simply makes a sharp avoidance move.
Sees an empty space between two cars; as I pull in I learn it’s blocked with a shopping cart. Try to back out but the minivan behind me is right on my bumper and would require a court order to put it in reverse.
Yeah, so overall, counting all causes of accident, big SUV really arent significantly safer.
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Because we don’t take the “stuff” with us to the store. Given all the complaints about trucks taking up too much parking, I assume leaving our stuff at home would be a good thing. 
I’m more concerned about “head to tail”. After getting rear-ended for the fifth time, my wife demanded that I sell my Corolla and use only my truck. I’m almost certain that, had I been in my little car, the last wreck would have at least left me in a wheelchair (if not dead). I didn’t start this arms race, but I’m a willing participant. Sold the Corolla a few months ago, and now do all my running around in a crew cab long bed. Gas is expensive, but much cheaper than a spine surgeon.
I have to clarify: I’m one of those guys driving an empty pickup all over the place. My throwaway comment was intended as a joke, imagining other people grumbling that question at myself. Apparently I worded it poorly because people keep quoting me here!
Anyway, I rarely haul stuff. The reason I drive a pickup is because as a full-time remote worker (for 14 years) when I bought it I had only considered the need to occasionally haul stuff, and a desire for a more robust vehicle–my VW GTI was a bit of a princess that would blow a tire at the smallest ripple in the pavement.
Unfortunately, our corporate bosses decided we all have to work 2.5 days per week at the office, so I drive over a hundred miles a day on the days I go in.
When I did the math about getting a commuter car, it was so much cheaper just to pay for more gas for the truck.
With that said, I’m driving on the PA Turnpike at frightful speeds, so I feel safer being in a heavy truck than I would in a smaller vehicle. It feels so wasteful, but then so does driving to an office where I don’t know anyone just to satisfy some dumb corporate mandate.
Nevermind the in-office mandate in general (which I agree is very dumb), the two and a half days are insane. I’m infuriated on your behalf!
Make it two, or three, and maybe alternate each week (gets 5 days in over 10 business days) but making everyone do a commute for a half day is such a crazy waste of people’s time, resources, and additionally environmentally irresponsible for so little return!
My “office days” are client site visits, which range from anywhere between two to five times a week and short visits for a single project annoy me much more than all day visits for two or more issues. Otherwise I’m fully remote from my corporate office and immune to mandated in-office days; the 25 hour drive each way is a little excessive!
Things that infuriate you well beyond their actual importance.
This place. 
I wasn’t sure if this was a “woosh” or not, so I’ll play it straight.
They don’t ask us to drive in for a half day; they simply say our numbers should average out to 2.5 days over a rolling 12 week window. They even provided a handy-dandy web page we can go to where we can see the badge data for the past several months and see if we are in danger of getting a nastygram from HR.
Since there actually is one other guy from my tiny group at the site, we have timed things so we do our “long” and “short” weeks at the same time, so at least there is someone to eat lunch with.
Heh, my gf’s ad agency allows her to work from home, but has a new policy about having face-to-face meetings once a week.
That was great when they had their old office, but they now have a new and improved office “almost”. It isn’t ready yet and their old lease expired.
So, they are having pop-up face-to-face meetings in hotel lobbies, Starbucks, parks. It’s really silly.
Of course, they can’t relax the requirement for the meetings until the get into the new office or they wouldn’t be a corporation.
Speaking of parking lots and parking annoyances I don’t mind walking so I like to park at the back of the parking lot so there are lot of empty spaces around me so I do NOT have to deal with any trouble getting in or out.
My annoyance when I do this is when someone still decides to park their car right beside me when there a ten or more empty spaces all around us. They could at least put one space between us as a courtesy.
Another parking lot annoyance of mine–people who leaving their shopping carts in the parking spaces right beside the cart corral when there is plenty of room in it for them.
I’m not trying to play OG here, but I have to point out that the nitrous oxide cylinders (“Galaxy Gas”) being called “whippets” are more properly called “whip-its.” They aren’t dogs. We called them “whip-its” because the most popular ones were from Whip-It! brand devices.
Kids, get your origin stories straight! And stay off my lawn!
The guy who sings out of tune in Burger King commercials: is there a way he can be legally killed?
Another pronunciation issue; it’s pronounced " Fentinill". NOT “Fentinall”. If you’re a politician pretending to give a shit, kindly inform yourself how to say it.
The guy who does “bah-de-bah-de-baah” at the end of McDonald’s commercials.
That guy is Brian Cox:
He provided the voiceover for Virgin TV’s cross-platform advertising campaign promoting its new streamlined service, Virgin TV Anywhere, in January 2017.[153] Cox has also voiced TV ads for McDonald’s since 2020.[154][155] In April 2021, he provided voiceovers for TV ads for the launch of the online property portal Boomin.[156][157]
The part that would annoy me about this is that apparently they can park in front of their house but won’t. I live in a neighborhood with few garages or driveways and there is usually not a lot of choice in parking. But nearly everyone I know prefers to park in front of their own house if possible - and when they don’t, there’s a specific reason. For example, there’s a tree on front of their house and they don’t want to park under it.
Yep, this happened a couple of times- in San Jose someone kept parking a shiny new Mercedes in front of our house. I finally saw them getting out of the car- they lived three doors down, across the street. So I asked them why- they said they didnt want to be a target for robbers. 
I am afraid I got a little angry.
Then here in SoCal, one guy two doors over across the street, always parked his truck in front of our house- when asked he said he wanted to keep his space open for visitors. :roll_eyes
Now sure, sometimes there is a party- like a kids birthday party or something, and a lot of spaces are taken. That’s fine. They had little choice.
CE and BCE instead of AD and BC. Okay, I get- non denominational. Sure. But how about Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, all named after gods?
If you are sincere and not a hypocrite, you’d use- * Duode: The second day
- Tridi: The third day
- Quartidi: The fourth day
- Quintidi: The fifth day
Or twosday, midweek, thirstday, weekend eve. Or other choices.
But if you use CE and Tuesday, you are a big fat hypocrite.