Rather stunning admission that people run red lights. I will however pass on a double yellow line if the car/truck/tractor in front is going WAY below the speed limit. You sort of have to. And IF you know the road, you know where you can do it safely.
It’s odd, passing zones and no passing zones are inconsistent and poorly thought out. Most often I will come upon a ‘passing’ zone that should be a ‘no way in hell’ passing zone. There are a few of these on routes I drive frequently (Colorado Mountains).
NItpick: A passing zone is a stretch on a mostly two lane highway that widens to insert a third lane for a couple or three miles. It’s (mostly) perfectly safe to pass in a passing zone because the extra lane is only for use by traffic traveling in one direction. Usually there will be a passing zone for eastbound traffic followed by one for westbound traffic (or vice versa or north/south). Less commonly the road will temporarily widen to 4 lanes to allow both directions to pass safely. It’s still legal to pass outside the passing zone (unless it’s designated a no passing zone), just not as safe.
I do agree that sometimes there are stretches that should be marked no passing, but aren’t (most of highway 7 going into Hot Springs comes to mind).
At the apartment laundry complex, they are labelled the other way around and people ignore that as well. So I go with the flow and clean before the load rather than after.
Never insert a foreign object into your ears? Bull. I’ve been scratching my itchy ear canals for decades. I use the loop end of a safety pin to dig out ear wax, and at checkups the doctors always remark how clean my ears are.
I never bother to dilute bleach or other cleaners; I just put a little on a wet sponge and rinse thoroughly when I’m done.
Don’t pop zits? Of course I do. And I don’t even have a crater face either.
This is more of a schism than a heresy, but I’m currently on a low-carb diet that is almost the opposite of most dietary advice. I’ve lost 30 pounds in four months.
I only shower like twice a month, and I never use soap; but I don’t stink. My hypothesis is that since I don’t constantly sterilize my skin, my skin flora have long since come to a healthy equilibrium. When my hair starts to get too greasy I use cornstarch as dry shampoo.
I don’t see that from that calculator. 6.5 oz just shows “mild reaction” to me from that. I also feed my dog milk chocolate from time to time. He’s 80 lbs. From that cite, even a half pound is minimal-to-no-reaction. Maxing it out at 20 oz is still “mild reaction.” I’m not particularly worried.
Now, Baker’s chocolate or cocoa powder is a completely different thing.
I replace toothbrushes when I damn well feel like it
I dont ever check the smoke detectors unless the little light goes off or the stupid annoying beep starts up
I never sort colors anymore. Detergents seem to know what to do. (My sister-in-law loves the color red, she will always be sorting those out. Probably an old habit)
Why? Running a left-turn red light when you have unlimited visibility of the opposing lanes is MUCH safer than driving even 1 MPH over the speed limit in a residential neighborhood, where a child may pop out from behind a parked car at any moment. And yet, I’ll bet everybody tutting about the light drives 5 or 10 MPH over the speed limit frequently.
ETA: I don’t, at least not in residential neighborhoods. And when it’s safe to do so, I drive down the middle of the street instead of staying on the right, for the same reason.
Nitpick-nitpick: A widened point on a two-lane highway for the insertion of a third lane is a “Passing Lane”. A passing zone is a portion of a two-lane highway designated as being safe to pass due to good sight distances allowing for safety when passing slower traffic, which can definitely seem to be (to put it charitably) poorly thought out in mountainous regions.
