# You fucking CUNT! WHY THE FUCK WOULD YOU OPEN A FUCKING CAR DOOR WITHOUT LOOKING? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 13, 2005, 10:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851 "2005-08-13T10:07:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/81 "2005-08-14T01:11:05Z")
> [@E-Sabbath](#): > > You want fun? Rockaway, huh? Try Queens Boulevard. There’s a Dunkin Doughnuts nearby. You get the people parked. > You get the doughnut truck double-parked. > You get the fire-engine triple-parked. > And you get the cop cars quadruple-parked. > > Welcome to driving in Queens. Are you talking about the DD across from the Courthouse? The area around CompUSA is designed specifically to remove pedestrians from this mortal coil. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/82 "2005-08-14T01:36:37Z")
**DSotF** - You have my sympathy. I have had more than my share of these. As a motorcycle rider I tend to look ahead into the parked cars in situations like these and if the is a head above the seat in the drivers side. I watch it _veerry_ closely expecting this kind of stupidity. Seeing that the car is occupied and anticipating a dumb move has saved me more than a few times. On the up side, this was so bad on you it probably made an impression for life. It may make you better at checking your mirrors before opening a door now that you will be exiting a car from the drivers side. That, along with looking into the cars and anticipating may in fact save you (or some dumbass) from real injury in the future. ---
**Author:** ![Nic2004](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/4491bb/32.png) [@Nic2004](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nic2004)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/83 "2005-08-14T01:38:44Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > The area… is designed specifically to remove pedestrians from this mortal coil. I truely love a well turned phrase. Nicely put. ---
**Author:** ![Wolfian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7ea924/32.png) [@Wolfian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfian)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/84 "2005-08-14T02:43:23Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > BTW, thanks for getting this right. So many use **cosmodan** :smack: Er, my dog’s name is Cosmo and, and…, oh fuck. My bad. ---
**Author:** ![cosmosdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a6a055/32.png) [@cosmosdan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cosmosdan)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/85 "2005-08-14T02:48:55Z")
> [@Wolfian](#): > > :smack: > > Er, my dog’s name is Cosmo and, and…, oh fuck. My bad. No biggie. It happens a lot on SDMB really. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/86 "2005-08-14T04:35:25Z")
> [@ladybug](#): > > \If there’s an upside to your near-accident, it’s that you’ve learned firsthand what many drivers take years to discover: the roads are full of idiots.\ Yup. This is the honest-to-God truth. Also, driving is an extremely dangerous activity, that most people take completely for granted. My young driver near-miss was nearly killing a highway worker when he darted across the highway to go after his hat that was blown off by the wind. He was in an unmarked truck, no blinkers, no construction zone signs, no nothing, so I didn’t know what was going on, and he just ran out without looking. He looked at me sailing by in my car, about two feet from him, I looked at him turning white as a ghost and probably filling his drawers, and that’s when that lesson was driven home to me. Scared the crap out of me, too, to think how quickly and easily a car can kill. Your task after having this experience - make every habit you develop for driving a good habit. Never, ever take shortcuts, especially once you get comfortable driving. Driving is far too dangerous to half-ass it. For the record, the driver who flings their door open without looking is in the wrong here, too. ---
**Author:** ![E-Sabbath](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e19adc/32.png) [@E-Sabbath](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-Sabbath)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/87 "2005-08-14T05:18:21Z")
> [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > Queens Boulevard. The reason why the city has fenced off medians to prevent people from jaywalking. :rolleyes: Fun, fun boulevard. How wide is it again? 9 lanes? It’s kind of… indefinately wide. The-o-retically, ranges from six to eight-… sometimes ten, if you count the feeders. This has little to no resemblance to how many cars may be driving on it in a column. ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/88 "2005-08-14T05:22:19Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > For the record, the driver who flings their door open without looking is in the wrong here, too. Big time, especially since said driver already obstructed the flow of traffic by double parking. I don’t see much wiggle room for ambiguity about this rant, though Pitizens rarely fail to amaze for forensic cussedness. All-too-frequent idiots with death wishes still raise my blood pressure and lower my vocabulary noticeably, even after years of driving. So many of 'em still bumble around cluelessly because most of us don’t wanna be the ones to actually Darwinize them. Don’t sweat it, **DSotF**. You did fine–and so did your Drivers’ Ed teacher, who probably was cussing a blue streak internally too. Veb ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/89 "2005-08-14T05:28:30Z")
> [@TVeblen](#): > > So many of 'em still bumble around cluelessly because most of us don’t wanna be the ones to actually Darwinize them. Speaking for myself, I wouldn’t mind Darwinizing them (how nice, now it’s a verb), if it weren’t for the spike in insurance rates if I did so. ---
**Author:** ![jasonh300](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/46a35a/32.png) [@jasonh300](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasonh300)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/90 "2005-08-14T06:04:38Z")
> [@Left Hand of Dorkness](#): > > No, I mean, I wonder whether using “double parked” to refer to people parked halfway in two different spaces is a regional thing. I checked a few different online dictionaries, and none of them included the definition I’d always used before, but given that a few people here have said that they used my old definition, I’m thinking there’s more to it than just me being an idiot. > > Daniel I meant that if you live in a place where people don’t double park, the term could take on a new meaning. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 6:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/91 "2005-08-14T06:46:25Z")
> [@Roland Orzabal](#): > > Nothing particularly constructive to add; I just wanted to mention that I have only ever heard “double parked” to mean what Daniel originally thought it meant (“occupying two legal spaces at once”), [like so](http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jeffrey/dpics/20020810-colorado/04-kevin's-version-of-double-parked.jpg). Mayhaps we’ve found the next “…another thin(g/k) coming”? That’s how I originally learned it too… but, I grew up (and learned to drive) in the suburbs, where parallel parking was virtually non-existant and it was all mall parking, either either head-in or angle-in. And the parking sin was taking up two spaces, instead of merely the one you’re entitled to. I didn’t see double-parking as mentioned by the OP until I visited a much bigger, east coast city. ---
**Author:** ![Critical1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3e96dc/32.png) [@Critical1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Critical1)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/92 "2005-08-14T06:49:25Z")
I teach defensive driving, I could just about do my job just driving around with students and saying “Dont drive like that” the entire time. couple things the stupid twit opened her door into traffic, afik this is illegal world wide. you almost had yourself an assisted suicide, its completely normal for you to be really freaked out. I had a job where part of the description should have been “dont run over the suicidal dumbfucks you work with” after a few scares you get less freaked out, it always sucks though. you and your instructor showed some nice restraint. the last time I had this kind of experience (some dumb bitch tries to kill herself with my moving car and talks shit to me) I called her a stupid festering cunt to her face. I pointed out the cross walk 15 ’ away, I pointed out the green light in my favor, I pointed out that its technically _Leagal_ for me to run her stupid ass over after she walked out from behind a large truck directly infront of my car and no jurry in the world would convict me. no I dont talk like that around my kids, but things like that make me wish I was a bit more homicidal. dipshits like that deserve a short life with a painful death…it would save the rest of us the agony of dealing with them. ---
**Author:** ![Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ec9cab/32.png) [@Ink\_a\_dink\_a\_dink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ink_a_dink_a_dink)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/93 "2005-08-14T12:03:30Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > Look at the post below yours. Now would be a good time to retract your insult. If I overreacted, forgive me. But it seemed a lot of people misunderstood and attacked poster for being in the wrong. If you park in a driving lane, expect a few choice words from me, and I can be more original than said driving instructor. But as I said, if I am out of line, never be it said that I will not be the first to retract my “oopsie”. Still think the lady was a cunt. :It’s MY road…drive around!: This sense of road entitilement is just horrid. And it seems expecially prevalent in CA. In the Midwest, people were polite, made room for you to merge, waved you through an intersection and generally went out of their way. When I get my license back in April, I am seriously doubting driving in CA. For that matter, I am seriously doubting staying in CA. Inky Having a \*\*bad bad bad bad \*\* time of it, and not ashamed to admit it. ---
**Author:** ![rorty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@rorty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rorty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/94 "2005-08-14T12:21:16Z")
> [@Mama Tiger](#): > > **rorty** , I think you need to read the OP again. Nowhere does it say the instructor yelled at her. The double-parked moron was the only one who yelled. At least blame the right people for acting like morons. Excuse me, the OP was rather ambiguous as to who was doing the yelling. I think you need to read the OP again and tell me it couldn’t be taken both ways. The first response to this thread seems to have thought the same as I did. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/95 "2005-08-14T12:22:55Z")
What ambiguity? The OP clearly said that the instructor slammed on the brakes and that the parking offender was the one doing the yelling. ---
**Author:** ![rorty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@rorty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rorty)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/96 "2005-08-14T12:40:40Z")
> [@Monty](#): > > What ambiguity? The OP clearly said that the instructor slammed on the brakes and that the parking offender was the one doing the yelling. **Monty** , the OP does not clearly state who was doing the yelling. > [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > The instructor SLAMS on the brakes, and then, the goddamned whore starts yelling at ME for almost hitting her! I read this as saying the instructor slammed on the breaks and then yelled at **DSotF**. I thought **DSotF** was referring to her instructor as a goddamned whore for almost hitting “her” (the double-parked woman). The ambiguity is found in differentiating “the instructor” and “goddamned whore” as individual subjects. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/97 "2005-08-14T13:06:48Z")
I’m sorry… ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/98 "2005-08-14T13:07:53Z")
I had no problem reading it as the OP intended the first time through (the door opener = “goddamned whore”), but looking over **rorty** ’s post, I’ll now accept the fact that the second clause’s subject is ambiguous, _if taken alone._ Given the closing sentence of the preceding paragraph, however, > [@DarkSideoftheFloyd](#): > > On Rockaway Boulevard, all of a sudden, this maggoty cuntdripping (who double-parked, by the way) flings open her car door and GETS OUT without looking. it really takes a leap of logic to not equate "maggoty cuntdripping _(lacks noun)_ with “goddamned whore”. ---
**Author:** ![MandaJo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ac91a4/32.png) [@MandaJo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MandaJo)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/99 "2005-08-14T13:10:11Z")
> [@D\_Odds](#): > > I had no problem reading it as the OP intended the first time through (the door opener = “goddamned whore”), but looking over **rorty** ’s post, I’ll now accept the fact that the second clause’s subject is ambiguous, _if taken alone._ > > Given the closing sentence of the preceding paragraph, however, it really takes a leap of logic to not equate "maggoty cuntdripping _(lacks noun)_ with “goddamned whore”. “[C]untdripping” is clearly a gerund there. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2005, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851/100 "2005-08-14T13:10:42Z")
> [@Ink a dink a dink](#): > > If you park in a driving lane, expect a few choice words from me, and I can be more original than said driving instructor. As I read it, the driving instructor did not use and “choice” words, just the nearly-road pizza woman exiting her car. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-fucking-cunt-why-the-fuck-would-you-open-a-fucking-car-door-without-looking/316851.md?page=6)