to what extent does your life revolve around alcohol?

I once took my partner's mobility scooter for a very fun test drive, that was basically a mini golf cart - but one that you you are permitted to ride on the pavements. There was plenty of beer storage space on the back as well!

It's like a preserve for old white people.

Cryogenics iirc

our city just got those Bird scooters and on summer nights you can see plenty of clearly drunk people riding them all over the downtown. I saw one flip over a parked car but he seemed okay. only a matter of time before someone gets severely injured on one of those things. you're probably safer in your car.

I am a frequent pedestrian and bike commuter. My neighborhood is rife with app-rented scooters and bikes. Come Sunday morning they litter the sidewalks like dying cicadas.

With all respect to frogbs I don't think it's feasible (or even necessary) to apply the same sobriety standards to rent-a-scooters as cars.

Sorry if this sounds ghoulish and cynical but: if someone is driving drunk I would rather they be doing so on a 40-pound motorized skateboard than a two-ton Death Machine. If they get injured it will be their own damn fault; if they get involved in a crash with a car or a telephone pole or a wall or whatever it will most likely be them who gets injured and/or dead.

In my ideal world, of course every tipsy person would just poke the Lyft / Uber icon or find a taxi.

Given that there's still a hard core of people who just can't stop making terrible decisions, I am okay with having their terrible decisions mostly affect themselves (and as few other people as possible).

admittedly it's kinda funny to see people wipe out in these things while drunk, provided they just get up and walk away. its like when a cat totally biffs a long jump and just struts away like nothing happened

all these non-drivers need to stop rolling the dice putting their lives in my hands lol

lol that sounds like I drive drunk or something, I just meant people on non-motorized vehicles doing dumb shit in cities

Getting a bit off topic, but the most terrifying vehicles in NYC are the delivery guys on e-bikes. They are silent, they move fast, they tend to ride next to the sidewalk or between rows of cars where they are harder to see, and they tend not to obey traffic signals.

lol that sounds like I drive drunk or something, I just meant people on non-motorized vehicles doing dumb shit in cities

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, February 10, 2023 2:31 PM (nine minutes ago)

why do you drive a car in the city

Day drinking>night drinking

Heellll no

day drinking leads to night drinking, in my experience

Yeah, clearly not.
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idk, if anything day drinking leads to passing out by 5pm.

why do you drive a car in the city

― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby)

you know, i bite my tongue not to say this every single time someone complains about driving in the city, or just mentions driving in the city in whatever context. i gotta learn to be more confrontational.

Xpost It fucks my entire day plus the evening is my reward for being productive during the day

I'd love not to drive in the city, believe me, if my city's idea of public transportation wasn't an awful bus system that often shows up to stops hours late, drives by them outright or doesn't show up at all, or are full with no room to board when they show up...

Or a rail system which doesn't run on weekends and has only a small number of boarding stations

Or take Ubers and Lyfts, which is just outsourcing driving in the city.

While an occasional drive in a quiet road can be nice, can't tell you how many times I went out for a drive to clear my head and what happened in the drive resulted in me getting stressed out more.

Excited about the expansion to Bright line long distance rail, but I would dream about selling my car (which I own) if I could do it. I like jamming tunes but drivers here are sociopaths.

The thing that always makes me happy about my visits to NYC are just walking and subwaying everywhere.

Heh, well, it's easy for me to say cause I don't know how to drive. I walked everywhere even when I lived in the burbs.

There's nothing like carrying 40lbs of groceries 3 miles back to your house on a sweltering day in August.

I get the transit fatigue, believe me. Trying to get home in the middle of the night on the barely functioning subway system, I mean, I was through with going out before I even turned 21.

I tried our local bus once out of necessity when my car was towed, how bad could it be, $2 all u can ride. It took me two hours to arrive at the tow place, which was five miles away, due to a) the inane routes leading to 70 transfers and b) one of the buses blew the stop and I had to wait for the next.

Wound up having to lead a conference call on the bus that day cos I got back so late. My project manager asked me where the Hell I was due to the noise lol

lol that sounds like I drive drunk or something, I just meant people on non-motorized vehicles doing dumb shit in cities

― not too strange just bad audio (brimstead), Friday, February 10, 2023 2:31 PM (nine minutes ago)

why do you drive a car in the city

people tend to do things like drive cars and drink alcohol because it’s makes them feel comfortable but I don’t know, we can’t be having that

Man I hate my life. Lol.

I have a buddy who's a notoriously prolific drunk driver (and got caught once).. but he recently started dating a woman who has zero tolerance for it, and lo & behold - now he's walking everywhere (which is mostly what I do)

Pretty sure I'm going to die at the hands of a motorist while walking down the side of a road that's unsuitable for pedestrians, I do that shit all the time and no matter how cautious I am, it's dicey.

lol at the conference call on a bus.

I have always felt that if I get hit by a car and survive I get a big payday and if I get hit by a car and die then I won’t be around to care meanwhile the driver will have to live with themself so I really come off better

very fatalistic lol

you could also get hit by an uninsured hit & run driver and get nothing but lifelong paralysis

I'm honestly counting on early death by vehicular manslaughter, I have no idea how I'm going to provide for myself in my old age otherwise.

Neando I think you should do all your conference calls from increasingly outlandish locations going forward just to mess with the project manager.

'Are you at.. are you at a bullfight??'

I was walking back to my car once after seeing Slayer at the Jaguars stadium and I was kinda in the road cos there was no actual sidewalk and one of the cops yelled at me "are u nuts being in the street, just about everyone driving is drunker than hell" and I yelled back "then I'm no safer on the sidewalk either" and kept going

Died and hour later, RIP me

angel of death!

ME (getting ready for dinner out this weekend with friends): "I'm going to try not to drink a cocktail before dinner."
WIFE (laughing): "I'm going to try TO drink a cocktail before dinner."