Arkansas doesn’t require driver’s ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don’t understand how it works, etc. I’ve lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.
They do that shit in Florida often enough as well. Mostly the same reason. People who don’t, or legally should not, have a license.
A good driver NEVER misses their exit.
A day? In New England we say if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it’ll change. And Boston drivers aren’t bad, just aggressive. New Jersey drivers are bad.
Pennsylvania drivers take the cake. NJ is a mishmash.
‘don’t like the weather, wait an hour.’, every state i’ve been to.
You’ve never been to so cal, we always just say isn’t the weather perfect here.
Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It’s the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don’t know to drive.
Do you live in PA DE VA or WVA by chance
VA 😉
Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be “polite”, not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they’re good they’re competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you’re trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
I knew it , I’m in the state that causes all the havoc!
Every day I start the car I gotta slap my face and look in the mirror and pump myself up
If it makes you feel better, I think you guys are a better state in almost every other way but driving 😂
edit: Genuinely y’all might have the best state flag in the nation, and that’s coming from a Virginian and our flag is pretty fucking great
Nah drivers in my state don’t know how to drive either
Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.
If desperately needs to enter the monsoon season as well
There is an exceptional drought occurring
You got at least a month before irregular rains, and 2 months before the wet season actually starts.
What are the estuaryies looking like?
In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.
Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and rode home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.
Would you happen to be somewhere near east Tennessee/north Carolina? Same exact thing happened here
Are the people in your city also famous for crashing cars into buildings at an alarming rate?
Seriously Colorado though:
Rest of the world panicking for Colorado for a second
Yea Colorado is peak “four seasons in one day” territory sometimes
SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona’s drivers are much worse.
I was going to say everywhere but San Diego. I would describe the weather there as room temperature.
NorCal here. Weather here isn’t great but it’s very predictable.
Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO…IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.
I actually moved here from Tulsa so I know very well what you mean lol. Left Tulsa 2 years ago after 15 years. I miss the thunderstorms but literally nothing else lol.
LOL perfect. The thunderstorms were the only thing I missed when I lived in other places too. Love a good thunderstorm.
A buddy of mine helped his sister move from AZ to Socal, he comes from a family of city-planner types, so he’s constantly going on about roadway designs. He told me that while my area has better constructed roads, and our drivers are terrible, that Socal had worse roads, but great drivers (road discipline wise, at least). Probably sample bias but neat trivia.
The main thing I noticed about Socal drivers is frequent horn use.
Missouri here. Most of this area is valid in making the weather statement. Because we’re right where weather fronts like to meet up at to fight, we will literally get times when the high is 35f one day and then 70f the next. I think last year we had a day that went from 78f to 19f over the course of like half a day.
Washington has the worst drivers on the west coast.
Oregon has the best.
CA and AZ are both pretty average.
Arizona is not on the West Coast
We could be connected to the Gulf of California before too long.
“SoCal weather is so bipolar like one moment it could be hot and sunny and 10 minute drive later it could be cold and cloudy” /s
Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn’t bipolar weather
You must be Southern California. Northern it rains all the time.
Yeah but weather over there fluctuates a lot between on fire and not on fire
A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.
Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.
“If you don’t like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes”
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it’s a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it’s unique to where they live
It’s not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there’s a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
What do people in LA say then? “Well if you don’t like the weather… Get used to it?”
I’ve heard “If you want snow, drive to it,” which is pretty related.
Its really hard to not like the weather in LA
I have heard this almost exclusively for Florida and not any of the surrounding states. Or really I have never heard it about any other states on the Eastern seaboard.
Nah, Florida’s gone from bright, clear, and sunny to “holy fuck, did we forget about a hurricane hitting land?” In the time it’s taken me to go to the bathroom.
Not use the bathroom. Just getting there.
When I lived in Daytona Beach you could count on the 3PM rainstorm.
I don’t think I’ve ever heard this in Ontario
Down by the lake you would.
People say it abt New England, Great Lakes, the South, the Midwest. Literally everywhere I’ve lived, if you don’t like the weather… wait.
Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.
Yeah in Colorado it can be 60 degrees and sunny and snowing in the same day
Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we’re actually pretty good drivers
No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
Unless it’s a little bit too hot and too dry
Well, guess it’s nice to know I’m not giving away my location when I complain.
I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.
They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.
Are you willing to name and shame? Which company was it?
Sorry I thought it was obvious if you think about it.
It was dollar tree. I worked the transition from family dollar-dollar tree- dollar tree plus.
What I can say good about dollar tree is I went from part time cashier on Christmas for extra money to running stores in 6 months. I opened 7 stores, lead the stocking teams, helped out at dozens of stores and was “person you call” when you don’t know who to call. DMs called me. On the other hand i had a mental breakdown (litterly I was hospitalized for close to a month then I moved home with my mother that’s how damaging the work was under that one specific district manager) so dollar tree is a great place to move up but it’s like… Harvey Weinstein…. Yeah he can make you a star but at a cost.
Lol sorry I have ptsd lol
Honestly? Dollar stores are all pretty bad.
In more ways than people realize. I’ve got so many heartbreaking stories.
My record for most drugs found in the bathroom was six baggies of crystal. One of my jobs as GM+ was “he’s been in the bathroom for a really long time… and there’s no noise in there”
“Alright I get the narcan from my car (we weren’t allowed to keep it in the building but sometimes you need narcan)”
Another horrible story is the time I spent all day stomping on baby Jesus. Products have to be destroyed so not peasants can take them out of the trash. Surprisingly a lot of people didn’t want to stomp on Jesus Christmas ornaments. So I went around to all the store to stomp on Jesus for them.
I figure if some place is selling Jesus merch to amass wealth, it’s not intended as a holy item and shouldn’t be treated as one. Stomp away. Lol
That said though, the company demanding damaging product before chucking it is just shit tier behavior.
Actually the worst part of all is people died at stores. Nothing that was our fault but yeah, I saw people die and didn’t even list that as one of the “sad things” it was just a tuesday
Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, “the drivers here are so bad”, “the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot”, “the government sure is poorly run”, “the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid”, “I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle”, and “If they don’t give me a raise this time, I’m going to start a union, I’m serious, working a Chipotle sucks”.
You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.
I totally get that and thought about it. People reading it might think differently and I wanted to warn them. Not specifically you.
Funny story though: my ex wife lived in the same small town as me and she told me “you’re employees were talking shit about you”
“Well yeah… I’m the boss. We all talk shit about our bosses “
“Do you want to know what they said “
“Nope.‘if it’s important they’ll talk me directly “
No one in the southwest say this lol
In monsoon season it’s absolutely ‘the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away’
But they would be correct about having the worst drivers
