>the asshole

Welcome to Paris!


We got to saw a good example of distracted idiot once, the guy had his bare left foot resting next to the wheel. Hope he had an automatic transmission (probably not, manual is ridiculously popular in France).

"I was rear-ended around January and the excuse she gave was "the sun blocked my eyes""
Not even an excuse. You have sunglasses and other sun blocker things to avoid exactly that.


Anyway, I had an accident with a kind of speeder while I was practicing. Didn't help my self-confidence, even though the guy was in the wrong.

Was entering a big, fast, double-lane roundabout. The driving school idiots tell you to go on the left lane if you're going to travel through more than half the roundabout. On these fast roundabouts, it's a big mistake-- if you stay on the right, you only have to watch the right lane and you can enter the roundabout without too much trouble. But if you go on the left, you need to enter when BOTH lanes are 'good'.

So I tried to get back to the right, ugly maneuver but no issue there. I managed to enter the roundabout without trouble.

Then a guy came from the left, trying to snatch the next exit, and I inevitably crashed into him.

The damage to the cars was minor. The damage to my self-confidence was greater. I stood there dumbfounded, not knowing what to do, not standing up for myself or anything. Good thing mom was with me and took care of the situation.

The guy tried to lie, selling it off as "you abruptly entered the roundabout and didn't let me priority". Which was full of shit as we were already well entered in the roundabout.

Oh well.


There's no law about the fast lane here, it's just said that "you should be in the rightmost lane", but staying in the fast line isn't punishable. This is bound to happen during traffic jams anyway, people try going as far as possible by taking up all the space available.


I haven't driven a car or anything since I got my license. I don't like driving. Really feels like you constantly have to care about everything, which drains my energy. And even then, I fear getting into some horrible accident where I end up stuck in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. You have no control over what idiots do.

Admittedly, this could also happen while not driving. I guess I should stop envisioning worst-case scenarios.

Driving school hasn't helped me either. It's really like, if there's as much as a pebble on the road, OMG SLOW DOWN ASJHFGSJKDKASHGAJHKFGSHKFHSD!!!!!


Fun side note on horn usage.
Theory: you use the horn where there's imminent danger. ie when an idiot is about to back into you.
Reality: you use the horn to yell at idiots. Which also includes the aforementioned case anyway.


As a last fun note, a sign screwup that happened in the shithole: (it was corrected the next day tho)


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Posted by LeftyGreenMario

My mom said that people in France view driving as competitive, so she was surprised when she was in the U.S.

Anyway, just today, I saw two drivers were serving in and out like crazy. They both happened to be men, huh. They probably fall into the "speeder" category.

I also encountered a pickup truck where NONE of its back lights were working, so I kept a pretty big distance behind it. I was tempted to pass it, but I was patient.

Reminds me of mom's story driving in USA.

She was at an intersection with STOP signs at each way. Every time, people from one of the ways would pass, and after a certain number, yield to the next way.

Sounds really nice.

In France you sometimes have to engage your car to the point of nearly running into someone else's. In a crowded intersection, the implicit rule is one-one, but some dickbags swear by the official priority rule and are going to go to any length to enjoy their priority.

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Pokémon Go looks like another thing created to make humans dumber to me...

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People going out more is pointless if all they do is gaze at their phone instead of socializing.

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Walking with your phone in your hand? It's like shouting PLEASE STEAL MY PHONE.

meh. dunno. my feelings are mixed.

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