I think old age has hit me… I do this, windows down (though not too loud) and more than happy to make eye contact with people while I sing along. I’ve taken to smiling, thumbs upping good driving behavior, etc, since I feel everyone around me is miserable in 2025.
Welcome to old age. It has its perks. Rock on!
For me, the best part of being old is that hopefully I’ll be dead before the shit really hits the fan.
Alright gramma/gramps, I’m old too but if it’s not a residential area I’m driving through, you’d better believe I’m BLASTIN it (my car came with a sub, too)
…I’m also gramma/gramps because when I’m at a stop light next to someone with their window down or see someone talking on their telephone, I turn my sound down until I’m not near them anymore…
I’m very pro car singing.
Wakeup grabbabrushabittalittlebitofmakeup
YOU WANTO
WHYD YOU LEAVE THE KEYS UP ON THE TABLE.
Table grababrushandputalittletable
Father, into your hands, I commend my TABLE
How did I ever forget about this masterpiece.
I don’t think you trust… in… your… self righteous singing time.
I was once rocking out to heavier shit I am pretty sure I sound like shit singing (specifically Animal I Have Become by 3 Days Grace) while on lunch in my work van just parked somewhere and a woman walked by and complimented me, which of course made me turn it off, roll my windows up, and become a turtle inside my jacket. You know, a normal reaction.
An honest one though lol
SOAD mentioned?!?! I love SOAD :3
If you see disapproval then flip the bird and continue. If you see anything else wave and continue.
Don’t bother being embarrassed for being yourself. Society has proven to be a bit shit, so why cater to how it thinks you should behave?
eh, the car itself is already recording you.
another reason I love my 80s civic wagon.
Can’t say that and not post pics…
its kinda in pieces currently. planning full repaint and upholster. If I remember next time I’m over there I’ll take some
Here’s my 1981 Corolla Tercel… it’s getting a burgundy coat of paint and some sick rims, among other things.damn thats in nice condition. what did you take the photo with?
awesome. i didnt know these existed.
Saw this exact scene on a Chicago interstate one day. Pretty blonde girl was belting it out. She was so joyful it made me feel great. Then she saw me smiling at her and shrunk down in her seat. Great, now I feel bad for cutting of her joy. :(
should have clapped
I wanted to
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my mind immediately went to “its the first of the month” what song even is that
DISORDER!
DISORDER!
I still remember the time I got caught doing this in traffic as two lanes merged. The tow truck drivers next to me were definitely cracking up.
I did not understand at first what this comic was about. And when I finally got it I had to realize that I simply can’t relate because I never drove a car before and the last time I commuted by car was over thirty years ago when my dad had to drive me to school in grade 2 elementary. Been either walking, biking or taking transit for my commute my whole life.
North American culture is really weird. My wife doesn’t bat an eye for having to commute an hour to her work one way. She’s been doing this ever since she moved back to Canada from Europe ten years ago, and she’s fine with it. Meanwhile I went out of my way to always go for jobs that are no further than half an hour away by transit or bike, even if it meant settling for a lower salary.
There are lots of places, like where I live, that just straight up have no public transit; no buses, no trains, no taxis. We have a couple medical taxis to take folks to appointments if they have Medicaid/Medicare, and if I drive 2 hours I can catch a Greyhound bus or a plane, but that’s it. If I want to shop at Walmart it’s a 30 minute drive. My in-laws are about 300 miles away, so any time we visit it’s about a 5 hour drive, depending on whether we eat on the way or not.
That’s terrible. I can’t imagine living like that.
Costco is fairly far from me. It’s a 25 minute bike ride in non-snowy weather. I can bike there, load up a cart and uber it home to my wife, or try to haul it back in the bike trailer if not too bulky.
Walmart is half an hour away by transit, but prefer to just shop local instead. Most grocery stores, butcher, cheese store, bakery all within a 10 minute walking distance.
In laws are the same deal though, 5.5hr train (due to freight priority), 5hr drive or 6hr bus (due to all the stops). In Europe a train would take me to the next country’s capital within two hours for $35. Here you board the train to Toronto like you are at an airport, with everyone constantly checked for their fares, lined up boarding one by one, luggage check & weight limit, assigned seating. 3x price of European rail and all this hassle for a max 120kmph travel speed. Insanity.
Car dependency sounds like the opposite of freedom.
How privileged you are to live with things so close! Us poor car culture slaves will have to continue to drive these devil machines you’ve only experienced briefly as a child. Thank God you can load those mythical beasts and send them home for your wife to unload! Rather then ride in those metal behemoths like us car- brained heathens!
How is this privilege? Any city outside of North America will offer this. Or any place without car centric urban sprawl.
It depends. It means I live in an area where I have a lot of other freedoms. I can go build a shed and nobody is gonna ask me about a permit. I can plant a garden or put up a fence and my neighbors aren’t gonna complain to an HOA about how it looks. And I have the freedom to drive to places much further away and leave whenever I feel like it instead of working around somebody else’s schedule.
There are trade offs for every way of living, but it would be nice to have “something” around here as an option.
> uber it home
Aha! evil car user like the rest of us!
A car that is shared between at least ten other people on the road that day is bad.
That’s… insane logic. It’s still a car running all day. It’s the exact same as ten other people driving their own cars for a half hour each, one after another. Worse, actually, because there’s extra trips to pick up people in between the actual transportation parts.
(Caveat: unless it’s an electric car. I’m going to assume at least 8/10 of the drivers in this scenario are driving standard ICE, rather than hybrid or full electric at this point.)
How is it “insane” logic? A car share has lower environmental impact over individual car ownership. Does it suck compared to alternatives? Sure. But it’s not the same as ten individuals riding their cars, since
- it can be used by more than one passenger at the same time
- an individual car will still need to drive to pick up a passenger (think parents picking up their kids or spouses and back again)
- they take up city subsidized real estate to park their cars (if not, because they are in a suburban sprawl drive way, that’s its own problem already)
Either way, I was bringing it up as an example: Costco can also be accessed by public transit, but it’s not “accessible”. It takes an hour to get there, including ~15 minutes of walking along an area that has a sliver of a sidewalk. Compared to 17 minute by car (traffic not withstanding) or 23 minutes of biking. I do this ride/transit there and Uber back again maybe twice a year, but I wish I didn’t have to.
You could be walking down the street singing along the music in your earphones. It could still be relatable.
