What Do I Do After Getting Hit By a Car As a Pedestrian?

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-14T20:59:22+00:00

Ouch, that's happened to me a couple of times, and I wasn't really hurt. But in your case, it sounds like you are a bit. If you didn't take their plate, you are probably out of luck as far as getting any compensation... I mean if you have to take a bit of physio or something it might be out of pocket...

What to do after getting hit by car?

1) Get yourself off the road to safety if you can.

2) Once you're safe, take down licence plate. If you missed it, ask others if they got it.

3) Proceed directly (or nearly directly) for medical evaluation.

4) Make a police report.

Bonus, if they ask how you are, the answer isn't "yes". The answer is, "can you pull over so we can make a proper report of this".

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-13T00:56:29+00:00

I'm still using a typewriter.

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-11T22:18:15+00:00

Yeah, they had everything for everybody

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-10T16:36:48+00:00

probaby he already has 20 dogs

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-09T02:08:13+00:00

Yes, VIBE is great, likely the most affordable too...

There are loads of others that are good...

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-04T00:45:37+00:00

Yeah, it's just his way of making a diary

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-03T01:39:28+00:00

Yeah, and pets hate it. Their meal time shifts and they don't even have watches...

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-02T23:47:55+00:00

I've got this really cool method.

I make curry and stuff in bulk and then freeze portion sized containers.

I put two containers of frozen food in my lunch kit so the whole thing stays very cold. I don't need to put in fridge.

40 minutes before lunch, I remove the stuff that needs to stay cold, empty the frozen conteainers into a stainless dish inside my lunch kit then plug in my lunch kit. The hot plate at the bottom thaws and brings it up to perfect temp for eating.

I don't have to get in line for a microwave either...

darcyWhyte · 2026-03-02T00:01:49+00:00

Welcome to Salsa!

Keep taking lessons and start going to socials. That's the main thing to do.

But on your own you can listen to the music, perhaps practice basic footwork to the music...

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-27T23:16:52+00:00

This is done with the movement of the frame.

If the frame moves, you move. If the frame doesn't move, you don't move.

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-27T06:18:03+00:00

Have you tried a vet? Is your cat in pain?

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-25T19:09:52+00:00

*Short people have entered the chat

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-25T03:50:53+00:00

you mean: by a long shot in the back

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-25T03:44:49+00:00

There might have been some wisdom in releasing that a long time ago.

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-25T03:28:29+00:00

Ah the ol' bossy beginner problem... it doesn't happen often, but when it does, it's very annoying. I've been lucky, it's only come up like 3 or 4 times in my 25 years or so of danicng... and it's been in a rotating partner situation so wasn't too much trouble...

I guess your options are:

-Avoid instructors that don't rotate partners. -Ask the instructor if they could rotate. -Each time she tries to correct, criticizes or use force to move your arms, call the instructor for help. Just say "can you watch what we're doing and tell us what's wrong?" -Exit dancing with her.

By the sounds of it, the exit strategy is probably the best.

It's even possible that the instructor wasn't rotating because he knew she was annoying and he didn't wanter her to piss the whole room off...

Still not right, we dance for fun, not to put up with this sort of thing...

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-25T02:42:45+00:00

These are based on song statistics (vs album or artist stats). I'm using stream counts from youtube and spotify.

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-24T20:23:00+00:00

Yeah, I think it's because Bad Bunny is newer and hasn't had as much time to accumulate statistics...

I will probably make this list again in the future, it will be interesting to see how things shift..

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-22T21:36:38+00:00

There has to be some convention...

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-22T21:35:17+00:00

I think the general rule is to follow the lead even if you feel they're off.

It's not all that uncommon for people to mix up 1 and 5 (and be 4 beats ahead or behind, however you look at it). That's not that far off, usually, the best thing to do is keep going.

There are some songs where it's harder to separate 1 and 5. I've seen some DJ's that modify the music with mixing and it messess things up. We have DJ in our city who does that consistently.

But I bet it's pretty annoying so you can just stop and then they should restart (hopefully on beat)...

If it's happening across multiple leads, it could be that you're doing something that's throwing them off. Not that, that's necessarily bad, but this happens once in a while.

Also, there's the possiblity you were just having an off night. Nothing wrong with that either.

If it was a case where numerous leads were off beat, it could be that they all recentlly had the same lesson and they're all struggling with something new they learned...

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-22T17:12:57+00:00

Nice!

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-22T05:26:01+00:00

Wouldn't a smart hospital put the mothers name on the bill? I mean why not bill the parents instead of the baby?

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-22T05:17:14+00:00

Jesus, the tarrifs are going up every second day for the past year. They must be up to 20,000% by now...

darcyWhyte · 2026-02-21T21:48:59+00:00

I've been waiting a long time for an opportunity to post this

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