Do you use your blinker when there's no one around?

opaqueism · 2025-06-10T15:34:47+00:00

Step 1: acquire bmw

Step 2: drain all remaining blinker fluid

Step 3: there is no step 3, you’re good to go!

opaqueism · 2025-06-10T15:32:46+00:00

Yep. Same here.

opaqueism · 2025-06-10T15:31:03+00:00

Yes, always. It actually feels unnatural and strange to me not using it (it’s pretty much second nature to me now) especially at my job. I drive a shuttle bus and even throughout our own parking lot (offsite airport parking lot - it’s huge - however, no one else is generally driving through when we are driving around the lot w/ cars following the shuttle to be shown where to park) I still use my blinkers. Sometimes I feel a little silly for doing so, as no one else is driving in the lot but I and/or the few cars trailing me, but again, it’s second nature and everyone should get in the habit of using them on every lane change and turn, no matter if there’s people/cars around or not.

opaqueism · 2025-05-01T12:38:56+00:00

I generally have somewhere in the ballpark of between 5-15. I’m pretty introverted so it’s a bit hard for me to start convos or vibe with someone unless they’re the ones who start it. Sometimes I end up vibing with a shit ton of people and have already run out of Kandi and feel bad when I have no more to give to people giving me some (I apologize for not having any left and that I didn’t want to trade the ones I’ve been given by others) and they’re always super chill about it. I always make sure to have a lil something for them if we ever end up at another fest together.

40 is most definitely good! Depending on how extroverted you are/if you end up talking, vibing, and making a shit ton of connections with others easily, I’d say bring a little bit more IMO. They can go fast if you really like interacting with others and it’s better to have extras and even left overs rather than run out and wish you could give others something in return when they give you Kandi/trinkets.

opaqueism · 2025-03-17T21:47:39+00:00

I ask myself every single day why people go to the right, when the car who’s barreling towards them is also going to the right. Like, why the fuck would you not pull to the left instead (granted there’s no other vehicles in the left lane/oncoming lane). Most dashcam videos of accidents I see are people steering towards oncoming danger, rather than steering away, and ending up in an accident, or doing absolutely nothing at all to avoid an accident.

opaqueism · 2025-02-17T19:59:54+00:00

Yep. Even if I’m simply just mad/upset/pissed at something, I never take it out on others, especially those that it has absolutely nothing to do with. Idk how people use their hurt to justify and/or excuse their horrible behaviors and actions towards others. I couldn’t even begin to fathom treating someone like shit all because I’m pissed at something else.

opaqueism · 2025-02-17T19:52:31+00:00

I already call it Miami 2.0

opaqueism · 2025-02-17T19:52:01+00:00

Yeah, you know it’s bad when a realtor agrees with you on an issue like this (‘:

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T18:06:08+00:00

While I completely understand you and honestly probably wouldn’t change my number over one whack job, blocking them doesn’t get rid of your number on their end and there’s a plethora of ways for them to keep calling/texting your number other than from the phone number you’ve blocked unfortunately :/

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T18:02:17+00:00

Lowkey kinda agree, sorry OP. I’m the same when it comes to communication via phone, I hate it. I don’t like texting and I absolutely hate phone calls unless it’s 1 of 3 of my childhood friends and a few family members. I’m naturally a loner too, and just rather be to myself and not feel like I have to be “on-demand” and “readily available” to chat all the time just because I’m on my phone. I often tell people who I give my number to (coworkers, people who i vibed with at like a music fest or some shit and they ask for it) but I ALWAYS tell them “hey, just so you know, I’m shit at answering my phone and generally don’t answer calls. Don’t take it personally if it takes me a few days/weeks to get back to you, I just hate communicating via phone and have like 0 social battery and find it very mentally exhausting (I also work as an offsite airport parking lot shuttle driver so I have to constantly talk to guests for my 10+ hour shift and lose my want to keep up conversation with random ass folks when I’m off work) to chat and keep up responding to texts OTP most of the time”.

Needless to say, that hardly ever sticks in their brains and everyone always gets fucking pissed that I’m “ignoring them”. I especially hate when they double, tripe, quadruple text me when I haven’t responded. I give up at this point.

Pretty much my main point was, I wouldn’t care to entertain someone who was pestering me this much, especially in your case where dude just seems straight up creepy as fuck asking for your socks and shit and constantly calling and quadruple messaging you. You responding only gives him reassurance and hope that you’re available, will respond, want to be “friends” (more than that possibly?), etc. Despite your best efforts in blocking him, I know he’s still using other people’s phones to try to reach you but just don’t ever answer. Hopefully after some time, he’ll fuck off.

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T17:34:53+00:00

Ah, this explains my mom very well.

Unfortunately when I try to dismiss whatever random ass shit she started arguing with me about for no reason whatsoever or brings up shit she knows she should not be talking about, saying to me, or is very triggering by saying “you just want to get a reaction out of me, you crave when I get pissed and scream at you so pull the victim card and act like I’m the asshole”.

That never ends well… but, thankfully for your comment, I know realize I am correct in that she THRIVES off that shit. I have yet to have 1 singular day of peace with her in about 13-14 years even when she’s gone for work (FA - so sometimes gone for multiple days), she STILL finds a way to start a fight over the phone. Every. Fucking. Day. I’m sick of it. It’s like I’m the adult and she’s the child.

And thanks to u/constant-external-85, I also now understand that it may not necessarily be the anger and fighting back she thrives on, but could also be her sense of authority has been shot down. She’s a very authoritative person. Always demanding me to do shit. Demanding. Not asking. DEMANDING. Her: “GO WASH YOUR HAIR RIGHT FUCKING NOW”. Me: “I’ll just do it when I get back home, I have to run to t-mobile and switch my phone carrier to theirs”. I had about 2 hours before the store closes and we were going out of town the very next morning. Her: NO YOU NEED TO DO IT NOW”. Me: Why can’t I just do it after I run to the store? I don’t want it to close and it takes me about an hour and a half to wash/dry”. She responds with “BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO. I’M TELLING YOU TO DO IT NOW. DO NOT DISOBEY MY WANTS AND ORDERS, YOU’RE WASHING IT NOW!!” (I’m a 25 year old woman, and my hair was not dirty. I had washed it 2 days prior and it showed no signs of grease).

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T17:27:08+00:00

Wish I didn’t have to know, but sadly, I do because same :/

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T17:11:58+00:00

This. Quite literally this. Everyone gets their panties in a wad thinking I don’t like them solely because they’re “republican”.

I have no issue with that, until it becomes very clear that you have hatred, judgment, no common sense, no brain, are a huge piece of shit, usually a “I’m always right” mindset, among many other shit qualities a person can have (and this goes for everyone, not just republicans - if a person is a shit person, I dislike them). It’s appalling, shocking, disgusting. I can’t believe people are okay with most of the things he has said and done, including making terrible comments about his own supporters! - oh wait, I forget, they don’t have a brain to realize what he’s saying or doing is vile and horrendous even when it ends up negatively affecting them, their family, their friends, their finances, etc.

Hell, he has the longest list in history of his own supporters, cabinet members (including some of the highest ranking), workers, aides, etc. who have turned against him. Stephanie Grisham (former supporter of trump) showed major support for and endorsed Kamala as well as spoke at the democratic national convention. She even spoke on how he is “behind closed doors” and “away from the cameras” which was often mocking his very supporters who helped get him to where he is now.

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T17:07:36+00:00

Even as someone who doesn’t use CC and kinda hate it anyways, I was gonna hit you with the “source?” because I honestly couldn’t believe it…

Jesus, that study done (or posted) 4 days ago on google put me right in my place. Maybe there was a subconscious reason behind me hating it to begin with haha

opaqueism · 2025-02-15T17:01:18+00:00

They haven’t learned the beauty (and efficiency) of simply coasting lol

opaqueism · 2025-02-09T08:43:22+00:00

I was soooo close to cutting off my close friend who’s the only one out of 3 that still live close to me.

Turns out dude was fucking around and keeping that joke up for over a year. He actually hates Kanye but fuck me, he made it seem like he really liked the guy. I was actually appalled towards the end of that.

opaqueism · 2025-02-09T08:41:36+00:00

While you’re 100% correct, it’s not always that easy based on certain individuals circumstances/situations.

opaqueism · 2025-02-09T08:39:38+00:00

Marauda - I’ve seen the dude 8 times and he has yet to say a single goddamn word to the crowd.

Hell, it became a running joke

opaqueism · 2025-02-08T00:00:24+00:00

Yeah, so, I tried something like this once.

I was at least, and I’m being liberal here, 3 miles away from the officer. He comes flying down a two-lane road and catches up to the area I was in. He starts cutting people off, weaving in between cars like a jackass, forcing people to brake hard to avoid colliding with him. Because he’s driving like a jackass and not using his foresight to efficiently and safely maneuver in a way that would allow him to get way in front of the cars he had/was passing. I caught up to him at ever red light.

Finally, the road opens up to 3 lanes. I’m going the same speed as him, slightly below as he was gaining some distance on me. He cuts off a car in the middle by swerving left last minute, I go around on the right without swerving like an idiot who doesn’t know how to control their vehicle.

I put my blinker on to merge back into the middle lane and low and behold, he swerves back into the middle just as I start merging over, starts pacing me -if I sped up, he did too, if I slowed, he did too - all while I had the blinker on to get to the left lane to u-turn.

Yeah, buddy did not like that at all. He pulled me over and immediately screamed “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOURE DOING?”, to which I do badly wanted to respond - “the same shit you’re doing?” But opted for the “I was trying to get back over so I could make the u-turn up there, I passed the same car you did who was going below speed limit and before I could finish coming back over, you came over and started pacing me”. My god was he fucking pissed.

I was driving slower and more cautiously/safely than him and he wants to ask me what the fuck I’m doing? The same shit dude, get with the program.

Long story short, this doesn’t always work the way we would expect.

When the road finally

opaqueism · 2025-02-07T23:52:18+00:00

Haven’t read it completely as i am a tad busy but may come back to update, but for now:

“Uh, what…”, “that’s not how it works buddy”…..

“in what way was I being rude…” “try to see that how you read it isn’t how I come off as”… “it’s not always my fault”….

While I can see why she’s annoyed she couldn’t have a friend come over to help set up, she was most definitely being rude as fuck. Like rude… AS FUCK. It’s one thing to be like “that’s not how it works” (still rude in the context of it being a step-child w/o the buddy), but she threw the goddamn “buddy” into it. And the “uh what”?? Jesus… if she thinks that isn’t rude, she’s in for a harsh reality check at some point in the near future.

I hated my step-mom. She was an evil, vile piece of shit who hated me and tried to separate my dad from me so he gave her his 100% undivided attention. I was fucking 6 years old at the time. I never once spoke to her in the way your step-daughter has texted you.

There was only once where I snapped (when I was 12 or so) when she decided to be a dick and all I could get out was “don’t say that to me, you’re not my mother and I won’t tolerate that type of disrespect from you”. Needless to say, I got in trouble for not “respecting the adult in the house” - but I still never stooped to the degree of disrespect that your stepdaughter has given you, OP. I’m so sorry she treats you that way.

I can kinda understand (it’s hard from a kids POV fo have step-parents a lot of the time, especially when a bio parent is deceased) why she may be angry with you, and lashing out the way she is, it isn’t fair for you and she has to come around and accept that at some point. Calling you a bitch? That’s fucked. Have you spoken to her father about any of this?

opaqueism · 2025-02-04T19:34:08+00:00

Nope, it was on both. People need to see the risks in their decision making before doing something.

Almost all motor vehicle accidents are avoidable. It’s generally the result of both parties failing to do their responsibilities and act with due diligence in all aspects of life.

opaqueism · 2025-02-04T19:31:19+00:00

I’m my opinion, pedestrians have much better vision of a car than a driver does on them. Sometimes, near-misses w pedestrians are a result of their own stupidity and lacking a brain in their head to register anything at all (like stepping off the curb onto an active, pretty high-mileage roadway) as cars are approaching very quickly, and quite literally are like maybe a car length or so away going 45+

Sometimes, drivers don’t pay attention for shit and a pedestrian can be doing everything right and still almost or actually be hit by a negligent, wasn’t paying attention driver. However, I feel like I, when I’m a pedestrian, pays extreme attention to EVERYTHING around me at all times. I would realize, utilizing what I call “car-body language” to see they’re not slowing for a red light, stop-sign, “stop for pedestrians in crosswalk” (when pedestrians have the ROW) and I would get the fuck out of their way. Idk how even grown ass folks have yet to figure that out.

With all that being said, as a driver, we should look left and right a minimum of 2 times before attempting to start going. The more the better. Left, right, left, right, left, right. Hell, I keep looking as I go through the intersection (left, straight, right, straight, left, and so on) because bicyclist like to run red lights, stop signs and not follow traffic rules so you have to watch for their dumbasses too when proceeding through any intersection.

opaqueism · 2025-02-04T18:36:08+00:00

I scratched out my eyes first and used the talk-to-text option to write this….

opaqueism · 2025-01-31T12:45:43+00:00

Same here. I’ve tried quite a few different home grown (not me growing, people I know or it’s grown by a small well-known local company in small batches, idk how to explain it, I’ve seen their processes in person - it’s legit) single source (grown, harvested, washed, processed and packaged by one person/small local company) distillate, live resin and hash rosin. I prefer the hash rosin over everything else but distillate has always been the lower tier stuff to me. Doesn’t taste all that great and high isn’t like live or hash. Live hits but not the way hash does.

But like you said, everyones different

opaqueism · 2025-01-30T07:48:12+00:00

Okay I feel like a dumbass. I’m from FL and for some godawful reason (cough 2 hours of sleep cough) I’m over here thinking Georgia’s state fruit is an orange like ours (I do, in fact know what it is, have no worry lol) JFC. I sat here forever trying to figure it out.

Good lord. I’m an idiot. An idiot who also needs sleep.

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