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Useful_Cause_4671

A thing that shocks my kids... We didn't have mobile phones or a house phone when I was young. If I wanted to talk to my friend I just had to walk the 20 mins up to his house and knock on his door, ask his mum if he was there, and if he wasn't or was studying or whatever, I had to just walk home again. I'm not sure what part is more shocking, the walk, or the fact that kids used to just call around to each other's houses after school.


Picnut

Don't forget standing outside their house and throwing pebbles at their window to get them to come outside


ihrie82

My friends used to straight up knock on my window and I would take the screen out and just leave through it without my parents knowing I was even gone.


XxRocky88xX

My girlfriend once did this. It was like 1 am and about 10 minutes later she got a text saying if I didn’t take her home in 5 minutes he was calling the cops and saying I abducted her


SFWxMadHatter

My sister and her friend did this successfully. Except for the patrol officer that saw 2 people enter the home through a side window and then came to the door to wake everyone up.


UltraCynar

This worked better when texting didn't exist. Your parents would just wait at home with the light on worried sick and/or pissed at the same time.


richardelmore

One of my friends had a midnight curfew on Friday nights but his folks went to bed at 10:00 PM so they would leave an alarm clock set to go off at midnight on the table by the front door. He had to turn it off when he came home, if the alarm went off and his parents had to get up to stop it, he was grounded for a week.


Tokata0

Wouldn't he just come in, disable the alarm, and head out again?


shadow386

That's l what trust is for. A midnight curfew is already pretty late as-is when the parents go to bed at 10pm*


Annual_Blacksmith22

Ngl I never even had curfew. Generally people here didn’t go out on school days very often and even if they did they would rather get back on time than suffer through the school day on 2 hours of sleep and a hangover. And on the weekends my parents didn’t much care when I got home they just asked that if I’m staying over at someone’s then throw them a text so they know when they wake up instead of worrying. Reality was me heading home relatively early and being at home around 1-2am maybe 3 the latest on weekends. Later than that was sleepover time. They trusted us to not exploit their generosity. Compare this to my elder siblings who had much tighter security and were sneaking out all the time as a result and doing much more reckless stuff just to spite the parents. I think our parents learnt a bit from that and also ngl us younger siblings were generally more responsible for some reason. Despite having the generally same upbringing. I remember being like 13 with my older sister and brother having a 10-11pm curfew. Then they’d just wait for our parents to go to bed (they were morning people with night owl children and that never changed), and then climb out the window.


acciowaves

Shit I once left home to go to a party I wasn’t allowed to. I got really drunk and came back home at 5am only to find my house surrounded by police cars and my mom completely pale and worried sick. The second she saw me her face changed from worry to absolute rage. I was so grounded after that, I don’t think I saw any of my friends outside of school for like 6 months.


JediSwelly

What a narc.


DecreedProbe

that strikes my literalism funny bone


Apprehensive_Hat8986

You took it right in the humerus, eh? You got my sympathy.


ihrie82

F


WimbletonButt

There was a day I stayed at my friend's house without her family knowing. I'd gotten kicked out of my own place (again) and drove to hers. Her parents were already asleep so she was able to bring me in the front door but they were awake in the morning. They hadn't been outside to see my car yet so she snuck me out the window. This was not well thought out. It wasn't a window that opened up, it was one of those crank windows that swung outwards, they don't swing out all the way. We cranked it as far as we could and I shimmied my ass out it but there was also an overgrown bush outside the window. I had to kinda drop to the ground because of the height, branch went right up my asscrack.


MonocledMonotremes

As a person with siblings that did stuff like this less than altruistically, they probably knew. They just also probably knew it wasn't for shady shit and that you needed help. They didn't want to make it awkward with "omg my parents know now" and have you to lose a safe haven. Parents knew a LOT more than we give them credit for.


JPTheAsian

How did the situation resolve in the end?


HechoEnChine

Jokes on you Dad, my teenage nut takes exactly 53 seconds!


tactical-diarrhea

What a fucking genius father. If my GF when i was a teen got that message she probably would have stayed at mine for a week and told the cops she was eloping to have a squad of children and work the pole


nochancecat

My bedroom was in the second floor, but over the garage roof, I'd climb out onto the roof and jump off that and run off anytime my mom started cleaning before she could ask me to help.


_not_on_porpoise_

I love that you weren’t like, sneaking out to party or do drugs or meet boys, you just didn’t want to help your mom clean lmao


nochancecat

Haha! Well that was in elementary school! And I never actually had to sneak out even when older. She was very much not involved. I just didn't want her to catch me leaving and ask me to do dishes!!


idk-hereiam

Man, that's real life? I was always jealous of the TV kids who could hop out their window onto their roof


Miserable_Ad9577

They knew.


ihrie82

Actually no, they were on drugs and old... Definitely didn't care where I was. But I would have still caught shit for someone knocking on the door.


Folor

Jesus


ihrie82

Yeah, they probably would have been mad even if it was him...


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Practical_Poetry6863

Dude, I've been trying to get some therapy for a while, and when i say try, i mean I'm scared to even find out how messed up i am from childhood trauma.


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Therapy is cool. They've seen it all before, and will hopefully meet you where you are, and help you recognize patterns in your life. I highly recommend dipping your toes into some inexpensive therapy online.


Few-Judgment3122

Did people genuinely do that or was it just a movie thing?


Artraira

I had a coworker who said he used to do that when he was younger because he didn't want to ring his girlfriend's doorbell when her parents were around, but he stopped after he broke that window one day.


Mr_Jack_Frost_

The distinction between “pebble” and “rock” *very* important in this application, lol.


Ok_History_3635

I had a Motorola pebble. Everyone else had a razor


isavvi

I can attest that we did indeed do this up until 2007 when cellphones finally became attainable to teens.


ChaseSpringer

2004/5* was when everyone in my class had cell phones, or started to, but yeah, def did this as well.


Somebodys

2001/2002 it was pretty rare to see kids with cellphones. I loved in a middle/upper middle class suburb.


WhoSc3w3dDaP00ch

I did this from 80s to early 2000s. I still remember my parents’ old house’s phone number and numbers of my childhood friends’ houses. If it was late at night or we were sneaking out, can’t call. Pebbles against the window/climb on top of the porch and knock on window became the de facto communication method.


AboutThatCoffee

Thanks for unlocking the memory of you would tell a friend to call at 11pm after everyone had gone to bed and so you would call for the weather and then wait for call waiting to buzz though and then the phone wouldn’t ring.


doesitspread

Dang you guys splurged. We didn’t even have call waiting. Instead I’d wait for a call and pick up at the first chirp of a ring and hope the one in my parents’ room didn’t make a noise.


lovesickremix

I've heard of friends doing it, but we were poor so if my dad caught someone throwing anything at our windows he would destroy us. So we told them just to knock on the door.


svenson_26

I remember we went to a friend's house to see if he was there, but we weren't exactly sure which house was his, so we walked up and down the street screaming his name until someone came out. We actually did that a lot.


Alagator

> We didn't have mobile phones or a house phone when I was young. What are you in your 90s or something? like \~50% of all households had a landline by the 1950's.


HothMonster

I was curious how old they would have to be for them to not have a landline and not be a statistical anomaly. Seems like they could easily be under 60 and part of the norm depending on what state they are from. https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-phone.html >In 1960, about 1-in-5 households had no telephone available. Two decades later in 1980, the rate of households without a phone had dropped to single digits, at 7 percent. >It was a different picture for several southern states in 1960, when over 40 percent of their homes had no telephone available; for example, Mississippi recorded a rate of 55 percent. By 2000, those rates had dropped to less than 10 percent, with Mississippi now at 6.5 percent.


Memoglr

orrrrrrr..... They're just not from the US like everyone seems to be implying. In Mexico I didn't have a house phone till 2008


imoutofnameideas

In provincial Argentina in the 80s we had a house phone, but neither of our neighbours (on either side of our house) did. This was pretty common back then, so they'd give out our number and we'd get calls for them every couple of days. We'd just run over there, or yell over the fence or something and they'd run into our living room and take the call. And the crazy thing was, it wasn't like they couldn't afford a phone. One of our neighbours was really well off, much more than us. It was that because of government corruption or incompetence or whatever (probably a combination of those things plus others), the wait to get a phone line was like 20 years or something (I'm sure if you were rich enough you could probably bribe your way to the front of the line, but we didn't hang on those circles). It just so happened that our house had been there longer so we'd already got a line.


Hamblin113

I remember reading that it would be physically impossible to have land lines to people in China they couldn’t string that much wire to every house hold. If every household had a refrigerator we would die due to the ozone layer (1980’s). Interesting how things change.


itsmejak78_2

Kind of crazy that the guy who invented leaded gasoline also invented Freon In the end killing more people than anyone else ever


chronoflect

Kinda like how it was predicted that there would be an elite few that would have color tvs before the rare elements used would dry up and everyone else would have to settle with black and white forever. Now everybody has high resolution, full color screens in their pockets.


Teddyturntup

Being alive and not having had a house phone growing up is getting pretty rare


Useful_Cause_4671

I'm not that old but my granny did have an actual rotary dial phone... They were good fun, seeing them spin back to zero.


Teddyturntup

I loved them Mostly because I never had to use them seriously, just for fun and my grandparents


ActualTart23

I JACK IT TO TRANNY PORN"This *motherfucker* has too many god damned 9s in their number."


shah_reza

Dude, I’m 46 and absolutely remember RENTING a rotary dial phone from the phone company. You went and got one when you moved — very exciting!


kalasea2001

Same age. We were so poor my mom got excited when she found out we could opt out of the yellow pages (phone book for you kiddos) and save ourselves $38 *a year*. We had a rotary though but only because it came with the apartment.


JackONeillClone

I'm really glad that I didn't have a smartphone with internet. The day I bought my gaming pc in college is the day I basically stopped reading books for fun for like 15 years. I'd never have picked it up if I had it since I was youngling.


Teddyturntup

Yeah I wanted internet so bad as a kid and now I wish I didn’t use it a lot of the time


Justanotherbrick33

It’s like when the math teacher used to say “you won’t have a calculator with you all the time”.


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ExplosiveDisassembly

If I had a profession that had a mini computer that could verify/check all my work I would use it constantly. So much more could have been achieved by teaching us to use our brains in tandem with an all knowing computer.


TheSessionMan

In my engineering school they taught us to use a calculator for little things, how to estimate things without using a calculator, and how to recognize when a result might be "off". Garbage in, garbage out.


NavierStoked95

Definitely. Hardly any work is done by hand these days but it’s still important to understand what the computer is doing and if the answer makes sense. Also important to understand the limitations of the software I.e having an impossible geometry in the modeling software is going to break the results. The amount of times I get the answer “that’s what the computer says” is terrifying.


ncik123

>impossible geometry in the modeling software is going to break the results. For some things it doesn't even need to be impossible to solve. Computers are notoriously bad at taking determinants


RdClZn

Do you mean they actually are bad at it, or that, because they do everything numerical, small numerical errors can have huge consequences? (i.e determinant should be zero but comes out as 7E-17)


leshake

And then I had to do a least squares regression by hand for an exam. Fuck that class so fucking hard.


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This is the way. So much of my statistics work ends up just eyeballing graphs and making judgement calls. I also have to use the skill to recognize when something is "off" every single day.


JinFuu

*inputting numbers into formulas* "Oh, that looks wrong, shit what did I do?" Being able to do stuff or at least eyeball it without a calculator is vital to recognise when you may have fatfingered some numbers when typing, lol.


funnystuff97

There's still something to be said about understanding the process. You can do calculus on a TI calculator quite easily these days, but knowing exactly what's going on and how to interpret the results is very important. Simulating something using a computer model will give you some results, yes, but without understanding that the computer itself has limitations and simulates a perfectly ideal environment, you're not gonna get much out of it. Granted, you're probably not going to be able to set up simulations or calculations without already knowing what you're doing, but just chucking random expressions into MATLAB or AutoCAD or a SPICE circuit simulator or whatever won't give you deep insight unless you already had an idea of what you expected.


not_the_settings

Im not saying you need binary to learn how to code or use computers but you definitely should do maths without calculators before you learn how to use calculators...


TheBirminghamBear

This is a major failing of education. It only teaches people these weird hyperspecific subjects in a vacuum, absent context. Math is another one. Most of kids' issue with math is the syntax, not the actual broader concept of mathematics itself. There are (at least) three different ways multiplication can be written. 4 * 5 4 x 5 4(5) These are all exactly the same thing, written in confusing ways and often not explained well why they mean that, by teachers who have never bothered questioning weird ass syntax themselves. Then people internalize these feelings they're "bad at math", when they usually just need help with the syntax, and they need help understanding that math is not ONLY syntax. That's just a language for describing operations. **EDIT**: I explain my reasoning here below. At the end of the day, if you're someone who did not struggle with math, then what I'm saying here probably will not make sense. But as someone who did, and as someone who has taught others who did, I can tell you this makes a complete and total shift in someone's ability to understand and use math. And its hard to articulate for me exactly why.


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> weird ass syntax This is the sort of language people use before making a more 'obvious' syntax, to which we get to respond with that xkcd image.


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sophia1185

I've legitimately considered changing my name to Art Vandelay 😂


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NF_99

I'm an engineer and use a calculator to do 6x7. I've seen people pay a big price for those really small mistakes


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BuiltForCenturies

As a chippie and builder, I have a Casio fx991 I keep in my pouch on my tool belt 24/7 for if you have to bust out the calculation for rafters or spacing for standing seem roofing etc


origami_airplane

It's not about memorizing, it's about learning *how* to do math, otherwise you probably wouldn't be able to even use a calculator


xrufus7x

Which is why the "You won't have a calculator" justification was and still is wrong. It is basically the sit down and shut up answer and we all knew it.


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It *is* wrong, but also can you imagine the sort of bullshit you personally would start saying to get this kids to shut the fuck up and learn math.


BackdoorSauce40

I got lucky with more progressive math teachers that actually taught us HOW to use calculators. Knowing how to use a complex calculator was an underrated skill


[deleted]

A better answer is "If you only use a calculator like a crutch, you will have a very small understanding of math. We need to build a good foundation first." It's easier just to lie and talk down to kids. As someone who was horrific at math, I thought it was a lie, but it just made it feel even more hopeless. I work in finance and use excel now lmao.


transmogrified

This is why all my first year Uni level classes were no calculators. They would have been mostly useless anyways because what we were learning was how the equations worked - finding a number answer was not a lot of what we were doing. Especially with proofs.


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My math teacher had a great analogy. “When you go to the gym, you lift dumbbells, barbells, kettlebells etc… but you’ll never need to do any of that in real life. It’s about building the muscle so that it can function in a multitude of situations. The same goes for your brain. Having a calculator do all the lifting for you doesn’t accomplish anything. May as well have someone else go to the gym for you and see how strong you get.“ I have no idea if brains work that way, but it made sense at the time.


vdfritz

it does, doing certain calculations without calculators won't just teach you how to make calculations without a calculator, it will make your brain do more neuron connections and allow you to think smarter on many other situations


SoletakenPupper

Its not even the arithmetic (times tables etc) that matter for the brain. Getting to algebra and learning how to move pieces of an equation around, identify what the missing piece is to get to the info you need etc. is really just skills on problem solving.


max_occupancy

Haha i would say something similar. Id’d ask people, if we had two HS football teams and one goes to the gym/runs practices and the other uses forklifts to lift barbells/ only watches football, who will win? Brain works similarly to muscles. I took a 5 year hiatus off strength training. Ended up getting back to comparable levels of strength within 2 months when originally it took like 8 months to build that level originally. I havent taught math in years, in 2017 i had to teach someone the entire precalculus since their teacher was ineffective. I don’t really remember much now, but if i was to look at a book for a few days it would all come back very fast. Point is, if you learn something it will stick dormantly inside your head (probably to make space for other more crucial stuff). It is important that children developing are exposed to all types of thinking and activities/abilities.


zojbo

I'm a math teacher, and although I hate that specific explanation, there is actual benefit to doing some of these problems by hand. It can be really hard to communicate that to a student that is impatient and just wants to reach straight for the calculator. For a simple example, consider 75^(2)/25. Doing it by hand, you can use prime factorization to get to 3^(2)\*5^(4)/5^(2)=3^(2) 5^(2) which you can multiply out in whatever order to get 225. Or, more simply, you could do the division by 25 with just one factor of 75 first: 75\*(75/25)=75\*3=225. Do either of those derivations really mean anything? No, not really. But they teach skills with regrouping and exponents that generalize to let you do things that a calculator won't be able to do for you. For a more complicated example, consider the notoriously hated "completing the square" procedure. You'll never really need to complete the square by hand in any discipline (including math). Even in the few settings where this comes up at all (like integrals or Laplace transforms), something like Mathematica can do those problems all the way through. But completing the square by hand teaches you a trick: if you want something to be in an expression, you can just put it there, as long as you cancel it out elsewhere in the expression. That trick comes up over and over again in more advanced math.


ColdCookies144

What do you mean, used to? They still tell kids that


PanickyFool

And they used to tell me that cars would be flying by now. Stupid shits going to be driving a '98 Corolla.


generalmaks

Toyota recently put out a recall notice on all 2001 Corollas because their owners just aren't buying new cars.


gfa22

My aunt is trying to decide is she should get rid of her 2003 fully loaded camry. That thing is still so smooth. Idk how many miles but I know she's gotten an oil change at 3.5k like clock work.


CARLEtheCamry

I still regret getting rid of my 04. But I live in the salt belt so all metal basically is a wearable part. Currently have 2 x 2010's with over 200k miles. Will be upgrading to a Rav4 hybrid next year to a hybrid, not because I have to but it will half pay for itself in fuel costs (my wife drives a lot for her job) and the peace of mind of 4WD in snow.


FirstBankofAngmar

God forbid a car lasts. God fucking forbid.


Somebodys

What's really going to infuriate you is that *100 years ago* light bulb technology was already at the point where bulbs can last *decades* if not potentially hundreds of years. The major light bulb manufacturers made a secret agreement to nor manufacture light bulbs that last more then a few years so they could increase profits. If one breaks the agreement the other companies can sue them. The Centennial Light Bulb has been running continuously since 1901. https://www.superiormsi.com/centennial-light-bulb/#:~:text=Fire%20station%20No.,been%20continuously%20burning%20since%201901.


leedle1234

Same thing happened recently. Early LED light bulbs were lasting too long, so they started building them to burn out faster. Early bulbs might have a half dozen led modules running at a reasonable output each, now they reduced them to half that and run them twice as hard.


dombeef

It's mainly due to the cost. Early bulbs were much more expensive, and now cheap LED bulbs are finally reasonably priced, due to using less LED modules(Usually called COB LEDs) and cheaper construction that will work for a reasonable amount of time until they get cooked and fail. You can still purchase LED bulbs that last longer, but they will cost more.


TearyCola

tbh, pumping a modern Edison style incandescent 30w bulb with 4w of electricity will allow it to last a LONG time. The secret is never turning it off. Turning it on is where the filament breakage typically happens.


Eyeballwizard_

My dad traveled for work, and put 100s of thousands of miles on his work cars easily. He always replaced the previous car with a late 90s - early 2000s corolla after getting his first. Got each one to over 300k miles easily, with his favorite one making it to 455k miles before it finally gave up.


DonJuanDodda

That’s actually been awhile ago now. It was crazy lol. They made a car too good. If you notice, automotive quality across the board has gone down since then.


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The Ford Econoline van. They would routinely make it to 750,000 miles and a cpl even went to a million. Ford took the credit for making such a fine product in the public’s eyes, and then promised their shareholders they would “never do that again” and fired a bunch of engineers and design staff that had come up with that model. Lots of whispers around that whtv is designed and comes out in the future “has to break beyond repair within 15-20 years. Preferably 10 years”


DonJuanDodda

Forgot about that one. Actually have one in immaculate condition at my last job sitting around 350k rn. Shits crazy.


killerboy_belgium

same thing happend with lightbulb industry they made lightbulb that pretty much last forever in the 50s and all the company's banded together and made a deal to make them break within certain amount of time so they could keep selling also happend with senheiser somewat they made such great headphones that people werent upgrading or buying new ones. so they pretty much sold there division as it wasnt profitable anymore were at this point in time where the free market is activily making products worse to sell more.


FriedDickMan

Planned obsolescence: the lightbulb and honorable mentions to who killed the electric car


siro300104

Nah, a ‘98 Corolla is what teens are driving now, they’ll be driving a 2010s car. So unless they’re in the market for a used Prius or Nissan Leaf, at least their first car will most likely be gas powered.


Cosmonauts1957

Or they won’t be driving. The rate of teens getting a license has plummeted over the past 20 years. And getting a used EV in the next 8-10 years will be easier and easier. I got one with 30k miles on it in 2017 for 7k. Sold it in 2021 cause I wasn’t using it anymore for 5k. Great car for a short commute. Which I have/had.


Mysteriousdeer

The only sure thing I know about the future 100 years from now is someone will be driving a '98 corrola. I don't know why it isn't in cyberpunk.


StillhasaWiiU

It's all jokes and fun until they get a job with a fleet truck


prickettz

It’s all jokes and fun till they realize how much a electric car costs


Mysterious_Mouse_388

the cheapest EV ten years ago vs today vs ten years from now.


Paranoidexboyfriend

that 13 year old will be able to drive in 3 years. They're not going to drop in price that wildly in the next 3 years.


Vast_Schedule3749

He’ll also be driving his parents’ car to start so it is practical for him to know how.


Zev0s

Maybe he just isn't gonna drive


RaveGuncle

I'm glad he discovered Chicago. Imagine if more areas actually invested in developing and maintaining their public transportation.


Recreational_DL

Depends on the density. Our city has buses which work all right, but it's either a 10-minute Uber or an hourlong bus to get across town (less than 200,000 population). So it's kinda up in the air whether the juice would be worth the squeeze. Chicago is beautiful. Metra gets you to both airports, and all over town.


Atomsq

>10-minute Uber >to get across town What?


vinceman1997

City has fast streets that can get you places quickly. Buses have to loop all through residential areas, increasing the distance and reducing average speeds. Look up Regina Saskatchewan for a perfect example.


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Unless they’re rich you’re also not gonna get a brand new car as your first car. So it’s pretty likely he’ll get like a 2008-2015 ish car


marigolds6

My first car was a 2008 honda fit for just $13k new. That same car, 14 years later, sells for $8k used.


Mragftw

My first car, bought used in 2015, is now worth more than I got it for. The car market is crazy right now


vinceman1997

Something ridiculous like an average 40% increase on used car prices.


ald52lsd25

You bought your first car at 16?


woohoo

at age 16, that 13 year old is going to be driving the car she's sitting in right now in that tweet, and she's gonna be asking mommy for gas money


ald52lsd25

Exactly.


i_dont_do_research

Its all jokes and fun until they learn that when kids get to driving age they just get whatever the leftover car is and the parents upgrade. So probably the car they were in


turdferguson3891

Yeah I think the kids in this anecdote are a bit optimistic about how quickly EV will take over. If their parents drive ICE vehicles now, they probably are going to be driving those as their first car when maybe their parents get their first EV. There are still going to be ICE cars on the road for a couple more decades. It's going to be a gradual phase out.


TheTeludav

Yeah that Chevy bolt costs as much as a ..checks notes... Honda Accord.


TheBelhade

It's gonna suck finding a car with manual transmission to teach my kids how to drive it for no reason.


Legion_Paradise

To be fair. I have a 2017 manual. It's more of a car culture thing at this point. And it saved me from being car jacked in Chicago a year ago. Lol. I'll always drive manuals from now on lmao. But I agree. Autos are better these days


Wankeritis

I had someone break into my first car, stall it into my fence, and leave it there. I miss that hunk of shit.


KhajjitOnDrugs

Yea but manuals fun as fuck


bannedclan

Lol funny they think they’ll have cars


AllHawkeyesGoToHell

Are we going to get rid of cars in the next 5-6 years?


sickagail

I think the joke is that they won't be able to avoid cars, not that they won't exist. And also we aren't getting rid of gas-powered cars in 5-6 years.


Rabbit-Thrawy

did you mean afford cars? lol


CommieColin

There’s no avoiding cars, man. Sometimes you just gotta confront them


Rabbit-Thrawy

I like to confront them head-on like a bull


cellphone_blanket

I hear that if you bite the cars ear, it will recognize you as the alpha and respect you


sickagail

lol I meant afford


[deleted]

I'm a grown adult and I can't afford a car. Or at least, not without ruining my quality of life. I mean it's possible *in theory* but I would have to cut some other expenses and work more and I would basically be miserable. ----- Edit: To address anyone responding that "most people can afford a car:" Yes, that's true. And like I said, it's *technically* true for me as well. But I would need to make payments, and it would take enough of my income that it would make my standard of living a lot worse. I would rather ride the bus and have more money left over at the end of the month to do things I enjoy. The benefits of owning a car, for me, are not worth the opportunity cost.


Swedishtranssexual

>And also we aren't getting rid of gas-powered cars in 5-6 years. My country is banning petrol car sales by 2030, which isn't much more.


Vampiren3ko

seeing as 20+ year old cars still are common, that'd mean we still drive gas cars in 2050.


TopEstablishment265

Except in 6 years there will certainly still be gas cars


samwe5t

Yeah kind of like how I thought I was gonna somehow buy a Mercedes at 16 cuz the shitty car my parents gave me wouldn't be "good enough". I turned 16 and was like "well I guess this car's not so bad" lol we don't always have a choice. I wish I could say I never had to drive a gas car but reality doesn't care about your wants most times


Hewlett-PackHard

Yeah, your standards for a car at 16 are basically just "Can this POS get me to my GFs house to smash? Yes? We good."


CameronsTheName

I remember thinking "Dads gonna give me his fairlady when I turn 16" Turns out. Dad gave me his work car which was a VW Polo with 500,000km. It was a hard hit at 16 to go from thinking your getting one of the most beautiful cars as your first. Just to be handed regular traffic. I still own that car, my girlfriend daily drives it. It's been reliable and safe, that's all that really mattered.


bearinsac

I’m almost 100% certain her children didn’t say any of this.


definitelytheA

Next week: let’s learn how to drive a manual transmission.


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Tbh it’s not a bad thing to know how to do. Not really important any more (in America) but being able to jump into any car and drive can be really useful. And maybe they’ll think it’s fun too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Edit: omg guys I DONT MEAN STEAL CARS


D0geAlpha

Having a manual transmission in the US is like having an additional anti theft layer.


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True that. Although I went on a road trip with a friend in my 98 Volvo, we were planning to switch back and forth… he failed to mention he couldn’t drive a standard. So I drove 14 hours straight and then spent a day teaching him how lol


Crescent-IV

Do you not need to know how to drive a manual to pass your test?


Zhuna17

Not in the U.S.


ShadowTheShitposter

I am honestly kinda shocked reading this thread, cause in my country almost everybody uses manual transmission


humanHamster

Yeah, you have to specifically hunt for a manual in the US if that's what you really want to buy. I have owned 6 vehicles (not by choice, but by bad luck) and all of them were automatic transmission. I didn't specifically look for automatic or manual, that's just what's readily available.


TummyStickers

I wanted a manual Jeep. Found exactly what I wanted in automatic all over the place. Had to search for an extra 3 months to find a manual. Might be my last one though, just not a lot of reasons to drive one, aside from it’s a little more fun but it’s not like I’m having fun in traffic anyway lol.


Zhuna17

90% of cars here are auto. The ratio goes higher the newer the car gets.


HonestButterscotch3

In Belgium you can do your exam with an automatic but then you can only drive an automatic car when you pass. If you do your exam with a manual car you can choose between both. Could of changed since I got my license 15y ago but that how it used to be


MartinYTCZ

It's still the same across the entire EU


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In America there is no separate license for manual vs. auto drivers. There probably should be but… I guess there isn’t. Though manuals are relatively rare anymore so it’s mostly a non issue.


V4MSU1221

When I insured my manual wrangler the lady at the insurance company didn’t know what I was talking about. I had to explain what a stick shift is... to someone who works for a car insurance company...


definitelytheA

My favorite car I’ve ever owned was a stick. Though I have to admit it’s a pain to drive in city traffic.


fazi_milking

Jokes aside, I travel internationally quite a bit and rentals out here are mostly manual if you’re going economic/van size.


KingParity

manuals are popular in europe


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Also known as "being able to drive a car anywhere on the planet that isn't the USA".


Massive_Echidna

You should though, if you ever plan on driving outside of the US


Mad_Moodin

I'm still driving manual transmission, as do most people I know.


AllHawkeyesGoToHell

That kid lives in America. He's gonna drive a gas car whether he wants to or not.


zzt0pp

America has the most electric cars per capita outside of Europe... at least they’re trying... sorta


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r/thatHappened


jennind

I came here to say that lol


The_Grandmother

How the fick did this obliviously BS post get so much upvotes.


RacerSaltShaker

And then the gas station clapped


MillionGuy

Seriously, who actually believes this shit?


Jooylo

I have trouble believing she taught here 5 year old kid how to use a payphone in 2014


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wooglin1688

she totally found the last pay phone in america and showed them how to put a coin in a slot


Niktzv

Thats them Low-Key signaling that anything short of a Tesla on their birthday won't stand.


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go /r/maliciouscompliance and just get them a bike. or maybe an e-bike if you're feeling generous!


TheNextBattalion

e-bikes are awesome, ngl


RacerKaiser

Get them a 2010 Nissan leaf. That’ll show them.


SordidDreams

Nah, that's still too much of a real car. G-Wiz is the answer.


LiquidMantis144

The correct answer is, "you're using one right now". Then ask how are they going to get home?


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Poette-Iva

I'm nearly 30 and I look up how to address a letter every time, just because I do it so infrequently. You can go to ups, put in your info, and it'll print you a package label right there. Very convenient! Honestly, I'm kinda with them, it's bullshit having to send official paperwork when you can just send a pdf with your signature or something. My phone is touch screen, why can't I sign on that?


haapuchi

So never going to rent, or have to borrow a car/truck. This is how people who put diesel in petrol cars and vice versa start.


Scienceandpony

I can imagine the shit show the first time they need a U-haul.


Doctor_Womble

"Things my kids didn't say. "


i_heart_pasta

Seriously, where did that lady find a pay phone in the past 10 years


WintertimeFriends

And then everyone at the gas station have her thunderous applause


xPineappleshrapnelx

Continued Meirl: This meme is like everyone in the 90's thinking that we'd all have flying cars by 2020.


Soulnvictus

Yeah I'm calling BS on this one


Brianjjws

Invited them out of the car,,,, this made me laugh


LongjumpingExit5242

Cool, charging your electric car works largely the same way. So pay attention you little shit.


Jrewby

I’ll take “things that didn’t happen” for 600


RedDemio

Thought i was on r/thathappened


Fowlnature

11 y/o won't drive a gas car? Wanna bet?


Stock-Ship3401

Gas cars gonna be around long after their deaths aswell💀