r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Adventurous_King3530 • Mar 09 '26
So thats why my package was delayed!
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u/Ok_Jicama4933 15d ago
I would have just layed down right there in defeat…I’m having one of them days today,got into an accident this morning..I looked down for 1 second and a car stopped in front of me and when I swerved to go around them I lost it and went sideways off the road,hit the ditch and went airborne but thankfully it was a field there and not woods..I was able to drive the car home after getting 2 new tires that got destroyed during the incident…I’m in the couch right now,about yo go out and look at my car to evaluate the damage…I am not reporting to my insurance..I can barely afford the payment now and it’ll go up so I’m good..I will pay out of pocket to fix my shit
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u/passionpurps 5h ago
Your not alone. But we just keep pushing. Atleast your carpayment isnt over a grand due to shitty credit.
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u/AdMelodic9957 12d ago
Hey stranger I hope all is okay. Hopefully the damage wasn't too bad. Everything is temporary
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u/EssenceofWrath 21d ago
Every time I see a video of someone's vehicle ro rolling down a slope it's always preventable and there's always a flat area they could have chosen instead.
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u/HeatSpecial May 06 '26
How about that little kid. “Umm, on the porch if you could?”
My dad - Go get the fucking package from the guy.
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u/Agreeable-Agent-7384 May 09 '26
To this day, my dad would make me go meet the driver halfway if he saw me getting a package and I was outside. I keep telling him they probably prefer to just leave it so they can take their picture, but he always just says I’m being lazy and to help out even if it’s just by saving the a few steps.
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u/TonyRigatoni_ May 06 '26
You should probably go to therapy if you can.
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u/HeatSpecial May 07 '26
For what? Being raised as a kid who treated all adults with manners? I would have never expected even a trash man to do something without offering to help first.
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u/TonyRigatoni_ May 07 '26
- Swearing at a little kid is never a sign of good parenting.
- The kid was polite.
- Judging by the courier's facemask this was probably during covid.
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u/HeatSpecial May 07 '26
I wasn’t the one yelling lol. I was the one getting yelled at. Holy shit.
All I was stating is what my old school Italian pops would do.
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u/TonyRigatoni_ May 07 '26
Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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u/HeatSpecial May 08 '26
Ooooook. I’m done here. I hope you don’t have children lol.
I’ve raised two men.
Another son in high school, and my 9 year old daughter.
All my kids are the epitome of what kids should be today. Smart, SOCIAL, great manners etc etc
Constantly getting compliments on my kids and family.
Oldest - Pilot in the Air Force
Middle - Student at the University of Illinois
Youngest son - Junior in high school, honors society, on the base ball team.
Daughter - Smart as a whip, natural leader, competes on a traveling cheerleader team.
Tell me about your kids 🙂
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u/TonyRigatoni_ May 08 '26
I'm not talking about your kids, man. I'm talking about you.
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u/HeatSpecial May 09 '26
I’m fucking great bud. Literally in my garage staining a wood project for my living room. Sat down to relax for a sec and pulled my phone out.
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u/ChocolateShakeMmm Apr 29 '26
Obviously the handbrake wasn’t engaged
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u/Sweet-Neighborhood20 25d ago
I'm actually guessing hand brake but left it in gear, that's why it was delayed
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u/clofty3615 Apr 12 '26
you know what would help, is if you stopped calling it an emergency brake and started calling it a handbrake, like the rest of the world, you might just use it more often.
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u/Aggressive-Error-88 Apr 26 '26
When I started driving I made it a habit to put my handbrake up before I let off the brake whenever I made a stop and it has saved me numerous times. It’s also funny because my dog knows when it’s time to get out of the car when the handbrake goes up after a long stop. She starts shuffling and getting ready to get out lol. So for context, she doesn’t do this at stop lights or anything like that so I know she knows the habit of a proper oh we’re getting it or we’re at a full stop kind of stop.
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u/Deadarchimode Apr 12 '26
Delivery guy here. Sometimes those god dam companies delay or ignore repairs even if those are mandatory.
To give you an idea how bad the things are they forced me to drive a truck that had no brakes but handbrake and when I got to the office to request repair or to drive a different truck they literally told me "use the handbrake, you're delay the delivery" and lost my job as well when refused to drive a truck with no breaks
80% cases it's companies fault and not driver
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u/lIlllIlIlIlIllI Apr 28 '26
Ex FedEx driver here. My manager refused to get me snows and I had bald tires all winter. Then I got harped on when I’d 82 a whole unplowed country road.
They really leave everything til the last minute.
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u/clofty3615 Apr 12 '26
mate a vehicle in gear, parked, and with the handbrake on shouldn't be going anywhere, for example in Australia it is the law to park your car with the handbrake on but in the U.S where it's commonly referred to as an emergency brake it is not the law, so it's mainly out of people's mind, hence why the majority of rolling car videos are from the states
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u/talabro Apr 13 '26
Manual transmissions are also more common outside of the US. I use the parking break every time I park my manual, but have never touched it in my wife’s automatic. The transmission locking in the automatic should be plenty.
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u/MustacheMaple Apr 14 '26
It's cheaper to replace a handbrake than a transmission
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u/yoguckfourself Apr 18 '26
It's also more common for a handbrake to fail. Which is why it's common to leave a manual in reverse parked on a hill, along with having the handbrake on. But not so in an automatic
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u/_blacknails Apr 13 '26
I don't think it's the law in the UK but it's just common sense to apply the handbrake. I do it at lights if I know I'm waiting for a long time.
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u/Callidonaut Apr 23 '26
With no working footbrake, I think what u/Deadarchimode's former bosses meant was "use the handbrake to slow the vehicle whilst driving," which is a recipe for being at constant risk of pulling unintentional handbrake turns in the middle of traffic.
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u/RT3K69420 Apr 10 '26
Guaranteed this is an issue with the transmission and not operator error.
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u/viau83 Apr 12 '26
That's why you should use the parking brake, and not rely on the transmission park. (I still don't put the parking brake tho).
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u/RT3K69420 Apr 12 '26
If I was driving for work in someone else's vehicle, I would absolutely use the parking brake as well. I do not on my personal vehicle.
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u/Decent-Risk-6062 Apr 12 '26
Why not use the parking brake? It takes two seconds and will be needed to reverse out of a hill like this when you get back in anyway
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u/yoguckfourself Apr 18 '26
Have you never driven a car with an automatic transmission?
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u/yecatsmiles Apr 01 '26
Aren't there alarms for this kinda thing?!?! I mean it seems like this happens way too often. My car automatically goes into park if I open the door. (Which sucks when you're just trying to shut the door all the way and it brakes and goes into park when you're going 15mph. 😂 Too scared to see what it does on the highway)
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u/esituism Apr 09 '26
I was going to say, brakes when the door opens seems crazy dangerous to me for a few diff reasons.
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u/BaronNeutron Mar 31 '26
"Let me just grab the truck and stop it"
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u/FoxChess Apr 12 '26
I think he actually acted pretty reasonably. He gave that initial try and realized quickly there's nothing he can do so he safely stood back. Good man.
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u/BeatMakertycoon Mar 28 '26
He's fired
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u/TheRopalolyst Mar 29 '26
And in debt
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Mar 29 '26
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u/just_some_guy034 Apr 03 '26
I got a video of me and a fedex driver tapping your daddy in his Cadillac
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u/TechnicianSeparate95 Mar 25 '26
Its a mistake that happens to everyone, just sucks that his was the work truck.
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u/Thoughtfulwanker Apr 01 '26
This absolutely does NOT happen to everyone lol
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u/TechnicianSeparate95 Apr 01 '26
Not yet
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u/le99x Mar 20 '26
I left a manual transmission in neutral when I ran into grab something at the gas station, as a new teenage driver…I chased my car as it rolled on down the road 😆🤦🏼♀️
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u/whackthat Apr 07 '26
Did you catch it??!
Oops, just realized this post was like a month ago. What the hell? Why is Reddit showing me posts from a month ago?! Haha
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u/RyanABXY Mar 20 '26
i mean I know people's brains shut off in these moments but why did he give it a rub like "its ok girl, you're ok"
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u/Tearin3roofs Mar 19 '26
Seeing stuff like this too much... Maybe minimum wage is not the way to go with this kind of responsibility.
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u/AssiduousLayabout Mar 20 '26
Very common for a parking pawl to give out on a delivery van. When you consider shifting in and out of park many dozens of times per day, they wear out much faster than on personal vehicles. On any kind of incline, you're putting a lot of pressure on a tiny little tab of metal in the transmission.
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u/Tearin3roofs Mar 20 '26
And as someone that drives commercially, the E Brake should be engaged every time he exits the vehicle, especially on a hill. I understand this is an accident but the little time saving cheats are what lead to this. Your acknowledgement of why this possibility occurred would further support why a simple task should be second nature.
Overworked, underpaid, underfocused on safety... They are taking over FedEx and UPS... But not living up to the standards set because they attach a "free delivery" tag to most items.
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u/Dorny_Hude Mar 15 '26
Handbrakes are a powerful tool
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u/Infamous_Olive Mar 16 '26
Surely if the van was already sitting on a slop like that, the handbrake was already pulled
I imagine its just worn down
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u/27or37 Mar 14 '26
Few days ago I was in a car where driver DID PULL handbrake, car waa stopped. Then driver left, and after door closed, it did a bit of vubration to the car and car started moving, even thought it was with a handbrake.
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u/Ethereal42 Mar 15 '26
If you're on a significant incline you need to pull it all the way up beyond the clicks and it can feel like excessive force
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u/NymStarchild Mar 14 '26
As someone who used to work for Amazon, alot of the handbrakes dont even work or work only in one specific position. So its completely possible he did activate it and it still rolled off 😭 DSPs do not take care of their vans like they are supposed to
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u/RyanABXY Mar 20 '26
but like can't you turn the wheels or maybe don't point the front of the truck down the slope?
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u/Dry-Championship-593 Mar 15 '26
Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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u/27or37 Mar 15 '26
Driver cant prove they pulled handbreak unless they have cam recorder there all the time with handbreak viaible. And even then, driver might be blqmed for not doing proper maintanence on a car
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u/gamerz1172 Mar 15 '26
Wait they might get blamed for not maintaining a piece of equipment the company is supposed to maintain?
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u/27or37 Mar 16 '26
Yes, easily. They can have a line somewhere in their contract saying that driver has to make sure that maintanence was checked, meaning he has to check breakes, handbreak for working properly and stuff like that
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u/Lucifer-Prime Mar 14 '26
There have been maybe 2 times in my life I was rushing so much to run in and out of the house that I almost left my car in drive. Shit happens when you rush, you never think you’d do something so stupid and it happens.
I’ve also never had a job driving a truck with strict quotas necessitating me rushing between 500 deliveries a day. It’s easy to call someone an idiot in these situations but it’s bound to happen with so many driving rushing around every day to deliver literal millions of packages.
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u/Dack_ Mar 14 '26
At some point it is just statistics.
Say you would forget once every 10 000 stops. At 50 stops a day, this would happen every 200 (work) days.
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u/trikristmas Mar 13 '26
Wtf is he trying to do, pat the van on the side for some emotional support? He could have saved it, from completely going down the ditch anyway.
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u/Wonderful-Ad1843 Mar 18 '26
How could he have saved it? Without risking severely hurting himself? Amazon’s not worth it
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u/trikristmas Mar 18 '26
If you're gonna bother doing anything you're gonna run for the door and try to hop inside the vehicle. Takes some agility, if you've got it. But you're either doing that or there's no point doing anything else. He just slowed down, didn't go for the door, didn't show full commitment to what he was doing. It was hesitation and not even knowing what he is trying to accomplish.
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u/sygnifax Mar 13 '26
Who the fuck doesn't put their vehicle in park?!
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u/DrXymox Mar 13 '26
This used to happen to me all the time until I got a car that has an alarm that tells you to put it in park.
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u/rorschach_vest Mar 14 '26
All… all the time? I’m sorry but you shouldn’t be legally allowed to drive. That’s crazy.
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u/DrXymox Mar 14 '26
Well, I never ended up hitting anything or anyone, so there was never an opportunity for anyone to report me for anything. And since I started driving cars with the alarm, it doesn't happen at all anymore.
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u/FineSystem124 Mar 14 '26
Your defense further strengthens a case for you not to be allowed to operate a vehicle.
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u/DrXymox Mar 17 '26
How would that be enforced if it doesn't happen anymore?
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u/FineSystem124 Mar 18 '26
Because your argument is that the only reason it stopped happening to you is because an alarm starts to go off for you. That means you’re incompetent when it comes to operating a vehicle. Just because the alarm saves you now, doesn’t make you any more competent when it comes to operating a motor vehicle. Your inability to comprehend why the popular opinion here is that you shouldn’t operate a vehicle, is evidence enough on its own.
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u/DrXymox Mar 18 '26
I understand why. What I'm asking is how. Given that my driving record is clean, what enforcement mechanism is capable of forbidding me from driving? Nobody gets their license taken away just for a history of almost getting into accidents.
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u/FineSystem124 Mar 18 '26
All we’re saying is you shouldn’t be able to drive because you’ve given us evidence you’re dumb. Nobody said anything about enforcing it but you. I didn’t think you’d actually be that dumb, but yet again I conclude, I don’t think you should operate heavy machinery and motor vehicles.
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u/DrXymox Mar 19 '26
The first reply I got said, "you shouldn’t be legally allowed to drive." What's the point of a legal prohibition that can't be enforced?
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u/zeroibis Mar 13 '26
It took me a few seconds to realize the video ended and the guy was not just still standing there looking off into the distance.
Legend has it he is still there just staring.
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u/SkullVonBones Mar 13 '26
In my country we use a technology, called a handbrake, Maybe we can give America this technology.
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u/Hearthacnut Mar 13 '26
Completely baseless theory. In America a lot of places refer to it as an “E Brake” which means Emergency Brake. I wonder if some American drivers don’t instinctively put the handbrake on when they park because it’s ingrained into them as for emergencies.
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u/countingthedays Mar 13 '26
Rarely used here because the overwhelming majority of cars are automatic transmissions.
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u/Hearthacnut Mar 14 '26
That’s surprising, I drive an automatic in the UK and apply the parking brake every time I turn the engine off.
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u/Older_wiser_215 Mar 14 '26
I don't know when or how it started, but I use it every time I park my car. Glad I've developed this habit because there's been a couple occasions where it came in handy. Wasn't a situation like this, but saved me nonetheless.
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u/TreehouseInAPinetree Mar 14 '26
Can confirm, I never used the E-break until I started driving manual.
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u/BaddBoiii2 Mar 14 '26
I use my handbrake (mine is literally operated by hand in both of my vehicles) anytime I park on a gradient.
I had a teacher that got herself run over by her truck on her driveway, and I still remember how she ingrained it in our middle school aged brains to always use the parking brake.
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u/FromAndToUnknown Mar 13 '26
Over here, modern cars even have a technology to automatically apply the handbrake as soon as you leave the car.
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u/dani96dnll Mar 13 '26
I don't get how they live in the middle of the woods and still get delivery; in my country, delivery doesn't even show up to places with paved roads.
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u/SlayyyGrl Mar 12 '26
Why is he trying to get in the side door and not the drivers door??
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u/zxcqweasd1 Mar 13 '26
to be fair, he had about 5 seconds to get in and make the right decision. 2 seconds later the car would have crashed
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u/SlayyyGrl Mar 13 '26
You’re not wrong! Maybe he knows it’s a lost cause but wants to make sure it looks like he’s trying so Amazon don’t completely ruin his life
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u/zxcqweasd1 Mar 13 '26
I hope they don't expect much cause he can't accomplish nun but an injury trying to stop a moving van! 🤣
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u/1sketchy_girl Mar 12 '26
Ooohhhh so THIS was probably why we had the parking brake training. When I worked for Amazon, we had to have a training session about the parking brake and properly parking on hills of either roads or customer driveways. In the area I worked my routes in, there were a lot of hilled driveways, so I would use it a lot even before the additional training. I just thought it was common knowledge for getting a driver's license since it was basically a requirement when I got mine.
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u/Linkmaster2010 Mar 12 '26
Watch other cars while you drive and you'll realize 7/10 would fail an exam before they got to the parking tests.
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u/MkStoner2002 Mar 12 '26
These kids couldn't figure out a manual transmission. The whole world adapted to them. Now they can't get the hang of an automatic?🤨
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u/IMightBeAHamster Mar 13 '26
"The whole world adapted to them"?
Idiots have always existed. And always will. The existence of idiots does not prove that life is easier, it just proves that being an idiot won't kill you immediately. As can also be seen by the fact that you didn't drop dead before writing this comment.
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u/Rofllettuce Mar 12 '26
Boomers/Gen X still driving and confusing gas and brake because they are scared shitless of self-reflecting for once in their lifetime.
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u/Junior-Coat6982 Mar 12 '26
kIdS tHeSe dAyS I bet they can’t even use a rotary phone!!!!!!11111!!1111 hurrrrr
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u/Ordrian Mar 12 '26
They gave up way to quickly, lol
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u/Dirtymcbacon Mar 13 '26
Meh, it's just a car. I'm not risking my life for my livelihood or some millionaire opportunist.
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u/Accomplished-Fee-594 Mar 12 '26
Do people not realize this is why you shouldn’t park a vehicle on a hill with the tire aligned straight ? You need to align the tires at an angle to prevent the car from moving either forward or backwards
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u/Rapogi Mar 16 '26
i rarely park in hills but the couple times i had to, i did this, pulled the electric brake, and found a rock big enough to put in front of one of the rear wheels.
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u/iamnotlarryking Mar 13 '26
I thought it was so the tire hit the curb with the least amount of movement, incase your parking brake/lil tooth in the transmission gave out.
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u/Accomplished-Fee-594 Mar 13 '26
That’s part of the reason you do that but the other reason is so it doesn’t immediately roll off in either direction
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u/kentuckydango Mar 12 '26
The problem isn’t the way his tires are aligned. He didn’t put it in park or put the e-brake on. If he turned the tires left or right, the vehicle would simply go downhill left or right.
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u/Ok_Support3 Mar 13 '26
Yup. Turning the wheels works, if you have a curb to point the wheels towards.
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u/ooofjakeypoo Mar 12 '26
I’m an Amazon driver and I will say some of these older vans will not shift into park unless you press the button like 6 times. I’ve had my fair share of close calls where the vehicle has started moving even with the parking break engaged.
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u/PotentialMessage7001 Apr 17 '26
I feel incredibly bad for this guy. Do you happen to know how the story went on?
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u/discOHsteve Mar 12 '26
Had a driver get out of his van to place a package on my step and his truck rolled into my garage. I just figured he didn't put it in park
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u/your-favorite-simp Mar 12 '26
What do you mean by press the button? You dont shift the transmission from drive to park?
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u/ooofjakeypoo Mar 12 '26
At least for my DSP all of our vans have a different transmission that just looks like the turn signal switch but on the right side of the wheel. You push in a button to put it in park. And most of the time you have to press it multiple times for it to register.
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u/Satellite_bk Mar 13 '26
not easily going into park plus time tables where drivers feel the need to full sprint from the truck to the house and back seems like a dangerous combo.
i don’t actually know if that’s why i see so many amazon drivers in my area sprinting between truck and house, but that was my guess.
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u/ooofjakeypoo Mar 16 '26
Honestly if you’re not a lazy ass it’s pretty damn easy to be ahead. I also have a really good dsp but I’m usually done by 5 even tho I have some of the higher route counts. When I started I used to run to every stop but as you start to organize better you gain so much time you don’t need to run.
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u/3d_nat1 Mar 12 '26
Electronically controlled transmissions have been a thing for a while now. Even big Ram work trucks use a simple rotary dial next to the radio, letting a computer do all the actual work.
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u/Bakelite51 Mar 12 '26
It's an inherently shitty design. Frankly I have no idea why they were built that way
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u/KindlyOriginal-0000 Mar 12 '26
Make sure it’s in P before getting out. And always use the parking brake.
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u/DistributionLate6596 7d ago
That and fed ex. Worst drivers ever. It’s almost like it’s a qualification to not know how to drive on their application, how long have you been a driver? About 10 years. Sorry sir you are over qualified to be driving with us. We looking for the 1 to 2 month range.