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  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldCar
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    22 days ago

    The footrest is still there in a manual car. The brake pedal is smaller, the clutch in between.

    When you brake you hit the clutch with the left foot and brake with the right one on the brake pedal. Unintentionally smashing the wider brake pedal can happen if you switch from a smaller car to one with a very wide brake pedal. (Mercedes have quite wide brake pedals, for example)

    It also happened a few times to me over my. life until I got used to put my left foot very close to the seat when driving automatic, so I don’t subconsciously use it. (Just “away” from where I’d have it in a manual car)

    It typically happens if you need to do emergency braking anyways and just all the reflexes kick in. In normal situations it never happened to me.



  • Exactly this thought made made me understand “god is irrelevant” a long time ago and I became an agnosticist.

    I really can not understand people who are only “good” because they fear an ultimate judgment, and not be good just because they want to out of their own volition.

    In case there are gods, I’ll be judged for who I am, anyways. It doesn’t matter if I play “good child”. If there are no gods, I’m still happier if I’m not an asshole.










  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldFolksy stuff
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    3 months ago

    Many years, ago, early morning routine. I needed to go to work, so I just just told my then 3 1/2y old daughter she couldn’t go to kindergarden right now, we go a little later.

    Stamping her foot, “Nooooooo, I want to go now”

    “Ok, if you insist…”

    (That was in the “learning to say no” phase when she said “no” to everything for a time)


  • froh42@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldSpring has sprung
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    3 months ago

    I know, shitpost.

    But: A few years ago the front right spring broke on my Peugeot 307 van, dug itself into the tire and ripped of the tire when I tried to. move the car. (It was parked when it happened)

    Two hours before I had driven that van on the Autobahn at its vmax of about 180kph (about 110mph)

    Ripping off the front tire would NOT have been a fun situation.