RCK10 wrote:
martin prince wrote:
so the speed limit on Savoline is 60?
And yes, to a certain extent, I am denying it. Do people speed? Of course they do. (By the sounds of it, you're one of them, unless Savoline is not a residential street.) But people do not speed at the break neck rates posters on this forum will have you believe.
I've lived here for years. I'm either the most oblivious and blind person in town, or most people exaggerate and generalize.
I don't know what to tell you dude. I don't think the speed limit is 60, but that's about how fast I was going. Is that speeding? I'm sure it is. I didn't claim that it wasn't. What I DID claim is that out of the 4 or 5 times I've been to that neighbourhood, twice I've been passed by people going quite a bit faster than me. And I've watched how fast people ahead of me pull away when we're moving in the same direction.
Your personal lack of experience is quite irrelevant when other people are describing their own. Your denial of other people's perceptions does not refute the idea that people are speeding. If you want to play the logical/scientific game, come more prepared.
Your certainty that people don't speed at the "break-neck speeds" (your descriptive term, nobody else's on here) comes from the fact that YOU have never seen it.
I've never seen a human albino... that doesn't mean they don't/can't, nor does it mean that people who claim to have seen one are exaggerating.
Note the slight hypocrisy of you saying that "most" people generalize.
If I sound angry or aggressive it's because I am. It pisses me off LARGE when I'm driving and I see people doing dangerous things and to hear people deny, condone or justify it makes it worse. People can and do die because of inconsiderate drivers.
What's ironic is that you are speeding on a residential street and complaining that people are speeding on a residential street at the same time. But for some reason it's ok when you do it, and pisses you off LARGE when others do.
There is a new thread on this forum every other day about speeders. I've lived here for 5 plus years, I drive in this town every day. I just don't see it. It's a safe place. With new posts and threads popping up all the time here, it's reasonable to think I'd have come across a few of these road raging lunatics by now. Yet somewhow, by the grace of god, I continue to get where I'm going safely.
Some person walking down the street on a sidewalk posting that there are speeders everywhere lacks any teeth to me. There is no perspective. I don't doubt that they
think people are speeding, and maybe they are, but not from a sidewalk vantage point.
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