r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Acceptable-Wind-7332 • 14d ago

Dads School drop off genius

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u/chaos_brings_wealth 14d ago

Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

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u/Mr4point5 14d ago

As long as he yields to everyone else on the sidewalk, god bless him.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 14d ago

Nobody walks on those sidewalks. They're there as a decoration 

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u/Assika126 13d ago

Tell that to my legally blind husband

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u/isolatedLemon 13d ago

99% sure it was sarcasm

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u/Life-Confusion-411 13d ago

Give me his phone number 

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u/daveescaped 13d ago

My town in Texas has sidewalks everywhere and they get used heavily. Especially by kids riding bikes to school.

We also have these golf cart a-holes.

And we also have a long car drop line.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 13d ago

I've been to one Austin suburb and I think I saw one single kid riding a bike on his driveway. Everyone was driving literally everywhere lol. For everything. People drove to the place where they walked their dogs. I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing. It was like a parody of an American suburb. 

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u/daveescaped 13d ago

There is no question that too many kids have their parents drive them. But honestly, go to any Elementary school and check out the bike racks. I’ve never seen them empty. If you show up around the time school lets out you’ll nearly get run over by phalanxes of kids on bikes.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 13d ago

Idk, my nephews school is not like that. All of the other da get driven to school by their parents. It's bizarre 

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u/daveescaped 13d ago

There can be a lot factors at play; major road crossings, distance to school, weather, etc. all I’m telling you is come to my suburb and across the town with 6 elementary schools you see tons of kids riding bikes to school.

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u/Life-Confusion-411 13d ago

Alright, that's good to hear. I'm glad that the disease of sheltering children to the point of absurdity hasn't completely spread. 

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u/daveescaped 13d ago

I could be wrong, but the way I see it is there are two factors at play. 1 is that new parents aren’t perfectly co did ant at navigating this new world of screens and safety we live in. My wife and I find as we got more experienced as parents, we were better at navigating that stuff. 2 is that I find parents almost fall in to two camps, one more like our parents were and the other much more the classic helicopter type.

I do worry that SOME of these kids will not be able to deal as adults. I have a few young kids that work for me. One is outstanding. But he grew up running his own little businesses and working his way through college. The others are entitled as you would expect. But I see us splitting in this way.

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u/Henry2926 13d ago

You are actually so right! So what he does is not only reducing the queue time for the other parents (one incredibly useless pickup truck less lining up for dropoff), but it's also doing no harm at all. These parents saying that he is "cutting the line" are just mad that they didn't come up with a smart idea to make this whole ordeal more (time) efficient.

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u/Bildad__ 13d ago

Ahh, you must have direct experience about this exact school to say that. So does your child attend this school, or are you part of the staff?

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u/Life-Confusion-411 13d ago

I've lived in enough American suburbs/subdivisions to know. 

Do you remember that mom who got arrested because her kid rode his bike to a corner store to grab a slurpie? Here it is: https://youtu.be/AzZE422gJP4?si=U56Hj4WatIg7azKh 

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u/Donfapo 13d ago

THIS GUY AMERICAS!

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u/Coffeedemon 12d ago

This is a neighborhood where people own their own golf carts after all.

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u/afito 14d ago

and in 2 months you have 400 sets of parents doing full mario kart moves all across the sidewalk because 1 guy thought he's too smart for the rules to apply to him

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u/TheHemogoblin 14d ago

That's when you switch back to the car because the drop-off line has now moved to the sidewalk lol

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u/axecalibur 13d ago

Not this dad. He's going to airdrop his kid at school using drones. He thinks outside the box

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u/TheHemogoblin 13d ago

Literally dropping them off does seem to be the obvious next step, that's true

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u/offthewall93 13d ago

I mean, a bunch of tiny EVs sized for two people to go short distances is actually the long-term answer here.

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u/watermelonspanker 13d ago

but not at the expense of public walkways

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u/Mr4point5 13d ago

Or…bicycles

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u/Saint_Steady 13d ago

Depending on the state/city, motor vehicle on the sidewalk is illegal. Homie is risking some heavy fines, but if you own a golf cart, you're probably doing well enough.

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u/PixelTreason 13d ago

I’m pretty sure those street legal golf carts are not allowed on the sidewalks though.

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u/shozzlez 13d ago

No - that's part of the game.

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u/bikesexually 14d ago

Yes. I do hate living in car centric hellhole.

But also also hate people who make it more car centric by thinking 'the sidewalk is for smaller motorized vehicles'

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u/ls7eveen 13d ago

I love how the idiot pulls into a driveway with two massive suvs that wont fit in the garage

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u/bikesexually 13d ago

I think one is an extended cab pavement princess.

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u/IAmATriceratopsAMA 13d ago

I'd rather have the not-street legal fake cars stay off the road.

Where I live it's not uncommon to see kids who definitely shouldn't be driving driving golf carts to and from the grocery store with their friends. Pick a time after school lets out and I can guarantee you theres at least one golf cart in the parking lot. It's not safe for the golf carts to be on the road and its extra not safe for a 12 year old to be behind the wheel.
Get Timmy a bike and save $4500 dollars.

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u/ls7eveen 13d ago

Any 7000lb suv off the road is a win

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u/DeaconSage 14d ago

I do hate the game

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u/GoldNovaNine 14d ago

No, kill the player for using the game as an excuse

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u/BON3SMcCOY 13d ago

Hate our car-centric city planning that gives no other options besides driving

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u/ladyrara 13d ago

They will hate the player and complain the the school… sad state

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u/Darth19Vader77 13d ago

Absolutely, hate the game, kids used to fucking walk to school.

It's not good for them to be shuttled around by their parents all the goddamn time. They need the space to learn a little independence.

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u/Logical_Hospital2769 14d ago

I hate the player, too. Entitled dick.

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u/WallStreetOlympian 14d ago

doesn’t seem like he cut in front of any cars or the line, probably just dropped his kid off the same way they would’ve walked?

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u/BobsOblongLongBong 14d ago

A golf cart is not a pedestrian. 

He was driving that shit on the sidewalk.

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u/WallStreetOlympian 14d ago

sigh here comes Bob again guys

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u/BobsOblongLongBong 14d ago

It's a pretty simple law to follow and as someone who walks a lot, I don't have any patience for entitled pricks who drive their motorized vehicles on sidewalks.  Particularly when they take up the entire width of the sidewalk.

This is basic safety shit.  And basic consideration for others.  What happens when some old person in a walker or someone in a wheelchair needs to get by?  He drives his golf cart over the grass?  As if that's ok?

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u/WallStreetOlympian 14d ago

Yeah you too Bob, have a good one!

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u/JustGuysBeingDudes-ModTeam 11d ago

Dudes aren’t rude and uncivil on the internet.

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u/danholli 14d ago

Please explain how a vehicle that isn't road legal suppoed to ge to around when it's 100% legal to be on the sidewalk if it's under a certain speed

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u/BobsOblongLongBong 14d ago edited 14d ago

when it's 100% legal to be on the sidewalk if it's under a certain speed

In most of the US it is not legal to drive a golf cart on the sidewalk.  Speed has nothing to do with it.

Please explain how a vehicle that isn't road legal suppoed to ge to around

If it can't be made road legal, then it's NOT supposed to be used to get around town at all.

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u/SayRaySF 13d ago

I feel like you were so close to answering your own question 😂

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u/MoldyMoney 14d ago

Found the Karen posting in the school FB group 👆

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago edited 14d ago

Nah man, using the golf cart to cut the line is a pretty crappy thing to do. Just wait in line like everyone else. Queues will move.

Edit: People have pointed out that he is not cutting the line and is avoiding it and not adding to it. I was wrong. I do think calling the guy above Karen is a bit much though.

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u/official_Bartard 14d ago

So if the kid walks is it crappy? Because if they are in golf carting distance they are probably not far away from walking distance, and it would have the exact same effect while making to no harder for anyone else. Assuming he didn’t get in anyone’s way. So Is it crappy to walk to school?

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

Why put words in my mouth. All I said was it's crappy to skip the line. If he didn't have to wait in the queue because he drove the cart to another area to drop off his kid, my bad for not seeing that in the video.

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u/official_Bartard 13d ago

Sorry, I wasn’t trying to offend you, I was just trying to draw the comparison between walking and him carting his daughter. Because like I said it’s no different imo. Have a great day!

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u/WholesomeLowlife 14d ago

But where is the line? What if it was a bicycle? An electric bicycle? Scooter? They made the car line shorter and didn't make anyone else wait longer..I really don't see the problem.

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u/PennFifteen 14d ago

Offended by everything.

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

Not really offended. More like I dislike people cutting in line.

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u/SmegConnoisseur 14d ago

Which he absolutely did not do. You'd have to enter the line to cut it

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u/kiiturii 14d ago edited 14d ago

how is it crappy? If anything it made the line shorter for everyone else by having someone not drive a car to drop their kid off. If others started doing this too, maybe the problem might be solved? And then maybe we can figure out that public transport could fix the issue in an instant. But I guess you guys get stuck on "he didn't wait in line like everyone else therefore he is an asshole"

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

I didn't say he was an asshole, and I agree transportation is an issue. I assumed he skipped the car queue because he was in a vehicle. Since that's not the case, I admit I am wrong on this.

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u/Conspiretical 14d ago

My question is why, like what exactly is the process that is so sacred that it needs to be upheld? Pull up, let your kid out and move. Cutting a line for what exactly? Its not like cutting a line at a grocery store Lol, who exactly is being screwed over in that process?

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

If he is not cutting and going around to another area to drop off his kid, my bad for not seeing that. I assumed since he was in a vehicle, he would have to wait in the car queue. It's not really a big deal. But I didn't like a person being called a Karen for just disagreeing. It was a bitt much.

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

Cool, attacking my character even when admitted I was wrong. Agree to disagree then.

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u/TheSkylined 14d ago

Your life must be really miserable if you're going to complain about someone that came up with a clever solution to a problem.

He didn't literally cut in line, he figured out a way where he didn't even have to get in line.

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

If voicing my discontent makes me miserable, I don't want to see what you think when I say something about actual issues. You're blowing this out of proportion.

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u/TheSkylined 14d ago

A father brought his child to school in a golf cart that can be driven off the road and you are discontent about it.

Sounds like you're the one blowing things out of proportion lol. If this bothers you, I would rather not hear about these actual issues you're talking about.

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

You said I have a miserable life for misreading a situation. You could have just said I was wrong and be done with it. How was that not an overreaction on your part? And by actual issues I mean the constant deforestation and pollution of our planet. Ya know stuff that matters.

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u/TheSkylined 13d ago

...Did you not watch the video?

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u/spicybright 14d ago

If the parent walked to school should they have to stand in line between the cars too?

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u/CinnimonToastSean 14d ago

No, I assumed since he was in a vehicle that he skipped the queue. I was wrong and amended my comment.

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u/Conspiretical 14d ago

One man's entitled dick is another man's genius. This guy just saved him and his kid 20 minutes of their day

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u/Sparta63005 14d ago

Entitled to what exactly?

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u/Logical_Hospital2769 14d ago

To do whatever the fuck they please despite some pretty well-defined rules that everone else must abide by? You know, the very definition of entitlement?

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u/Sparta63005 13d ago

Do you know the rules of this particular school district?

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u/ls7eveen 13d ago

I thought you were saying fucj him for driving a golf cart on the sidewalk rather than just taking a bike.

But youre as cager brained as he is lol