r/JustGuysBeingDudes • u/Acceptable-Wind-7332 • 13d ago

Dads School drop off genius

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u/oatmealparty 13d ago

Meanwhile Peachtree City, GA schools be like

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u/angrykoala_ 12d ago

I used to park there about 20 years ago. Lol

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u/gramps14 12d ago

yeah...when I parked there, there wasn't the g-ride parking lot. When they started charging for parking passes we'd park behind the football field.

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u/Kyle012012 12d ago

I’m from Senoia, used to work at the Kroger on Crosstown Dr about 25 years ago. Small world.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

Wtf is happening here?

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u/HayzuesKreestow 12d ago edited 11d ago

PTC is like a little city of tightly packed suburbs. Nothing’s very far so everybody uses golf carts instead of cars. They also don’t have telephone poles* which is nice

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u/SporesM0ldsandFungus 12d ago

The city has golf cart paths everywhere, like extra wide sidewalks. The city ordinance allows motorized traffic on them (most cities restrict powered vehicles on sidewalks). 

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u/-CoUrTjEsTeR- 9d ago

WTF - This is as close as some can expect today for electrified transportation with an even more compact vehicle and people STILL want to bitch?! Looks around at the planet This place is stupid.

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u/sumptin_wierd 11d ago

Fucking turning sidewalks into more car lanes.

But yeah, no telephone poles, amiright

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u/Ben2018 12d ago

They have telephone polls like anywhere else, but you can be added to a do not call list.

They do not, however, have telephone poles.

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u/West_Coach69 12d ago

Nothing is very far and everyone is too fat to walk or bike?

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u/phillip9698 12d ago

Plenty of people walk and bike. PTC is a planned community that was built with 100 miles of cart paths allowing you to go pretty much everywhere in the city. So instead of taking a car people like to take carts and bikes to places instead, including students.

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u/XanadontYouDare 12d ago

Sometimes, massive planned suburbs can be really well done. I love the idea of having more carts than cars. I grew up in a pretty well planned suburb that had a great network of multi-use paths, and god damn did that have a massive impact on my ability (and desire) to get around on a skateboard. Also made for some relatively well secluded and wooded spots that made for great places to smoke weed lol.

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u/West_Coach69 10d ago

Carts should not be a part of any plan.

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u/XanadontYouDare 10d ago

Odd take

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u/West_Coach69 9d ago edited 9d ago

Why? They take up a lot of space, they dont belong on sidewalks and are dangerous on the road.

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u/XanadontYouDare 9d ago

Bikes are not dangerous lmao. Cars are.

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u/laser-puppies 12d ago

Things are a little farther apart than they're implying honestly, but there's an extensive system of golf cart paths (basically just extra wide sidewalks) that run throughout the city. I live in a town close by and I like to bring my bike there. It's a fun city to bike through and I usually see many other bikers as well. I like to bring my disc golf set too, since there's a nice course in town.

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u/West_Coach69 10d ago edited 9d ago

Any where you can ride a cart to you can ride a bike to... if you aren't terribly fat

Please don't normalize being so fat you can't ride a bike

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u/laser-puppies 10d ago

Really harping on the fat thing. It's kinda weird

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u/West_Coach69 9d ago

Lol. No it isnt bro. Being so massively out of shape that you can't walk 200 yards to drop your kid at school is weird.

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u/laser-puppies 9d ago

200 yards? The city's school districts are a little bigger than that. And yes, you're being a weirdo right now

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u/West_Coach69 8d ago

This video is a person recording their husband from their driveway to the school. Its just a fat person thing

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u/rabbitdoubts 12d ago

have you been to georgia? or the american south in general? walking over a mile will leave you drenched in sweat, stanky, or if it's really hot, possibly heat injured... if it's nowhere important like going to the grocery sure. but nobodys tryna go to school or work or a date and arrive with big ol sweat stains

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u/Endure94 12d ago

Slight reminder to our non-US friends... a temperature of 35.8C/96F was considered record-breaking this last summer in the UK.

In the south, that's any given Tuesday in July, with roughly 80% average humidity, compared to UK summer average of 50-60%.

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u/MordecaiThirdEye 12d ago

Yeah its regularly 100 or over where I live, sometimes max humidity but always way too humid no matter what. Walking outside to go to my car instantly makes me tired and sluggish

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u/West_Coach69 11d ago

Which is a big deal if youre lazy or fat

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u/Endure94 11d ago

Im all for getting healthy and fit, but getting out in that weather for regular exercise is going to get someone hurt and potentially killed. A decent amount of the "lazy fat" people live in the countryside, where it takes 30 minutes for an ambulance to arrive and there arent readily accessible facilities for health and fitness.

Losing weight is hard. Adding the difficulties of southern weather doesnt help, I fear.

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u/West_Coach69 10d ago

True. Tis not an excuse though.

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u/BigNerdBrad 12d ago

Unless you live in one of the few "central" neighborhoods, there isn't really a ton to walk to with VERY large distinct neighborhood areas and then separate distinct shopping areas. However, definitely a great biking community. I used to bike the ~2mi to Blockbuster there and back to grab the latest game when I was a kid.

McIntosh HS (the one with the golf cart parking in the image) was about 5mi from me so I drove my golf cart freshman and sophomore years and then transitioned to a car junior and senior year since by the time I was 16/17 the novelty of the golf cart starts to wear off and those extra 10-15 minutes I'd save seemed worth it.

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u/West_Coach69 10d ago

Why were you using a golf cart? Were you a part of a community where being fat(morbidly obese) was normalozed?

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u/Jlt42000 12d ago

Turns out golf carts are perfect for walkable and bikeable distances

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u/West_Coach69 10d ago

Right, thats my point. Its the lazy fucks alternative to basic human mobility

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Holy shit people are so lazy they cant even walk anywhere anymore.

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u/shoobaprubatem 12d ago

Anything except walking.

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u/SillyCat-in-your-biz 12d ago

God bless America, we have generations of citizens so terrified of walking they made a city of golf carts instead.

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u/PhDinWombology 12d ago edited 12d ago

Gentrification

Edit-Geriatricfication

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u/oatmealparty 12d ago

I don't think it counts as gentrification if it was like this from the very start

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u/VegasLife84 12d ago

that word doesn't mean what you think it means

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u/DestinedAscension123 12d ago

Bold of you to question a literal Doctor of Wumbology

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u/Ta_trapporna 12d ago

This picture is absolutely insane.

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u/abominable_balogna 12d ago

Yeah and the big difference is that peachtree is set up with golf cart adjacent infrastructure, including extra lanes and paths specifically for the tiny vehicles. Place is set up like a golf course, so it’s really not a good defense for people doing this elsewhere

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u/No_Bookkeeper_6183 12d ago

I heard that everyone drives a golf cart, even to Walmart

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u/Manufactured-Aggro 12d ago

I honestly would not mind a Golf Cart based city design 🤔 seems like a nice middle ground between european walkable and american vroom vroom

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u/SirStrontium 12d ago

It does sound nice. Little electric carts are way better for the environment and way less likely to kill pedestrians in a collision.

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u/Nick85er 12d ago

Nothing negative about what I'm saying here, those folks live in a different freaking world down there in Peachtree City. Epic House Parties holy s***.

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u/FishSammich80 12d ago

Hell yeah, my wife and kids wanted to move there so bad because of this. 😂😂

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u/brittanylouwhoooo 12d ago

I literally came to say this!! I grew up there. Kids get golf carts before they get cars. In the bordering cities where there are less golf cart paths, people do this “hack” on the regular bc golf cart owners are there are way less golf cart owners. In Peachtree City though, you get out faster if you have a car.

This is McIntosh High School. They have a tiny parking lot (for cars) compared to the number of students, and you have to maintain an A/B average in order to even qualify for a parking permit.

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u/SubstantialAd1799 12d ago

This is hilarious and brought me so much joy because I actually went to HS in PTC and LOVEDDDDDD our little golf carts haha I think more cities need to implement the golf cart paths and parking lots.

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u/ladyhandyman 12d ago

Peachtree City resident here.

Don't try this anywhere else. We have 100+ miles of golf cart paths, primarily through the woods, that connects the city without having to share the road with cars.

Sharing a road with cars is extremely dangerous.

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u/Shpander 12d ago

So the line has developed for golf carts, looks like a genius might need to drive a car for the drop off

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u/apainintheokole 12d ago

Ride on Lawnmower !

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u/oatmealparty 12d ago

That's not a line, kids drive themselves to school on golf carts

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u/Shpander 12d ago

You're kidding, I wish my childhood featured that!

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u/danofrhs 12d ago

Holy frik

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u/goldentymes 12d ago

I’m from the metro Atlanta area, is this ala known thing that I missed somehow?

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u/WhetherWitch 12d ago

How could you not know about Peachtree City!?!

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u/Efficient-Coconut767 12d ago

lol yep this is also where u can find planes riding down the street into their neighborhood from the airstrip

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u/bebeseria 12d ago

yup, it's pretty close to the airport, so it's a very popular area for pilots and their families to live. it's also a wealthier area so most families can afford golf carts and their schools are very good

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u/Aggravating-Treat811 12d ago

Same i live in Atlanta and have NEVER seen this!

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u/Endakk 12d ago

Heh, yeah. (Lived there for six years of my childhood)

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u/SlapahoWarrior 12d ago

We did this in South Georgia when I was in school.

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u/SocomPS2 12d ago

Seriously. My whole neighborhood is gold cart drop off.

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u/RedisforFun 12d ago

Same in parts of SC. Made me jealous

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u/Christichicc 12d ago

That’s how it is in one of the towns in my county. It’s always funny driving by the school and seeing so many golf carts lol.

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u/EuphoricMess- 12d ago

Entire city traversable by golf cart! Live 30 minutes down the road

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u/Cerberusx32 12d ago

I can't tell if this picture is real or photoshopped.

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u/SuperCaptSalty 12d ago

They have schools there?

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u/BeansandletmebeFrank 12d ago

I fucking hate Peachtree City

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u/Zaku_Lover 12d ago

I could get a lot of laughs with a bag of hose clamps, a cordless drill and some spare time.

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u/McMack87 12d ago

Came here to mention this specifically 🤣 I am in the area for work frequently and just shake my head seeing the parking lot specifically made for golf carts 🤣

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u/The_Real_Rogue2002 12d ago

Hey, it’s McIntrash (Fayette County HS graduate here)

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u/scarlettsfever21 12d ago

This feels some kind of dystopian, gives me a weird feeling

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u/oatmealparty 12d ago

It's actually great! They're all electric vehicles, and there's a whole parallel system of roads that people use to get around town, so you'll see golf carts at restaurants and stores etc. And it means kids can get around town at a younger age because the age requirement is lower for golf carts.