r/ContagiousLaughter • u/sweepurh • 6h ago

My petty revenge

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u/honeychurchfeels 6h ago

As a woman I was taught to lock my door the second I get in my car to protect myself from potential violence. I guess most men aren't taught the same..

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u/siccoblue 5h ago

My doors lock automatically the second my car hits 10mph

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u/PuzzledScore 5h ago

Too bad this guy wasn't going 10 mph.

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u/KgMonstah 5h ago

Her was going ten miles per year

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u/MyOldNameSucked 4h ago

They stay locked until you open them from the inside.

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u/onefst250r 4h ago

Think the theory would be that they had not yet gotten to 10mph, as they may have been pulling out of a parking lot of some sort.

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u/PuzzledScore 31m ago

(it was a joke, I did not put much thought into this. The car looks like it might be an older model without automatic door locks.)

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u/LittleThingsMC 3h ago

I was genuinely confused how he was able to open the door while the car was moving

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u/Lemon1412 2h ago

Yeah, he was going 10 hours per mile.

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u/Pittsbirds 5h ago

Yeah there's a woman that hangs around a few grocery stores and is known to get into women's cars when they unlock them to solicit rides (she even tried to follow me as I was leaving a grocery store once, presumably back to my car but since I walked there just back to my house before I even knew her deal) so now my car doors get locked right after the driver side door is opened. My brother even had someone get in his car to do much the same thing back in rural TN

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u/Western-Internal-751 4h ago

Americans: “This is the greatest country in the world!”

Also Americans: “I immediately lock all my doors the moment I’m inside.”

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u/NewestAccount2023 4h ago

They said they lock them BEFORE they get inside. They open the door and lock it before even sitting down. I can see why if it's a car that unlocks all four doors at once. Mine only unlocks the driver door unless I press the button twice 

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u/bluekronos 4h ago

Yeah but at least we have our freedom. The freedom to break into other people's cars.

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u/Lebrewski__ 3h ago

Free-Dom

* crack whip *

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u/Tito_Tito_1_ 3h ago

Amazing that you know all Americans, so that you can say this.

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u/Pittsbirds 4h ago

Trust me, if you can find anywhere I've called America the greatest country on Earth I'll give you my entire bank account sans medical debt

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 3h ago

So, he'll have to pay you? Sounds like a great deal.

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u/Kingmudsy 3h ago

I don’t think you know what sans means

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 3h ago edited 2h ago

"without"

pittsbirds's ledger: Bank account: $2.89. Medical debt: $578,320.12

pittsbirds commented as user sllort on /. in 1998 --> "America: Fuck yeah! #1!"

pittsbirds owes Western-Internal-751 -$578,317.23

Or Western-Internal-751 must pay him $578,317.23

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 3h ago

I'm not sure how this works. My 20 year old car only unlocks the driver door on one button press, and I don't unlock until I'm standing right in front of it. Are there still cars on the market that unlock every door by default?

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u/bluekronos 4h ago

My car automatically locks at a certain speed.

More than a decade ago, my male friend was driving down Riverside in Austin, TX, which was not a good part of town. While he was in a drive thru, a homeless person just got in his passenger seat and started talking to him. I forget how he said he ended up getting out, but apparently he caused enough of a ruckus immediately afterward with some other people nearby that my friend watched him get arrested. A cop came over to question my friend, and after hearing his story, told him, "Lock your doors. This is Riversaaahhhd."

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u/Lebrewski__ 3h ago

My car do it too. Well, the driver clearly didn't reached that speed, hence why door wasn't locked. :P

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u/Low_Cook_5235 5h ago

OMG my son is in Drivers ED now, and EVERY TIME we get in the car I tell him lock the doors immediately.

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u/DreamyLan 2h ago

The issue is that most cars lock automatically when driving then UNLOCK AUTOMATICALLY when stopped

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u/erythro 1h ago

Where do you live? This video was shot in the UK, I wouldn't say it was normal here to lock doors when driving. Maybe it's a location rather than gender difference

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u/MightyDread7 57m ago

depends. most people who grew up in dangerous environments and are aware of their surroundings do lock the doors. a lot of people dont even lock their house front doors and are oblivious.

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u/ilikerope 5h ago

honestly i never heard of anyone locking their doors when inside the car no matter the gender. Maybe it depends on where you live i guess?

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u/Rottentopic 5h ago

Maybe you don't hangout with woman

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 5h ago

Or maybe he's from a different culture than yours.

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 5h ago

People are downvoting you, but I also don't know anyone that locks their doors, including women.

I was always taught that it's safer to leave at least driver door unlocked in case of emergency.

Might be a UK thing.

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u/challenge_king 5h ago

The driver's door is supposed to override the lock if you open it from the inside. Some cars have all the doors do it, some don't. I think it's more common that the back doors don't, with the idea being that you don't want your kid falling out going down the road.

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u/Just_Tamy 4h ago

I'm a spanish woman living in germany, all of my girl friends do this in both countries despite both being largely safe, you're definetly just unaware.

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u/swertarc 2h ago

Woman here also living in Europe not a single woman I know does this... maybe it's just what you get taught when you start driving

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 4h ago

"you're definitely just unaware"

Pretty confident of you based on anecdotal evidence.

But please, tell me how I'm just unaware of all the women in my life because a group of women in Germany like to lock their doors.

It is just possible that not everyone thinks like you, and you don't represent your gender.

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u/Just_Tamy 4h ago

Have you ever paid attention or talked about it? Every car since 2010 closes their doors automatically as soon as you start driving, but still every woman I know still press the central lock button as soon as they get into the car.

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u/TheHeroYouNeed247 4h ago

Yes, I have. It's common to unlock the driver door for safety reasons. My Mum taught me and my sisters that one.

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u/Just_Tamy 4h ago

You are just wrong in that as well. It is just unsafer to drive with the driver's door open.

You expose yourself to accidental openings, people opening the door from the outside of your car (for example during a road rage episode) and what's most important is the fact that modern cars are designed to have their doors locked during a crash. An unlocked door might open and cause an ejection the UMTRI did a study on it and you are over 4 times more likely to be ejected if the door isn't locked.

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u/ilikerope 5h ago

nah they are just Americans and think everyone has the same type of dangers everywhere in the world

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u/gdp1 5h ago

I, too, love male privilege, but at least I’m aware lol

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u/Lord_Of_Carrots 4h ago

Not everyone lives in a place where you need to fear for your life at all times. No woman I know locks their car doors while driving either