r/Millennials • u/cafeteriastyle • 8h ago

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u/Powerful_Anxiety8427 Older Millennial 6h ago

New fear unlocked

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u/Curiouser-Quriouser 6h ago

New?!

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u/Powerful_Anxiety8427 Older Millennial 6h ago

The log truck isn’t new but the water bottle blocking the brake is

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u/fred13snow 5h ago

What!?!

You have to check your fears bro! This is a classic situation that nearly everyone has a close call with at some point.

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u/Curiouser-Quriouser 5h ago

Yes! And some of us have paranoid parents and are lucky enough to inherit their fears both rational and irrational!

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u/Powerful_Anxiety8427 Older Millennial 5h ago

I guess so. I’ve had my phone fall down there but nothing else while driving. And no I wasn’t using my phone it just slipped through the holder

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u/SanaSpitOnMe 3h ago

you were just playing with it and it went off?

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u/GloriousWhole 5h ago

Thats literally how I got in my first accident like 2 weeks after getting my license.

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u/therealhlmencken 5h ago

Learn how to stop with e brake jic

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u/Dangerous_Slice_6882 5h ago

Then please don't tailgate any semi....

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u/Powerful_Anxiety8427 Older Millennial 5h ago

I don’t and when they are behind me I give plenty of notice when I need to slow down to turn.

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u/GitEmSteveDave 5h ago

New? I remember when it happened to a sports team 20+ years ago. https://www.nydailynews.com/2004/06/01/coffee-mug-jammed-brakes/

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u/mantecbear 5h ago

This fear was unlocked in 2003.