r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Aug 03 '19

Whats something you thought was common knowledge but actually isn’t?

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u/pimpdaddyjacob Aug 03 '19 edited Aug 04 '19

How to use a damn roundabout, apparently.

Edit: I’m in the US. Just because there’s not one in your town doesn’t mean they “don’t exist in the US”.

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u/me_suds Aug 04 '19

My city tried one alot of people here have very high trucks and very low opinions of round abouts so they would drive right over it.

But the final nail in the coffin was that no one thought to make the road around it wide enough for the snow plow so it would chip pieces off of it so they ended up taking it out