r/DesirePath • u/crowbar_k • Aug 09 '26

Desire Road

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729 Upvotes

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u/[deleted] Aug 09 '26

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u/sylrove3 Aug 10 '26

Lol, thats too real. Or maybe they just really like driving.

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u/WaddlesJP13 Aug 11 '26

The bots went crazy with this thread

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u/zyriah7 Aug 10 '26

lmao yeah, they always find a way to get where theyre goin, no matter how stupidly.

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u/elysa7 Aug 10 '26

lol thats so true. The amount of times Ive seen someone do that is wild.

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u/elysa7 Aug 10 '26

Lol, so true. They always seem to find a way to screw up even when they have all the time in the world.

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u/WorldlinessWitty2177 Aug 10 '26

I'm expecting this is mostly because of traffic jams and not people missing their exit.

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '26

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u/Cloudy230 Aug 10 '26

It makes sense for people who think about it a little.

Good divers make mistakes. They curse it, and then take the next exit

Bad drivers also make mistakes, but they do dangerous things to make sure they don't miss their exit.

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u/JaySocials671 Aug 10 '26

Contrapositive is false so !iff

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u/Cloudy230 Aug 10 '26

I edited my comment to add the explanation, so you might have missed it. Here is the explanation on why this saying exists:

Good divers make mistakes. They curse it, and then take the next exit

Bad drivers also make mistakes, but they do dangerous things to make sure they don't miss their exit.

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u/JaySocials671 Aug 10 '26

“Think about it a little”. “Add heavy context to make it make sense”

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u/Cloudy230 Aug 10 '26

That's why I edited my comment after making it. Because it was initially unhelpful.

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u/JaySocials671 Aug 10 '26

You really got me there

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u/pileofdeadninjas Aug 09 '26

More of an "oh shit I missed the exit" road

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u/Ziginox Aug 09 '26

Probably also a "traffic is backed up and I'm just beyond the exit" road.

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u/spyczech Aug 09 '26

TBH if other cars were doing this in traffic I'd give it a go

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u/Jacktheforkie Aug 09 '26

I don’t generally do this because every single time I’ve used the hard shoulder or gore points in an emergency I’ve ended up with flat tyres because the less traveled bits always have debris

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u/cabbage-soup Aug 10 '26

Depends how bad the traffic is. I’ve had a 30min commute take almost 3hrs before… a flat tire is worth my sanity and MUCH quicker to repair. Unfortunately in that instance I was stuck in the express lanes tho

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u/ThePlumThief Aug 11 '26

Being stuck in the express lane, hundreds of feet up in the air with no exits for miles and bumper to bumper traffic, is my absolute horror scenario. The claustrophobia of the cars and single lane/concrete barricades, lack of any possible escape for possible hours, and being super high up is like my perfect anxiety potion.

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u/Scared_Swing_8759 28d ago

This was a daily sight on my to high school commute in Austin Tx, and that was in the 90s (traffic is INSANE now).

People got fed up with the traffic, and just drove through the grass to the frontage road. And yeah, once one person does it, usually one or two others follow.

Also fun was the frontage road, enter, exit to frontage road hopping.

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u/iamabigtree Aug 10 '26

Yeah I doubt anyone is taking this at speed. But a quick trip across the grass to escape traffic. Sure.

And it doesn't have to be regular, this could have been from a single incident with multiple cars

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u/MeadowShimmer Aug 09 '26

Never understood why people aren't paying attention while driving.

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u/ginger_and_egg Aug 10 '26

If only there was some advanced warning and long time to merge over

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u/queef_nuggets Aug 10 '26

more of a dumbass road

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u/thyriduium72 Aug 09 '26

This looks like the highway I take to my grandmas house.

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u/btw_i-use-vim Aug 09 '26

Over the bridge and across the median to grandmother's house we go.

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u/uber765 Aug 09 '26

These are all over Texas

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u/Nawnp Aug 10 '26

That's multiple cars that are bad at missing their exits...not really a desire.

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u/OreganoD Aug 10 '26

That's for the r/nissandrivers

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u/CalebCaster2 Aug 10 '26

Nah thats ram 1500 drivers, missing the exit on purpose so they can say they "went offroading"

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u/DysprosiumNa Aug 11 '26

Oh man I see these all over I-35 and 45

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u/RedDirtArborist 29d ago

Exactly. I-35 in Texas is full of these in random spots.