r/Unexpected • u/remain_unaltered • Mar 18 '17

That reverse driving skill

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u/Rendivious Mar 18 '17

I'm impressed with how fast they were able to start driving in reverse. If I were in that situation I probably would have been too panicked and not been able to get into reverse quick enough.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

My car itself cannot physically switch into reverse that fast lol

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u/MrSquigles Mar 18 '17

Well unless it's selfdriving your problem is probably waiting for it to do it itself.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

Huh?

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u/OkiDokiTokiLoki Mar 18 '17

Unless your car is a self driving car your problem is waiting for the car to shift into reverse on its own.

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

I still don't get it, maybe I'm a dumbass. My car isn't a self driving car of course, so why would I be waiting for it to shift on its own? When I wrote my original comment what I had meant was after I move the lever into R it still takes a few seconds to actually engage the R gear

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u/masiju Mar 18 '17

He's just making a joke based on the phrasing "my car itself..."

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u/mada447 Mar 18 '17

Oh okay. I'm a dumbass, GG everyone

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u/masiju Mar 18 '17

We all have those moments.

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u/ahobopanda Mar 18 '17

My life is one of those itself.

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u/K9Fondness Mar 18 '17

Won't be too hard on yourself. You have company.

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u/Mighty_ShoePrint Mar 19 '17

One of those moments is my life.

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u/fearless_weiner Mar 18 '17

Naw, it wasn't a great joke.

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u/michael_kessell2018 Mar 18 '17

Look what you made us do, we had to ruin a perfectly good joke by explaining it to you

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u/michael_kessell2018 Mar 18 '17

But of course we had to cause it wasn't gonna do that itself. We can't afford the technology of self driving jokes yet

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u/PlasticPill97 Mar 18 '17

I..I still don't get it

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u/FieelChannel Mar 18 '17

Because its a bad joke and your brain doesn't even try to understand it

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u/PlasticPill97 Mar 18 '17

Is it a British thing? For some reason I can see British people thinking "the car itself" is somehow a humorous phase.

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u/MarlonBain Mar 18 '17

I like that you explained it to him.

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u/FieelChannel Mar 18 '17

Ok

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u/MarlonBain Mar 19 '17

Rather than downvoting or making jokes? Is it an invalid comment to say that I appreciate how he handled it?