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u/Vespine-Rapier 1d ago
I don’t get why he immediately closed it when going to pick up what fell out because he’s just going to have to open it back up to put it all back
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u/SlowCrates 1d ago
It appears to be raining
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u/Aggleclack 1d ago
My trunk can be open without getting soaked. Most cars are designed to reroute water open or closed
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u/SlowCrates 1d ago
That may be true, but if you're stepping out into the rain to get groceries the fell into the intersection you might be in the mind set of not letting things get any worse, without putting much critical thought into it.
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u/DiegesisThesis 1d ago
Does anyone anyone remember that old video of a car crashing and the immediately opens and releases a bunch of balloons like a celebration?
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u/noncongruent 1d ago
Cross traffic doesn't have yield signs, only you and the oncoming car. Why did you push into the intersection and high-beam flash the traffic that had right of way?
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u/IonutzPermit 1d ago
I flashed the guy who had the trunk open for him to stop.
I had yield sign on my side and the other let me get through. It was really bad trafic and it’s something everybody does in that intersection. Something like the zipper manoeuvre.
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u/uhmerikin 1d ago
Dear God this brings back a memory.
Ages ago I recruited a buddy of mine to go to Lowe's to get some mulch for my yard. We got a whole pallet and the employee forklifted it in the back of the truck.
I questioned the Lowe's guy about maybe taking half off the pallet and coming back for the other half later. "Oh no, man! That thing's is wrapped up tighter than hell! You'll be fine!" he says.
Well, sure enough. 6 minutes later and guess who is picking up about 20 bags of mulch scattered across a rather busy intersection near my neighborhood?
Fun times.
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u/curiousmind111 1d ago edited 1d ago
I just did this the other day. D’oh! Had pulled some things from the back, didn’t notice the trunk was still open (yes, it’s possible), got to my third stoplight, and accelerated.
Did not notice what happened, heard beeping behind me but couldn’t figure out why it would apply to me, assumed somebody else was doing something odd.
A car came up to me on the side and at the same time I realized something was in the road way back behind me and I realized it was MY stuff! So as they pulled up (I assumed to tell me what I did), I said “I know! Thanks! I need to turn around!”, rather than listen to them (I was very flustered) and slowed and turned around behind them.
But when I got back there, none of my stuff was there. Not in the road, not out next to the road, nowhere. Now I realize that the other car probably had my stuff, but they didn’t turn and follow me. Probably figured I was too stupid for them to keep helping!
So, keep that in mind if you see that happening. The person may not realize what happened, and it’s hard to know if people are beeping at you when the beeping just comes from somewhere roughly behind you. And we’re all idiots at times. SMH. Wish I could thank that car and find out what happened.
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u/Ok_Nothing_0707 1d ago
that's probably Poland - not so long ago we had a perfect recycling mechanism - mandatory sorting of trash where plastic, cans, bottles etc where thrown into a separate trash bins and everything worked perfectly. now we have a deposit system like in Germany where each bottle, can, and some glass bottles are covered with a "deposit" which you have to return by bringing back those bottles. which turned every Pole into a trash collector. all while keeping the trash segregation mandatory. if the goal is to care about the nature and sort your trash, than why do we need to add a middle man who makes money on this? and the main absurdity is that the trash collector/processing firms are now increasing the price of their services cause they used to collect money from recycling and now it's vastly gone. complete stupidity.
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u/noncongruent 1d ago
Bottle deposit systems work better to keep trash off the streets because it creates a financial incentive for people to collect that trash, or better yet, not toss that trash out their car window in the first place. A recycling program that mandates recycling but does not severely punish littering doesn't give litterers any particular reason not to litter. There are historically only two real things that can change someone's behavior, punishment or reward, and punishment rarely works even as well as reward, and often times is far less successful than reward.
As a perfect example, look at Aldi and they way they handle carts. In the US you need a 25¢ coin to unlock a cart and use it, and that mere coin is sufficient in 99.9% of cases enough to incentivise people to push that cart back to the cart corral at the store. Even in the case of people too lazy to return their cart to get their quarter back other customers will return the cart to get that free coin as a reward.
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u/Ok_Nothing_0707 1d ago
The system does not punish anyone. People still throw away cans and bottles of they want to. All it was made for is to make money for the middle man.
P.s. in Poland most of the supermarkets do not require a coin anymore, yet people still return the carts to where they took them.1
u/noncongruent 1d ago
People still throw away cans and bottles of they want to. All it was made for is to make money for the middle man.
And others collect those cans and bottles because they can turn them in for cash. To me that's win-win.
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u/Lazygit1965 1d ago
I used to drive regularly along a major road towards a common holiday destination and almost weekly id see a destroyed suitcase that had fallen off a car!
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u/cfbrand3rd 2h ago
I haven’t owned a vehicle in over 20 years that wouldn’t nag you to death, with both audible and visual cues, until the offending hatch/gate/lid was secured.
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u/Suaded83 1d ago
I mean to be fair I don’t think they intended not to secure their trunk.
It’s like when I drop my freshly cooked pancake on the floor and someone says “hey your pancake can’t park there”. I know, sir. I know.