I can’t even entertain this premise. There’s no way neither of them has a preference…
Maybe they just have 2 of the same cars lol
Personally, I’d still have a favorite…
I have a hard time accepting that everyone should have their own vehicle in the first place.
This entire post will age poorly if we ever transition out of this incredibly self-indulgent and wasteful period of human civilization.
We should have walkable neighborhoods, mass transit of gleaming efficiency, bike lanes as priority, we should be encouraging socializing and creating spaces for people to gather that aren’t profit-driven, but with plans to create comfort and recreation to better the people and foster a sense of belonging to a community. It’s absurd we all live in places with lots of people but have no sense of belonging to a community. This goes against literally millions of years of our own evolutionary history. We NEED community to function and have healthy minds.
I mean, it’s not likely to happen. But maybe when the next great apocalyptic event happens the survivors can try to remake things with a little more planning. After the whole period of darkness and cannibalism of course.
We should have walkable neighborhoods, mass transit of gleaming efficiency, bike lanes as priority, we should be encouraging socializing and creating spaces for people to gather that aren’t profit-driven, but with plans to create comfort and recreation to better the people and foster a sense of belonging to a community.
Not everyone wants to be packed like sardines. That’s the beauty of individualism. You might think this sounds like some sort of utopia, but to me this sounds like hell.
The suburban hellscape that is most residential coded zones is far, far more sardine-like than what I’m describing, which is an environment far more like many cities in Europe that evolved to be, and have been maintained as walkable cities. The reason you’re repulsed by the idea of urban environments is specifically because you’re used to American residential areas that are hard, brutal and packed next to busy highways and multi-lane avenues that are constantly packed with people trying to get to and from work, with huge parking lots that act like hot deserts in the sun, with sprawl and noise and pollution and no good reason to leave your sardine can because there’s nowhere to get to within 30 minutes of walking except more sardine cans.
If a neighborhood is designed to be walkable, you will have condos and apartments and medium to high-density living spaces, sure, but you will have an entirely different aesthetic and atmosphere around it so it feels more welcoming, and encourages community.
If you’re opposed to community entirely, that’s your prerogative, there are still vast, vast tracts of land across the world you can live in and be left alone, and that’s fine. My comment isn’t addressing that lifestyle, because for MOST people, cities represent opportunity, safety and essential services. We can’t look down at the vast bulk of humanity who want to live around other people just because you yourself are bothered by your own memories and experiences of city life.
I ride my bike and my partner theirs, we aren’t savages.
Commendable. But many of us live where cars are the only practical way to get around. My wife and I both drive 30 minutes to get to work.
Oh boy. Fuck Cars is not going to be happy…
30 mins by car is 35-40 mins by bike where I live, because bikes aren’t affected by traffic.
Roads are 55mph here, seldom any traffic, so it’s more like 2 hours by bike. For us anyway.
Do you each randomly choose a bike every morning? That is really the point here.
No we don’t because we are not savages :)
My wife and I share the cars like this. Is it so weird? We usually select the best car for the job at hand.
What if it was a daily commute for both you and your wife? Would you play eeny miny moe with the cars every morning?
Good point. She commutes a few days per week, but I’m 100/% work from home. Can’t say I miss commuting.
Commutting 40min+ each way every day, I envy.
Yea, why is this such a surprise. Especially with kids or groceries. Different trips require different transportation needs.
Same. And the best car at hand is the EV one, 100pct of the time. Whoever goes out takes that car. In the off chance the second person need to go out at the same time, they take the older crappy car.
Best for the job, sure, but not randomly.
Wow what a couple of freaks. I bet they probably even sleep in the same bed. Who tf does stuff like that. This is the biggest scandal that has ever been posted on lemmy.
Yeah, but they almost certainly have their own “side” of the bed. What kind of monsters wouldn’t?
This is an excellent follow up question to OP
I also want to hear about psychopaths that grab the nearest side and conk out. Or, hell, sleep crossways idk. This is some real chaotic neutral shit.
They’re probably some generational rich that randomly choose a bedroom to sleep in at night or something
this should break the whole internet anytime now
You guys usually have two cars?
How else are you supposed to get to work? The bus takes 2 and a half hours and you will get there late and have to leave early. God I wish the bus was viable.
Where I live that’s not even the problem any more, and not because it was fixed either. You have to leave early regardless to have time to get stuck in traffic, find the only parking spot js far away, then walk 10 min in the rain.
Unless you have older kids, then more cars. It’s cars all the way down.
I know right? imagine having even one car…
My parents have “the new minivan” and “the old minivan,” I guess that’s what happens when you adopt four kids and two dogs.
We have two cars and they are both kinda mine. He bike commutes and way prefers it. I work two hours away though and have always driven more. So generally I take the van if I’m going to be at work for a few days, I’ve got it camperized, or the bmw if it’s a there and back, or other trips like that. Since I’m gone for a few days at a time he still needs a car for some errands, otherwise we’d just have the van. I do all the organizing for service work and cleaning, and general car stuff as well.
My dad worked nights and Mom was a SAHM who also did some freelance stuff from home. They basically had a first come/first served system, and honestly didn’t have many conflicts so the second car (usually the one they’ve had longer) was rarely used. That was perfect when I started driving in high school, because I could usually use that car (even if it was a few years older than I was)
My brother talked them into buying a used Mitsubishi Eclipse back when it was still kinda cool (an '03 model purchased in 2007?). Mom ended up really liking that car and it’s not really practical for the handyman stuff my dad does in his retirement, so now they have assigned cars.
sharing things with your spouse???
Lol, my wife and I happily drive whichever car, unless there’s a specific reason we need to take a specific car. Equally we definitely have cars we think of as “ours”
We share a single car between family members. And we do not live in the same household or even the same cities / towns.
I drive my partners car and my partner drives my partners car because my car is a PoS 2000 Ford Sudan with a frame bent to shit LOL
what the hell is a Ford Sudan
Ford Iraq
Chevy Afghanistan
Toyota Cymru
South Sudan got a corporate sponsor.
you make one tired typo and youre the laughing stock of the lemmyverse 😔
Have you seen the new Dodge Darfur?
She definitely has her car and I have mine. Mine’s over a decade old with over 100k miles, and hers is a year old. I think her car is really neat, but there’s a lot I don’t like about it. Too much tech, too many weird quirks in the systems, and it’s a little compact for my height. I’m glad she likes her car, but we definitely have assigned cars.
ok one or both partners hate cars. Neither can survive without a car if the other one doesn’t have a car. That is a colossal failure, but we’ll move on.
Insurance and ownership papers here generally require a primary owner here, at least on paper
Husband and wife in America can go on a vehicle as far as I know. Hell two unrelated people who both sign on the vehicle own it as far as I know.