November 19, 2025 • 9 mins
Emily shares her frustration with drivers when they do not pull all the way forward at a stop light. Meanwhile, Sky purposely does this to avoid witnessing anything she doesn't want to be involved in.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I am fascinated to hear what this is all about.
Emily has come in and said she has noticed something
that is really bothering her when she is driving. Is
this something that is new, like something new you've noticed, or.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's not something new, but it's something that I feel
like has ramped up, or maybe I'm just noticing it more.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm not sure, but I've noticed this over the last
year or two.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay, listen, this could be a variety of things. Emily's
a little bit of an aggressive driver, and so I
don't know what exactly ver efficient driver, efficient, a little psychotic.
So yes, she says she's noticed this one particular thing
and it's really bothering her and wants to know if
it bothers us. What are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I, like you.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Said, I've been noticing it, and I don't know if
this is just happening to me, if this is a me.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thing, which I don't think it is.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When you're driving on the street and it's a street
that has, you know, different stops, and let's say there's
two lanes on the right side and two lanes on
the other side on a typical street, right and when
you're driving and I'm coming to a light that's turned red,
and I am the first car that's going to be
stopping at the stop light. Right, I go approach the
(01:16):
you know it's turning yellow. I'm slowing down. I'm approaching
the red light, and I stop and I stop.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
That how it works sometimes not accurate.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And I stop obviously a couple of feet in front
of the crosswalk line. So I'm not I'm you know,
butted up as far up as I can get to
where Basically, if you were taking a driving test and
they were doing a diagram of where to stop at
a stop light, that's where I'm st perfect journey. But
I mean, you don't stop a car's length behind it.
You stop right up to the nose. And that's what
you do. Yes, And I've noticed that when the car
(01:52):
in the lane next to me is also the first
car coming up, say they were like behind me, I
don't know, twenty feet right you distance behind me?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They pull up to the stop.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Light, but they don't in the lane next to me,
but they don't pull up all the way so that
we're completely parallel towards each other, because they should be
stopping where you're supposed to stop, which is right up
to the.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Front, because we heard you're the best driver ever.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And I mean, I mean I never said I was
the best driver. I was trying to describe it to
our listeners about where you would.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Stop you're taking a test. Nailed it, Well, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where you would stop. They wouldn't tell you to stop
ten feet back.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So what I get I've noticed is that if I'm
there first and they're coming to a stop at the
red light, they don't stop next to like window to
window to my car. But I mean has nothing to
do with me. It's just stopping in the proper spot.
They're backed up, you know, let's say four or five
feet like a car length, like half a car.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Length, so that what is that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Is that so that they're avoiding being next to another car?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I'm this is so? This is That's all. That's my observation.
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
If this happens to you all the time of the time.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, I I I'm confused by your being like I
do this. I'm this so I know, I don't know
why you're like weird it out?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Why why are you always done this?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You have?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, Like I don't I don't know why But if
if I'm coming up to a red light and there's
already a car there and I'm going to be next
to it on either side, I will never be like
face to face.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So face to face, you're next, you're next to each other.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You're never going to be cheek to cheek, okay, because
I don't need that smoke.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I don't need that in my life. I don't want
to look over.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You don't want to make eye contact. I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Don't Why are you looking at that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't want anything that's going on in your car.
I don't want you involved in what's going on in
my car. I don't want eye contact. I don't want
to smile. I've seen some weird stuff. So weird stuff, yeah,
Like I don't know if this is because of so
one time I was downtown and it was like later
at night. I was like leaving an event, and I
(04:06):
looked over and two people were They were like a couple,
and they were fistfighting, like she was in the passenger
seat and he was in the driver's seat, and they
were literally throwing blows and like pulling hair.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And then there was such.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A wild example.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And then coming in in the morning, I drive through
PB and there's been a few times where I'm the
first one and somebody pulls up even to me, and
they're like they're like wanted to like talk and interact,
and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, you're mentioning things at either super early in the
morning or super late at night in the dark. What
about during the daytime, like leaving work? You do that?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Ye, yes, because it's now just how I operate.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's just smoke.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I don't need that smoke.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't want it to be evolved in your DV incident.
I don't want to give the cops a statement like
I'm no party, I'm no part of whatever's going on
on in your car. I don't want to see you
cracking a beer. And then me be nervous because you
then are driving behind me and I think you're gonna
ram into the back of my car.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Why are you looking at them in the first I
honestly thought, I know what you're talking about, okay, And
I would have just assumed we're at a place in
society where people don't want to interact face to face.
It is a natural reaction to kind of just turn
your head, yeah, to see who's driving. And if you
make eye contact, now am I am I supposed to wave?
(05:31):
I'm supposed to smile. It is a weird interaction. I'm
assuming that's why people don't do it. I don't think
what Sky is saying is normal in the least, this
whole DV incident and cracking beers, and that this is
all very bizarre. Sky thoughts. So let's let's take Sky
out of this conversation, because she's very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard, agreed,
Because you could see a DV.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Situation on the street next to you at a time.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I don't want to see it anywhere. I don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Obviously, nobody does. I don't want to see that I
don't want to see. So that's what I've always assumed
that it is. It's just people don't want If I
go window to window and I glance over and we
make eye contact, immediately, there is an awkwardness there, and
I just don't think people want it. That's my assumption.
(06:24):
What I do is almost the complete opposite of what
Emily is describing. If the person has arrived before me,
I'm the alpha. I am pulling up a little bit
further up in the middle of the crosswalk. Now, yeah,
it depends if they're if they're butted up perfectly like you. Year. No,
(06:48):
I'm not going to go into the crosswalk, but I
am the guy who will go a little bit further
up because I'm going.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
To try and beat him off the line. Are we
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You ain't getting in front of me what I'm in
front of you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I'm just going to target.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I'm go, hey, don't look over here, because I might
be cracking a beer open.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Okay, I'm not racing forget.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Really really conte what happens.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't want to make eye contact, and I don't
want to race.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If they dropped the flag, I'm gone.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
That happened to me once too.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Somebody dropped the flag. You race for Pinks pulled up.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
To some other guy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
He was in the exact same car as me, a
Subaru cross track hybrid plug Yeah, and he rolls out
his window and he's laughing. He goes we racing, and
and I look at him and I go nor windows.
My window was down as like a summer day and
I'm like no, and then he like peeled off the line.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You didn't like laugh at him or anything.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't want the smoke, bro, I'm not racing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Like this is Paula abdul Rush rush video.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
What a reference?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That is a solid reference?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Now like now any of that je I kind of
get off on on, like pulling up right next to you.
You don't look now.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I'm going to hear that And are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, not at all. But I want to make like
now I.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Want to make it uncomfortab after hearing this.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Like this is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We stand next to each other and lines at the store,
like we're always around other people.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So if you're if side by side, is weird.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If it's me and you and I pulled just in
front of you, are you inching up to let's go.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And we're pretty soon me and you, we're in.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The middle of there, in the middle of the street.
Give it up. You know who's not who's way in
the back listen? So yeah, I just think it's a
(08:45):
weird societal thing. It's crazy that if people don't want
to interact. Yeah, you know, people are weird. Now we
only like being online and so face to face interaction
is weird. I think that's what it is, honestly, but
I'm not sure. You know, just skuys out there, A
bunch of weirdos out there, Okay,
I am fascinated to hear what this is all about.
Emily has come in and said she has noticed something
that is really bothering her when she is driving. Is
this something that is new, like something new you've noticed, or.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
It's not something new, but it's something that I feel
like has ramped up, or maybe I'm just noticing it more.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
I'm not sure, but I've noticed this over the last
year or two.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Okay, listen, this could be a variety of things. Emily's
a little bit of an aggressive driver, and so I
don't know what exactly ver efficient driver, efficient, a little psychotic.
So yes, she says she's noticed this one particular thing
and it's really bothering her and wants to know if
it bothers us. What are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Yeah, I, like you.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Said, I've been noticing it, and I don't know if
this is just happening to me, if this is a me.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Thing, which I don't think it is.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
When you're driving on the street and it's a street
that has, you know, different stops, and let's say there's
two lanes on the right side and two lanes on
the other side on a typical street, right and when
you're driving and I'm coming to a light that's turned red,
and I am the first car that's going to be
stopping at the stop light. Right, I go approach the
(01:16):
you know it's turning yellow. I'm slowing down. I'm approaching
the red light, and I stop and I stop.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
That how it works sometimes not accurate.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And I stop obviously a couple of feet in front
of the crosswalk line. So I'm not I'm you know,
butted up as far up as I can get to
where Basically, if you were taking a driving test and
they were doing a diagram of where to stop at
a stop light, that's where I'm st perfect journey. But
I mean, you don't stop a car's length behind it.
You stop right up to the nose. And that's what
you do. Yes, And I've noticed that when the car
(01:52):
in the lane next to me is also the first
car coming up, say they were like behind me, I
don't know, twenty feet right you distance behind me?
Speaker 3 (02:02):
They pull up to the stop.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
Light, but they don't in the lane next to me,
but they don't pull up all the way so that
we're completely parallel towards each other, because they should be
stopping where you're supposed to stop, which is right up
to the.
Speaker 5 (02:16):
Front, because we heard you're the best driver ever.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
And I mean, I mean I never said I was
the best driver. I was trying to describe it to
our listeners about where you would.
Speaker 5 (02:23):
Stop you're taking a test. Nailed it, Well, that's.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Where you would stop. They wouldn't tell you to stop
ten feet back.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
So what I get I've noticed is that if I'm
there first and they're coming to a stop at the
red light, they don't stop next to like window to
window to my car. But I mean has nothing to
do with me. It's just stopping in the proper spot.
They're backed up, you know, let's say four or five
feet like a car length, like half a car.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Length, so that what is that?
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Is that so that they're avoiding being next to another car?
Speaker 3 (02:56):
I'm this is so? This is That's all. That's my observation.
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
If this happens to you all the time of the time.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Well, I I I'm confused by your being like I
do this. I'm this so I know, I don't know
why you're like weird it out?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Why why are you always done this?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
You have?
Speaker 4 (03:15):
Yeah, Like I don't I don't know why But if
if I'm coming up to a red light and there's
already a car there and I'm going to be next
to it on either side, I will never be like
face to face.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
So face to face, you're next, you're next to each other.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
You're never going to be cheek to cheek, okay, because
I don't need that smoke.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I don't.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I don't need that in my life. I don't want
to look over.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
You don't want to make eye contact. I don't need to.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Don't Why are you looking at that.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
I don't want anything that's going on in your car.
I don't want you involved in what's going on in
my car. I don't want eye contact. I don't want
to smile. I've seen some weird stuff. So weird stuff, yeah,
Like I don't know if this is because of so
one time I was downtown and it was like later
at night. I was like leaving an event, and I
(04:06):
looked over and two people were They were like a couple,
and they were fistfighting, like she was in the passenger
seat and he was in the driver's seat, and they
were literally throwing blows and like pulling hair.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Happens all the time.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
And then there was such.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
A wild example.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
And then coming in in the morning, I drive through
PB and there's been a few times where I'm the
first one and somebody pulls up even to me, and
they're like they're like wanted to like talk and interact,
and I'm like, okay.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, you're mentioning things at either super early in the
morning or super late at night in the dark. What
about during the daytime, like leaving work? You do that?
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Ye, yes, because it's now just how I operate.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's just smoke.
Speaker 5 (04:49):
I don't need that smoke.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
I don't want it to be evolved in your DV incident.
I don't want to give the cops a statement like
I'm no party, I'm no part of whatever's going on
on in your car. I don't want to see you
cracking a beer. And then me be nervous because you
then are driving behind me and I think you're gonna
ram into the back of my car.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
Why are you looking at them in the first I
honestly thought, I know what you're talking about, okay, And
I would have just assumed we're at a place in
society where people don't want to interact face to face.
It is a natural reaction to kind of just turn
your head, yeah, to see who's driving. And if you
make eye contact, now am I am I supposed to wave?
(05:31):
I'm supposed to smile. It is a weird interaction. I'm
assuming that's why people don't do it. I don't think
what Sky is saying is normal in the least, this
whole DV incident and cracking beers, and that this is
all very bizarre. Sky thoughts. So let's let's take Sky
out of this conversation, because she's very bizarre.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
That's one of the craziest things I've ever heard, agreed,
Because you could see a DV.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Situation on the street next to you at a time.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
I don't want to see it anywhere. I don't want
to see.
Speaker 1 (06:03):
Obviously, nobody does. I don't want to see that I
don't want to see. So that's what I've always assumed
that it is. It's just people don't want If I
go window to window and I glance over and we
make eye contact, immediately, there is an awkwardness there, and
I just don't think people want it. That's my assumption.
(06:24):
What I do is almost the complete opposite of what
Emily is describing. If the person has arrived before me,
I'm the alpha. I am pulling up a little bit
further up in the middle of the crosswalk. Now, yeah,
it depends if they're if they're butted up perfectly like you. Year. No,
(06:48):
I'm not going to go into the crosswalk, but I
am the guy who will go a little bit further
up because I'm going.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
To try and beat him off the line. Are we
What are we doing?
Speaker 1 (06:57):
You ain't getting in front of me what I'm in
front of you.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
I'm just going to target.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
I'm go, hey, don't look over here, because I might
be cracking a beer open.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Okay, I'm not racing forget.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Really really conte what happens.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
I don't want to make eye contact, and I don't
want to race.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
If they dropped the flag, I'm gone.
Speaker 5 (07:14):
That happened to me once too.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Somebody dropped the flag. You race for Pinks pulled up.
Speaker 5 (07:18):
To some other guy.
Speaker 4 (07:19):
He was in the exact same car as me, a
Subaru cross track hybrid plug Yeah, and he rolls out
his window and he's laughing. He goes we racing, and
and I look at him and I go nor windows.
My window was down as like a summer day and
I'm like no, and then he like peeled off the line.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
You didn't like laugh at him or anything.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
I don't want the smoke, bro, I'm not racing.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Like this is Paula abdul Rush rush video.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
What a reference?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
That is a solid reference?
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Wow?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Now like now any of that je I kind of
get off on on, like pulling up right next to you.
You don't look now.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
I'm going to hear that And are you staring at me?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
No, not at all. But I want to make like
now I.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Want to make it uncomfortab after hearing this.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Like this is so stupid.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
We stand next to each other and lines at the store,
like we're always around other people.
Speaker 5 (08:12):
So if you're if side by side, is weird.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
If it's me and you and I pulled just in
front of you, are you inching up to let's go.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
And we're pretty soon me and you, we're in.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
The middle of there, in the middle of the street.
Give it up. You know who's not who's way in
the back listen? So yeah, I just think it's a
(08:45):
weird societal thing. It's crazy that if people don't want
to interact. Yeah, you know, people are weird. Now we
only like being online and so face to face interaction
is weird. I think that's what it is, honestly, but
I'm not sure. You know, just skuys out there, A
bunch of weirdos out there, Okay,
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