it's only after a video just casually mentioning it, that i realized that people who drive, basically experience driving in traffic as "looking at rain and brake lights" and not as "gonna be late which sucks but at least i can look around at stuff"
because
when you're driving
you need to look ahead
🤯🤯🤯
mind blown
good thing i never got my license
that new alvvays song with the line that goes "the pulse of the brake lights is the color of burning embers" ? probably doesn't refer to a momentary thing like i sort-of-assumed; instead it probably refers to WHAT DRIVING IN TERRIBLE TRAFFIC FOR HOURS is like
also, reading while on the way somewhere? texting while on the way somewhere? watching youtube while on the way somewhere? writing posts with grave realizations about the experience of driving,,, while on the way somewhere? none of those are legal (or safe) to do while DRIVING; but i COULD (and did!) write most of this very thread while on the bus! wouldn't have been possible if i'd have chosen (and, uh,,, also been able to have chosen) to drive
car crash mention?
(ok so after checking the comments on genius (of course) and rereading the lyrics, it's probably not actually about driving in traffic, but about a crash
but still, an important realization for me to have, and most likely an association that i'm expected to have for that line as a listener, regardless of any concrete events being described)
｜霜の狼｜人面獣心」🐺❄️
@wolfgang yeah, we grew up in a place with literally NO public transit
you have a car or you die
and uh, this right here? is why we can't drive. We zone out, and miss stuff... like stop signs.
We were seriously wondering how we were going to survive.
Then we moved to the other side of the continent to escape our parents, and landed in one of the very few places in the whole country with decent public transit. It is literally life-changing.
@wolfgang I've been feeling this so much just being back in places I used to drive through, but on foot. suddenly there's so much detail that was invisible to me before. it's hard to look around when a moment's distraction can have such big consequences
@else it always used to amaze me how little drivers notice about places they go through every day; but i think i finally get it
you know those views from the bridges over the highway, with the white lights in the one direction and the red lights in the other?
well when you drive at night then the second one is apparently YOUR ENTIRE VISUAL EXPERIENCE for the ENTIRE DRIVE
i would have literally exploded after the first time taking the car to tel aviv. rip wolfe z"l