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    Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.

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    Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we’re actually pretty good drivers

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    Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It’s the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don’t know to drive.

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    Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.

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    “If you don’t like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes”

    I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it’s a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it’s unique to where they live

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      A couple years ago I was back in Florida visiting my parents and I forgot how weird shit was there sometimes. About 75+ degrees outside and out of nowhere sudden hail/downpour. Hail of all different sized, one piece was like half a soft ball. Went on for maybe 60 seconds. Was long enough for me to open the door, acknowledge I could no longer see shit, and then pick up that giant piece of ice and the storm cloud passed. A bit over 2-3" of rain I emptied out of the rain gauge.

      Everywhere has weird weather moments, but that one will always stand out to me.

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      In monsoon season it’s absolutely ‘the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away’

      But they would be correct about having the worst drivers

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    SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona’s drivers are much worse.

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      I was going to say everywhere but San Diego. I would describe the weather there as room temperature.

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        Speak for yourself. Love and miss that cooler, predictable weather. Sick of this shit where I send my kids to school in 30 degree weather and pick them up in 70-80 degree weather. ALSO…IT. FUCKEN. WIMDY. And to top it off stank ass Bradford pears spaffing into the breeze through spring and summer. Oh and lots of tornados every year. Oklahoma weather is bullshit.

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          I actually moved here from Tulsa so I know very well what you mean lol. Left Tulsa 2 years ago after 15 years. I miss the thunderstorms but literally nothing else lol.

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      A buddy of mine helped his sister move from AZ to Socal, he comes from a family of city-planner types, so he’s constantly going on about roadway designs. He told me that while my area has better constructed roads, and our drivers are terrible, that Socal had worse roads, but great drivers (road discipline wise, at least). Probably sample bias but neat trivia.

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      Missouri here. Most of this area is valid in making the weather statement. Because we’re right where weather fronts like to meet up at to fight, we will literally get times when the high is 35f one day and then 70f the next. I think last year we had a day that went from 78f to 19f over the course of like half a day.

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      Washington has the worst drivers on the west coast.

      Oregon has the best.

      CA and AZ are both pretty average.

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      “SoCal weather is so bipolar like one moment it could be hot and sunny and 10 minute drive later it could be cold and cloudy” /s

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    Per my experience, Oklahoma has the dumbest drivers, Texas and California are tied for the most aggressive drivers (but simultaneously skilled just enough to not cause mass genocide), and Virginia has the worst road layout.

    There’s a lot of different flavors of shit.

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      I used to be a trucker. Drive everything east of the Mississippi.

      Indiana has the dumbest drivers. Never have I been to a state with a lower average i.q. Idk, it might be an environmental thing, like in the water, or too many generations of cousin fucking. But something ain’t right there. They make poor choices and have a lack of self preservation.

      New england the rudest, but they’re at least predictable. When they do something rude and reckless its always in pursuit of a goal. E.g. making the next exit, turn, lane ect.

      The south has the most lackadaisical drivers. They just don’t give a fuck. They’re doing what they’re doing and that’s that.

      The Midwest has the nicest most considerate drivers, and as a result traffic jams are far fewer, everything just flows smoother.

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      There’s a big difference between drivers who only drive in rural areas and drivers who drive in crowded rush hour traffic in big cities. And, different big cities have their own challenges. As a visitor, trying to navigate LA’s freeway hell was awful, and the drivers who were used to it were not at all accommodating. But, I think LA drivers would find driving in Boston and its Masshole drivers to be hell, because it’s all about squeezing down narrow streets that come from a time before automobiles.

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      California I believe has the statistically worst drivers. New York id say has the most insane but skillful enough to somehow not die drivers.

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          I find that ironic because Massachusetts drivers and New Jersey drives are the worst drivers I’ve ever seen. On the East Coast, it’s almost guaranteed that the car overtaking you doing 30 over the speed limit is going to be from one of those two states.

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          Never been to the east coast (that’s a goal for sure though), but I totally get that. It’s why I like driving the areas surrounding LA. People are more decisive while driving than other states up the coast. The California driver is more likely to be an asshole, yes, but one who knows what’s happening around them, makes a decision, and stick to it. My home state drives (ha) me insane with the amount of people who just seem totally checked out, either fiddling around on a cell phone or some other bullshit that shouldn’t be done while driving.

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      Went to Texas once. Made it to Paris, was there for a couple minutes, decided to leave after almost being involved in a fatal car crash right in front of me

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    No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.

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    Nah, when I say this I’m referring to when my temperature goes from (in fahrenheit) -5, to almost 50, to 10 degrees in only 4 days. Got rain one day and snow the next.

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      I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.

      They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.

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          Sorry I thought it was obvious if you think about it.

          It was dollar tree. I worked the transition from family dollar-dollar tree- dollar tree plus.

          What I can say good about dollar tree is I went from part time cashier on Christmas for extra money to running stores in 6 months. I opened 7 stores, lead the stocking teams, helped out at dozens of stores and was “person you call” when you don’t know who to call. DMs called me. On the other hand i had a mental breakdown (litterly I was hospitalized for close to a month then I moved home with my mother that’s how damaging the work was under that one specific district manager) so dollar tree is a great place to move up but it’s like… Harvey Weinstein…. Yeah he can make you a star but at a cost.

          Lol sorry I have ptsd lol

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            In more ways than people realize. I’ve got so many heartbreaking stories.

            My record for most drugs found in the bathroom was six baggies of crystal. One of my jobs as GM+ was “he’s been in the bathroom for a really long time… and there’s no noise in there”

            “Alright I get the narcan from my car (we weren’t allowed to keep it in the building but sometimes you need narcan)”

            Another horrible story is the time I spent all day stomping on baby Jesus. Products have to be destroyed so not peasants can take them out of the trash. Surprisingly a lot of people didn’t want to stomp on Jesus Christmas ornaments. So I went around to all the store to stomp on Jesus for them.

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              I figure if some place is selling Jesus merch to amass wealth, it’s not intended as a holy item and shouldn’t be treated as one. Stomp away. Lol

              That said though, the company demanding damaging product before chucking it is just shit tier behavior.

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            Actually the worst part of all is people died at stores. Nothing that was our fault but yeah, I saw people die and didn’t even list that as one of the “sad things” it was just a tuesday

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        Sure, but I was talking about general complaints. Things like, “the drivers here are so bad”, “the winters are too cold and the summers are too hot”, “the government sure is poorly run”, “the yellow sports car parked out in front of the fast food place I work looks so stupid”, “I hate my boss and his stupid name, like seriously, who is named Methuselah Honeysuckle”, and “If they don’t give me a raise this time, I’m going to start a union, I’m serious, working a Chipotle sucks”.

        You know, the kind of stuff that could never be traced back to me.

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          I totally get that and thought about it. People reading it might think differently and I wanted to warn them. Not specifically you.

          Funny story though: my ex wife lived in the same small town as me and she told me “you’re employees were talking shit about you”

          “Well yeah… I’m the boss. We all talk shit about our bosses “

          “Do you want to know what they said “

          “Nope.‘if it’s important they’ll talk me directly “