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Sitting in cars as a pasttime
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I'll sit in my car for 5 to ten minutes after a hard, stressful day at work to decompress in silence before entering home, but that's mostly because I want to be joyous and loving to my boyfriend who's waiting for me instead of cranky, not because I enjoy car.
Do people really chill in their cars for an hour? That seems wild.
I live in a small maritime town and ya people do that. They bring their car to the parking lot and line up and just sit there. Sometimes they talk to the people next to them or a friend.
Okay yanno I see that at the park and by the lake. Folks park, go for a walk, then hang out in the car and chat or nap.
I'm guessing they're doing that since it's a free place to be and the car offers some privacy. That makes a bit more sense to me than sitting in your own driveway for an hour.
I was reading, thinking "this is definitely New Brunswick" before recognizing your username :P
I'm originally from Bathurst, hotboxing a Honda Civic in the McDonald's parking lot was essentially a rite of passage.
Sidenote: the culture of driving stoned and/or drunk is so crazy prevalent around here. I was pretty reckless as a teenager, thankfully I now know better but a lot of people I knew back then never grew out of it.
Ayyy recognize ya too! Haha it’s wild the culture here for that. I’m originally from Ontario so this whole thing was new to me
Where I live I see multiple people who will sit in their cars for multiple hours, I was just being generous with the "one hour." Lol
Ive been doing yard work for probably about 2, and there's a dude whose just been sitting there the whole time in his driveway, which prompted the post. I see it often enough to call it a thing though, definitely. I go for a walk most days and sometimes I'll just double back, and see someone still in their car 30-45 minutes later.
To be clear, I totally get taking a few when you get home or something. Really wouldn't bat an eye at 15 minutes regardless. An hour or more though, yeah sorry thats weird and no amount of normalization is going to change my mind. I'm so tired of people trying to tell me people aren't fucking weird about their cars 🤣