30 Daily Dangers You Might Not Realize You’re Exposing Yourself To

And stop stepping into the road without looking. The cyclist who can't avoid running into you will probably be more seriously injured than you.

I am always saying this to my kids. I don't like the ear buds. Very dangerous in trafic and you are distracted. You don't hear if someone is walking behind you and you can't hear someone screaming for help.

I walk in the worst neighborhood in Colorado (North Aurora around Colfax and Dayton) with my headphones blaring, but I am an Army Veteran, believe it or not my head is on a swivel. I am paying attention to the world around me. I just did it today to go to the vape shop.

I saw a guy crossing a busy street sloooooowly and stopping traffic both ways because he didn't wanna lift his head from his phone.

What?

Ban greyhound racing!

So is alcohol.

Sports gambling is being advertised online now. Can't believe how it's portrayed as fun and exciting.

My mom has a friend who let her daughter (between 6 to 8, I'm not sure) stare at her phone while on the road. What kind of education (or lack thereof) is that.

Stop using your phone for a clock and maps when you travel in very touristy areas - makes you an easy mark.

Yup. Just a few years after Covid too. Proof that far too many people are too dumb to live.

Glad my mom raised me right to wash my hands all the time.

I swear, my country managed Covid better because you had to disinfect before entering every shop - 11 times per day

Sometimes I am just watching who is not washing their hands. It is disgusting how many don't wash their hands and go afterwards eating in the Ikea restaurant

Bleach isn't nearly as universal a cleaning agent here (Germany) as it seems to be in the US. For professionals - yes. But I think most households do without, though judging from the supermarket shelves it does seem to become more popular. Still: so far the only places that regularly smell of chlorine hereabouts are swimming pools, not bathrooms.

My SIL mixed bleach and vinegar. She was lucky, it was just a smal amount but she was very sick that day.

Don't eat while watching the news on tv.

@keyboardtek - there are worse ways to go.

This is why I hate when people let little kids eat without sitting down. Walking around, eating (or drinking!) is bad enough when adults do it!

There must be a better way

Well, see, I'm late for X because it was more important to me to have that final cigarette even though I knew I was late...

Yeah just because life is a chaotic mess sometimes don't ride everyone's a*s. Be patient whether or not you are upset or late.

I didn't invite you to drive from the back seat of my car so why do you feel it necessary to rush me along? I really want a sign that lights up when people do this. The sign is "I break check for tailgaters"

Or tried drivers. They're almost as incapacitated as drunk drivers

It's not me with the driving problem! It's all these jerks on the road!!

One should be relaxed and alert.

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Princess Diana comes to mind.

My nephew was riding with a friend in wet conditions when they skidded off the road on a curve. Friend walked away with a sprained elbow; my nephew was ejected from the vehicle. and died on impact.

AFAIK quite a lot of people díe in bed, often even in their own bed. Dámned if you do, dámned if you don't kinda situation.

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Okay, I stay in bed with my wonderful pillow.

Driving in general. I'm sure it's partly due to the fact that I'm getting older, but people seem to have become exponentially more selfish behind the wheel. A near total inability to recognize that we're all going to (roughly) the same place.

People seem to not care what color the lights are anymore they just keep going anyway. Or they don't obey the no turn on red signs.

Unless in Saffa late at night as a woman driving alone. Which is actually permitted in certain places.

I drive a Prius, and the number of times people just wander out in front of me is mind-boggling. I'm presuming it's a matter of not hearing the car, but come on! My favorite time was when a woman was getting a casserole out of the back of the car, with a kid maybe 4 years old standing next to her. Kid was not just watching, but actually maintaining eye contact with me; mom turned & started to cross the street. Kid stayed put, watching me. Mom *pushed the kid in front of my moving vehicle* without even looking. Good thing I had slowed down, because otherwise I might not have been able to stop in time, I'd had the car for six years at that point, and that was the 12th time I had someone step out in front of me without looking.

This is why the internet. You can argue endlessly about the Oxford Comma or the 'u' in colour with a complete stranger from the relative safety of your own keyboard.

All those idiotic "challenges". Especially doing the ones that involve doing things like choking or eating large amounts of stuff that is strong in tiny doses "for the likes". Do the hapless even understand that people are "liking" watching them suffer?

if they would only dye. Natural selection...

It’s not but what are we really supposed to do about it? It’s not enough to “self-care” my way out of it