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Hey Pandas, what’s something ‘completely normal’ that suddenly feels illegal when you do it?
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#1
Passing through the store exit scanners. Although I know I haven't taken anything, I still find myself instinctively bracing for the alarm to sound each time.
Final score:
15points
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#2
Talking to a cop. Granted my partner’s ex-wife and MIL perjured themselves, attacked me, made false police reports, falsely imprisoned me and my partner, and stalked me and the cops decided I was the criminal even though I called for protection 3 times.
Final score:
12points
StrangeOne 4 months ago
Even when I'm reporting a crime to 911 or calling for help, I feel like I'm the one in trouble.
#3
Every time I see a police vehicle near me on the road, I start to mentally evaluate every possible thing they could pull me over for, and I start driving like a nonagenarian.
Final score:
11points
#4
Looking things up on the internet. Things like various ways to k**l people, what really happens when you get shot in the shoulder, and what kinds of plants in a certain area are poisonous. I write mysteries, but my browser history makes me look like one of my villains.
Final score:
11points
Rick Murray 4 months ago
Yeah... for one of my stories I want a nerve agent that can be released that will k**l everybody quickly. Turns out that anthrax can take time. So I'm looking up the nasty stuff they used in the World Wars trying to work out what's the simplest to make that's the most deadly. Yeah...I don't fancy having to have to try to explain that to any paranoid officialdom.
#5
Using the McDonald's toilets without buying anything, not even a cheeseburger.
Final score:
10points
#8
Walking outside early in the morning. I'm not trying to break in anywhere and I'm not trying to sleep on the street. I just prefer the quiet and lack of blazing sun.
Final score:
5points
StrangeOne 4 months ago
Walking about at night, very late, or early morning before the sun comes up. People think you're up to something and/or shouldn't be out at that time. Anytime someone is assaulted or dies at night, outside, people in the comments question why that person was out so late in the first place.
#10
The "stoptional". I tell people that if a stop sign has a border, you can ignore it. Yeah, not true.
Our state just passed a law that allows bicycles to do what is apparently called the "Idaho Stop" which allows them to run stop signs under certain circumstances but does not remove liability from either party. I always respect cyclists, who often train here for high elevation competitions.
Final score:
2points
#11
Knowing the difference between p********a and ephebophilia. And why this difference matter.
Final score:
0points
iseefractals 4 months ago
My uncle met his third wife when she was 18 and he was 41. They married a year later. 4 kids and married 35 very happy years when he died. Nothing creepy or strange about it. But....the past few years have seen a concentrated effort to infantilize women in the even of any age gap of more than a few years. Every situation is not the worst imaginable scenario, everyone needs to learn to mind their own business again, and acknowledge that adults are adults, their choices are their own and how you feel about it, really doesn't matter.
What do you think ?
Igor914624 4 months ago
Buying liquor in a liquor store. I always feel like they are going to find out I am underage. I am 61....
StrangeOne 2 months ago
Putting my phone, or anything that was already on me, in my purse or pocket in a store. (Not an issue now) Going on the public computers at the library, booking time just to play games. (No researching or needing to take care of anything pressing. Just free time to dress up a Disney character or decorate a fictional house.) Then someone standing behind me because it's there turn in 15 minutes. Walking on the side of the road in winter because there's no sidewalk.
Rick Murray 4 months ago
Going around a roundabout more than once. Usually it's because I'm trying to follow my navigation - she can't say "at the roundabout, go straight" as people might take that way too literally, so it's "at the roundabout, take the third exit"... does that farm track count as an exit? Dammit, let's try this again. Other times, I go round twice just because. ;)
Igor914624 4 months ago
Buying liquor in a liquor store. I always feel like they are going to find out I am underage. I am 61....
StrangeOne 2 months ago
Putting my phone, or anything that was already on me, in my purse or pocket in a store. (Not an issue now) Going on the public computers at the library, booking time just to play games. (No researching or needing to take care of anything pressing. Just free time to dress up a Disney character or decorate a fictional house.) Then someone standing behind me because it's there turn in 15 minutes. Walking on the side of the road in winter because there's no sidewalk.
Rick Murray 4 months ago
Going around a roundabout more than once. Usually it's because I'm trying to follow my navigation - she can't say "at the roundabout, go straight" as people might take that way too literally, so it's "at the roundabout, take the third exit"... does that farm track count as an exit? Dammit, let's try this again. Other times, I go round twice just because. ;)
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