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A scoutmaster of mine had a theory. Everyone has their own different version of what "9:30" means- to some it's 9:25, to others 9:45. But there is only one 9:32

A scoutmaster of mine had a theory. Everyone has their own different version of what "9:30" means- to some it's 9:25, to others 9:45. But there is only one 9:32. So he would use weird times like that, we're meeting at 6:07 today.

Stratoscope 1y ago
Saratoga, CA does something similar. The twisty part of Quito Road, between Bicknell Road and Pollard road, has a speed limit of 25 mph. But the sharper turns have advisory speed signs (the yellow diamond kind) with numbers like 17, 19, 21, and 22 mph to catch drivers' attention and get them to slow down on these turns.
- roland35 1y ago
  I always love seeing stuff like this on reddit /r/oddlyspecific I think I even saw a 5.25 mph sign once!
- hammock 1y ago
  Then there’s an aggressive driver who sees that and realizes it hammers home the point that the yellow speed signs (vs the white ones) are not enforceable. And an enforceable sign could never be a weird number because speedos don’t have ticks but every 5mph.
  - jedberg 1y ago
    > And an enforceable sign could never be a weird number because speedos don’t have ticks but every 5mph. Disneyland famously has a 14mph speed limit for their property. They do this both to get your attention, and because the tram moves at 14mph (because 15mph requires seatbelts).
    - hammock 1y ago
      Not a legally enforceable speed limit.
      - DiggyJohnson 1y ago
        Private property though so they could eject you right?
  - boxed 1y ago
    The first time I drove in the US I came up to a turn with the yellow speed sign. I was going faster and I could feel my car strain to not go off the road. This is to this day the second scariest thing I've experienced in a car. After that I 100% followed the yellow signs.
    - Stratoscope 1y ago
      > This is to this day the second scariest thing I've experienced in a car. I have to know! What was the scariest thing?
      - boxed 1y ago
        Going past a line of cars that were backed up and going like ~10 km/h and some guy in a pickup truck suddenly decided to force his way into the line and hit a car so it jumped into my lane by a meter or so. Only time I have ever needed to perform the moose maneuver we are taught in driving school :P I was lucky there was no car in the lane to my right.
        Stratoscope 1y ago
        Oof! Here are my two scariest recent ones... I was driving north on Highway 87 in San Jose in the #2 lane (second lane from the left) when directly in front of me was a big metal rack, standing up in the road! It looked like something you might hang clothes hangers on. Which made it all the worse because it wasn't as visible as a heavier rack. I hit the brakes and swerved into the #1 lane to avoid it. Luckily no one was in that lane. I try to keep situational awareness of the lanes to my right and left, so I felt pretty sure that no one was in that lane next to me. The other was driving on northbound El Camino in Menlo Park, in the rightmost lane, at night. Someone was riding a bike in that lane, dressed all in black (and even a black hoodie), with no lights or reflectors or anything to make himself visible. And he was doing that thing that some young people like to do where they weave back and forth for no reason at all except that it's fun? Another brake slam and swerve to avoid him. It ended OK but was definitely a white knuckle moment!
    - 1y ago
- PlunderBunny 1y ago
  Not really the same thing, but in New Zealand, all speed limits are multiples of 10 (km/h), and all recommended safe speeds (e.g. for a sharp corner) end in ‘5’.
  - dalmo3 1y ago
    The 95 signs are hilarious.
mkopinsky 1y ago
Initially I was sure you were talking about my Scoutmaster. (The details diverged in the end.) The expected arrival time for camping trips was always something like 9:59am - that way people would hopefully show up at 9-something or maybe just a few minutes late like 10:10. If the expected arrival time was 10:00, people would interpret it as 10-something and show up at 10:45.
SwtCyber 1y ago
It breaks the autopilot habit of just rounding things off and rolling in late

Stratoscope 1y ago

Saratoga, CA does something similar. The twisty part of Quito Road, between Bicknell Road and Pollard road, has a speed limit of 25 mph. But the sharper turns have advisory speed signs (the yellow diamond kind) with numbers like 17, 19, 21, and 22 mph to catch drivers' attention and get them to slow down on these turns.

roland35 1y ago
I always love seeing stuff like this on reddit /r/oddlyspecific I think I even saw a 5.25 mph sign once!
hammock 1y ago
Then there’s an aggressive driver who sees that and realizes it hammers home the point that the yellow speed signs (vs the white ones) are not enforceable. And an enforceable sign could never be a weird number because speedos don’t have ticks but every 5mph.
- jedberg 1y ago
  > And an enforceable sign could never be a weird number because speedos don’t have ticks but every 5mph. Disneyland famously has a 14mph speed limit for their property. They do this both to get your attention, and because the tram moves at 14mph (because 15mph requires seatbelts).
  - hammock 1y ago
    Not a legally enforceable speed limit.
    - DiggyJohnson 1y ago
      Private property though so they could eject you right?
- boxed 1y ago
  The first time I drove in the US I came up to a turn with the yellow speed sign. I was going faster and I could feel my car strain to not go off the road. This is to this day the second scariest thing I've experienced in a car. After that I 100% followed the yellow signs.
  - Stratoscope 1y ago
    > This is to this day the second scariest thing I've experienced in a car. I have to know! What was the scariest thing?
    - boxed 1y ago
      Going past a line of cars that were backed up and going like ~10 km/h and some guy in a pickup truck suddenly decided to force his way into the line and hit a car so it jumped into my lane by a meter or so. Only time I have ever needed to perform the moose maneuver we are taught in driving school :P I was lucky there was no car in the lane to my right.
      - Stratoscope 1y ago
        Oof! Here are my two scariest recent ones... I was driving north on Highway 87 in San Jose in the #2 lane (second lane from the left) when directly in front of me was a big metal rack, standing up in the road! It looked like something you might hang clothes hangers on. Which made it all the worse because it wasn't as visible as a heavier rack. I hit the brakes and swerved into the #1 lane to avoid it. Luckily no one was in that lane. I try to keep situational awareness of the lanes to my right and left, so I felt pretty sure that no one was in that lane next to me. The other was driving on northbound El Camino in Menlo Park, in the rightmost lane, at night. Someone was riding a bike in that lane, dressed all in black (and even a black hoodie), with no lights or reflectors or anything to make himself visible. And he was doing that thing that some young people like to do where they weave back and forth for no reason at all except that it's fun? Another brake slam and swerve to avoid him. It ended OK but was definitely a white knuckle moment!
  - 1y ago
PlunderBunny 1y ago
Not really the same thing, but in New Zealand, all speed limits are multiples of 10 (km/h), and all recommended safe speeds (e.g. for a sharp corner) end in ‘5’.
- dalmo3 1y ago
  The 95 signs are hilarious.

mkopinsky 1y ago

Initially I was sure you were talking about my Scoutmaster. (The details diverged in the end.) The expected arrival time for camping trips was always something like 9:59am - that way people would hopefully show up at 9-something or maybe just a few minutes late like 10:10. If the expected arrival time was 10:00, people would interpret it as 10-something and show up at 10:45.

SwtCyber 1y ago

It breaks the autopilot habit of just rounding things off and rolling in late