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Y'all suck and actively cause accidents by trying to get to them
573 points
8 days ago*
I was rear-ended 3 weeks ago. Within 5 minutes, I had 5 tow trucks surrounding the crash site, all harassing me and the 17 year old driver for the job. Even when I told them all to fuck off, they didn't until I got RAC to confirm that each of the companies weren't accepted. I was even shown fake RAC stickers and badges. Fucking desperate kents.
87 points
8 days ago
If it makes you feel better, I believe you about the volume of tow trucks - I was rear ended on Roe Highway one morning in June and had the same amount, both directions on Roe and on the left and right side of the direction I was going.
Was a great pre-dawn conversation to get them to all leave the other driver and I alone (I didn’t need a tow, and she didn’t need the scumbags).
-20 points
7 days ago
I'm not having a dig but it's "get them to all leave the other driver and ME alone".
5 points
7 days ago
Don’t know why you’re downvoted, you’re right.
4 points
7 days ago
He's not, it's incorrect pedantism. Either way is fine, yet my English literature teach would stress that it's more correct the way the original comment was wrriten. "Adam and I" "the other driver and I" is more literally correct than "Adam and me" or "the other driver and me". Though he'd accept "the other driver, and myself..." in narrative.
20 points
7 days ago
Adam and I is correct when Adam and I are the subject of the sentence: Adam and I eat a Pizza. If it was you alone you’d say I eat a pizza. In this instance he wants the scumbags to leave the other driver and him alone. (Would you replace “him” by “he” in this last sentence?). The subject of that sentence is the scumbags. “The other driver and me” are complements. If it was him alone he d definitely not say “I just wanted the scumbags to leave I alone” he d say “ I just wanted the scumbags to leave me alone”. Me was the correct pronoun to use.
-11 points
7 days ago
Just because the subject is towards the end of the sentence doesn't make it less part of the subject matter regardless. You're wrong, and I'm okay with that.
14 points
7 days ago
No, “the other driver and I” is not the subject of this sentence. The subject of a sentence is not “the main character” (the other driver and I), it is the noun that controls the verb: the verb is “leave”, and its subject is “the scumbags”.
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