Hey everybody

Posted by Deadzombiesluts@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 57 comments

You guys! Last night I was halfway home from grocery shopping and didn’t realize that I left the inside car light on until I was on the highway. Too short to reach the button without pulling over and had a split second panic. In that same moment I just said to myself- Fuck it. Dad was wrong about a whole lot of shit. I’m just gonna go balls to the wall and drive the whole way home with the light on inside the car and see what happens. Welp, drove the whole way home with that shit on. Nothing happened. My whole life. Okay well not my whole life but still nothing. friggin. happened.

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Sharpshooter188@reddit

This is touching the thermostat level of sin. But Im glad you made it home okay. lol

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RoboJ1M@reddit

Hello, Britain here.
What the hell are you talking about?
☕🧐🫱🇬🇧

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t_bone_stake@reddit

When we Yanks were growing up, our parents, grandparents, or aunt/uncle would get annoyed with us if we turned on the interior dome light while driving at night.

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Gigglesticking@reddit

Bruh, your dad was fighting a different fight. He had candles lighting his way through the dark. Now that we have LED super lights blinding everybody on the road with, i don't think a little interior light would be that distracting! Unless we get 1000w LED dome light!

I feel like I need a welding helmet to drive anymore!

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PantstheOG@reddit

Lmao what did your dad say would happen? I just don’t like the inside light on because it makes everything outside darker and harder to see. I have light sensitivity. If you don’t have light sensitivity it shouldn’t be an issue lol.

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BringBackHUAC@reddit

Driving with the dope light on makes me feel like I'm inside a flying saucer.

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CaptianBrasiliano@reddit

It's not ideal for night vision purposes... it's not like, a thing to do, driving with the interior light on. But it probably won't break the whole ass world either... as Dad would've had us believe...

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brieflifetime@reddit

It was never illegal. All of your parents are freaking dumb as rocks for saying that.. -.-

This is the craziest thing to me. Like.. i wasn't allowed to turn it on either.. but my dad very calmly explained why. It made it very hard for him to see while driving. Which is one of the most important parts of driving. If it was going to be turned on for some reason, he had to move the mirror. Thats it... That's all it was. Your father was too much of a prick to move a mirror or explain proper driving to you.

Tell him to suck lemons.. lol

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thegholahayt@reddit

Settle down

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jesuss_son@reddit

I got pulled over for this and had my car searched lol

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t_bone_stake@reddit

Watch, someone will alert the FBI about what you fessed up too.

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walkingturtlelady@reddit

Hope they don’t cut that tag off their mattress too!

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thegholahayt@reddit

Easy there, you sick freak. Don't even joke about that.

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Neither-Principle139@reddit

I hope you know this will go down on your permanent record

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bikemandan@reddit

Hi Dr Nick

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rafuzo2@reddit

I once heard a quote that said something to the effect of "you don't really become an adult until you start living like your parents have passed on" -- the meaning being that we all grew up being taught to live a certain way by our parents, and we try not to deviate - by buying the more expensive item than we need because we like it, or taking that job that's less stressful but pays a little less, or even voting for a candidate that isn't the preferred one of your parents - because we're secretly afraid of their finding out we did so.

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ReferToMeAsDonald@reddit

Rebel.

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jjmawaken@reddit

Personally, I don't like it on because it distracts me as a driver. Then if they forget to turn it off, which they likely will, it can drain your battery. I'm on dad's side with this one.

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KitchenNazi@reddit

Is draining the battery still a thing? When I lock my car all the lights eventually turn off. They’re all soft buttons and not mechanical switches now so the car can turn the lights off.

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jawanessa@reddit

Mine automatically turn off, too. I sometimes accidentally hit the passenger side light (it's a press and click). I was in a parking garage the other day and it was on when I closed the door. I remembered having maybe hit it a few days prior when I was grabbing my things off the passenger seat. If it stayed on, my battery would've been dead by then. I have a 2022 Subaru.

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hamburgler26@reddit

Forgetting it is the main thing, my kid loves to mess with the switch and move it from DOOR to ON and if I forget to turn it back I'm coming out in the morning and my battery is toast.

It is also mildly annoying to have the light on in the back while driving at night, but not that big of a deal for me.

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Enxer@reddit

For years I had to lock my car in my garage because the kids would jump into it, flick the dome light on as and leave the car.

So many dead batteries

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Massive-Resort-8573@reddit

Same. It makes it hard for me to see the road. I have an astigmatism though, so maybe that combined with my old eyes.

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brodievonorchard@reddit

Congratulations, you've both become the reasoned, practical type of people your dad was trying to encourage you to be.

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seche314@reddit

You’re so lucky you didn’t go to jail!

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Neither-Mycologist77@reddit

"Fuck it. Dad [and Mom] was wrong about a whole lot of shit" has been the ongoing revelation of my adult life.

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MLDaffy@reddit

Great idea to put this in a Final Destination movie. Kids try to turn it on Dad yells no and they ask why....Dad says because we'll get pulled over or get into an accident. Wife proceeds to tell him that's not true just non sense parents used to tell them as kids. She thinks it's cute and funny that he believed it all these years

Then as the father is feeling a little betrayed and questioning everything a sense of relief washes over him.. He reaches up relieved and turns on the light with a smile on his face....BOooooM

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ListeningForAnswers@reddit

My mom would completely lose it when the interior light was on because she said she couldn’t see the road and it was dangerous and apparently I just wanted to kill us all. I could always see the road just fine from the passenger seat while the light was on, so I thought it must somehow be different on the driver’s side.

After I got my license, I was driving at night with a friend in the car. My friend needed to turn on the light to see something within the car but she was really hesitant because her mom had expressed similar concerns about the light and my friend was worried I wouldn’t be able to see the road. She cautiously turned on the light and was like, “Are you ok?? Can you still see?” I could see just fine. I have no idea what the light-on-in-the-car-fuss is about. 🤷🏻‍♀️

And also - I was driving my mom’s former car when this happened. It wasn’t like we had a previous car that made it impossible to see when the light is on. It was the same car. It was literally not a big deal 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Gadshill@reddit

I don't believe there's a single, isolated, publicly documented case in the entire history of driving where an official accident report states something along the line of, "The sole cause of this collision was the interior light being left on."

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Bella_LaGhostly@reddit

And yet, all of our parents... 😆

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Cephalopod_Dropbear@reddit

It is more difficult to see outside if there are lights on inside. I’m sure someone smarter than me can use science explain why.

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Heynowstopityou@reddit

Let's just be thankful you had shoes on!

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AcceptablyPotato@reddit

I'm near sighted with stigmatism and before I got my vision corrected I hated having the interior light on because the extra reflections made it harder to see the road. So naturally, if the kids turned the light on, I'd ask them to turn it off.

Fast forward to my youngest discovering the interior light and my middle child immediately tried correcting her, telling her it was illegal to have it on while we were driving.

Middle child was so convinced of this being illegal that they argued back at me when I explained why i used to ask them to keep the lights off before I got contacts. Haha. I never once said it was illegal.

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Nephite11@reddit

My dad has horrible night vision. It was so bad that even a flashlight at the back of the minivan so I could read at night on roadtrips would cause him to not be able to see well. My siblings and I had to rely on headlights from vehicles behind us to read our books at night. We all hated it when they passed us and we had no more light

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GreenSpaniel@reddit

How high is the roof of your car that you can't reach it?! Were you driving a vehicle for moving giraffes?! How do you adjust the rearview mirror?!

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whorledstar@reddit

Maybe the light was on in the back seat

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Mammoth_Mixture4735@reddit

If i leave that on its hard to see out at night even when i was younger, i guess the glare on the windshield bothered me lol

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No_Sand_9290@reddit

My grandkids don’t need at dome light. They have phones or kindles. And they have them on the entire trip.

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MyBestCuratedLife@reddit

That’s so funny! I was definitely told that.

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Epicardiectomist@reddit

It's not that something is going to happen, it's that it makes looking through the rearview mirror more difficult. I need to see what's going on around me, not the dimly lit outline of my child.

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Both-Tree@reddit

I’m still too scared I’ll fly off a mountain if I do it, even if I just go down the road.

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AmandaMarsh@reddit

We all survived the threat of quicksand, the Bermuda triangle, drugs in our Halloween candy, and interior lights on while driving.

XennialStrong

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herseyhawkins33@reddit

My parents never claimed it was illegal. They just said it was really distracting and that's why we had to keep it off.

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Lanky_Rhubarb1900@reddit

I feel like such a rebel when I’m driving at night with my teen, and if she needs to find something in her purse I say “Well turn on the light so you can see.” Even she knows how we were threatened about having that light on, she goes “Really???”

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icybowler3442@reddit

I guess there are two types of people, here- those who look behind them while driving and those who don’t.

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Glittering-Stuff-599@reddit

Also, driving barefoot. Not illegal!

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gpo321@reddit

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noronto@reddit

I remember hearing people mention that driving with your interiors on was “illegal” and even as a youngster I knew that was bullshit as nobody could then explain why it would illegal.

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Frosty_Cloud_2888@reddit

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WhoStoleMyJacket@reddit

The other day I was out driving and the kids turned on the light. I told them to turn it off immediately, and they went "Why?" …and I had no idea why, it was just one of those things my dad always told me I must never do. He never explained it to me either, I just got this ominous feeling it would lead to our inevitable doom if I didn’t turn it off…

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brieflifetime@reddit

It made it hard for him to see. If he would have adjusted the rear view mirror, he would have been fine.

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theboxisempty@reddit

I think I seriously would have had to pull over and turn it off. But good on you for breaking the wheel!

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cantwejustplaynice@reddit

My issue is that I find it distracting to have the inside of the car brighter than the outside of the car, which is predominantly the area where all the roads, signs and other cars are that I need to focus on. I never considered it might be a distraction to other drivers. Although in my state of Victoria it's an offence to have a video screen playing visible to the driver or a distraction to other drivers, so those headrest DVD players are proudly a no no. That said, I mount my kids Nintendo Switch on the headrest all the time.

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