What's the most frustrating part of owning a car in the UK?

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DiveCave@reddit

The 5 million parking apps needed, even for just local travel

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SpatulaWholesale@reddit

5 million parking apps... and nowhere to park near takeaways or restaurants.

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DiveCave@reddit

Just popping in for a takeaway? Totally acceptable to just throw it anywhere mate, double yellow, bus stop, busy junction neighbours front room. No one can fault you

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OldEquation@reddit

Just put your hazards on to make it legal and you’re good.

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RhodiumRock@reddit

The state of the roads and insurance companies

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DeadYen@reddit

Parking, brings out the worse in us I find especially supermarket car parks.

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Illustrious-Engine23@reddit

Our dependence on them they're so expensive and public transport is not good enough to replace it for a lot of the country.

When you look at insurance, fuel, tax, repairs, maintenance etc, it's really a lot!

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PigneySnoo@reddit

I live an easy walk from a train station and a two minutes from a bus stop. A factor in choosing this house was the proximity to public transport.

The train takes ten minutes. It comes every two hours and the times mean that I need to leave two hours before I start work. Coming home, timings mean I'd arrive home 1 hour 45 minutes after I finish with.

The bus comes more regularly, every 30 minutes. But, it takes 50 minutes to reach the only destination and then I have a 40 minute walk to work. Assuming I leave my house exactly 5 minutes before the bus is due, the journey time is 1 hour 35 minutes each way.

Work is a 20 minute drive away. I drive.

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Illustrious-Engine23@reddit

Exactly.

Compare this to other major eastern european or scandanavian countries, I bet the public transport option will be much better.

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algypan@reddit

Roads are shit, road tax is a fucking joke and shit garages ripping people off by either charging too much, don't do the work required/ asked for or do a piss poor job of it.

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paulg-22@reddit

The fact that modern cars are becoming all but unrepairable.

Complex proprietary computer systems all linked together and to the physical bits of the car and requiring connections to a manufacturer’s server for routine maintenance.

Doubt very much that today’s cars will be future restoration projects.

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seb4096@reddit

Not being able to leave it in a car park for 5 minutes without a ding, bump or scrape despite being parked well within a bay at the edge of the car park.

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johnnyjonnyjonjon@reddit

Other drivers.

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snowmanseeker@reddit

Potholes

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No_Donkey_3761@reddit

I know the location of every pothole on the way to work (dont we all) so it's a case of trying to dodge them or slowing down enough to do minimal damage whilst watching you dont get rear ended because there are so many oblivious auto pilot drivers up my bum.

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Good_Ad_1386@reddit

I wish I knew where all the potholes are on the way to our local town, but they seem to appear between journeys. Once a week shopping trips are fraught (and cost in £wheels).

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LeTrolleur@reddit

Yeah our county council has systematically ruined traffic in our county over a period of 20 years.

They unnecessarily removed roundabouts in favour of crossroads with traffic lights, they have let potholes get out of control, they closed rat runs by putting planters in the way, and they repeatedly refused to build a ring road which is the one thing that would reduce traffic through the town, especially when a certain bridge is closed due to bad weather.

10 points if you guess the council, and a brucey bonus if you can guess the political party in charge.

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Goats_Are_Funny@reddit

What's bad about closing rat runs?

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LeTrolleur@reddit

It's more the way they did it, the planters are an eyesore because they're not tended to buy the council, and they can be easily moved if someone is motivated enough too.

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Good_Ad_1386@reddit

Closing rat runs inevitably increases traffic elsewhere.

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Original-Material301@reddit

Yup.

And the really weird, piss poor road surface quality on some of our A roads and motorways.

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811545b2-4ff7-4041@reddit

Pothole + pay for repairs then.. car written off in a no-claim accident that still raises your insurance costs. Happened to me this year already.

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itsonlymelee@reddit

Yeah, it’s got to be the state of the roads.

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DollySheep32@reddit

This. I have driven on rural country roads that are better surfaced and maintaind than in my parents' bougie town with insane council tax.

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SpatulaWholesale@reddit

I hate narrow country roads, and unfortunately they're all over where I live.

Blind turns, people driving way too fast, potholes, ditches... having to reverse way too far to find a passing spot.

Some people love country roads. I hate them. HATE THEM. I wish map apps had an "avoid country roads" button. I'll happily drive a longer distance to avoid them.

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Belle_TainSummer@reddit

The sour-faced middle aged women who rally their own cars around the carpark at full tilt, because "they'll have to get out of my way" and inevitably smack into something then start screaming about how you damaged their car, despite you being stationary and them racing it towards you expecting you to teleport away. It is always a sour faced, middle aged woman, with a sneer permanently etched into her face.

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pburgess22@reddit

The same can be applied to school run drivers. No one on the road more aggressive than a mum/dad in a minivan/Chelsea tractor on the school run.

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_Nefarium@reddit

My mum is like this, digital driver either accelerating or braking, can't corner smoothly - twiches the wheel hard over and back to corner, hands at 11 and 1, barely sees over the wheel. It's a miracle she's not hit anything in the past 20years, I think it's because everyone sees a blue golf careering all over the road and keeps well back.

I refuse to get in a car with her.

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HowUtterlyGhastly@reddit

digital driver

Hah! I like this concept.

Those fuckers drive like they're playing an F1 Racing sim using only the arrow keys on their keyboard!

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Rebuffs@reddit

Trying to get tyres changed without:

damage to the wheels
wheels not being correctly balanced
the valves not leaking
Overpaying
it taking hours
being upsold unnecessary services

I just want to find a tyre shop run by car people who give a shit. Impossible!!!!

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Steamer1145@reddit

As an 18 year old that recently passed their driving test, it’s definitely insurance for me. Way too expensive

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marc512@reddit

For me it's the depreciation value on the stupidest things. Car has a tiny stone chip? "I'll take it for £1000 less" or in we buy any are you're hit with a £8k car valuation drop because they see micro scratches that can only be seen under a microscope and lighting at a specific angle.

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Rob_Cake@reddit

So just buy cars with chips in?

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marc512@reddit

Depends on the purpose of the car and price. Over £20k? Sure I'll try and haggle. £3000 car with 100k miles? A stone chip or scratch won't bother me.

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Rob_Cake@reddit

Don't think you're getting it

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

I shit ye not, I know someone who took their old car in for part-exchange on a new one, and while he was inside chatting to the salesman some helmet crashed into the old car and drove off.

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Dependent-Ganache-77@reddit

Car size inflation 🫥

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fussyfella@reddit

For me it is definitely the garages - both when you buy and when you have vehicles repaired and serviced.

It is not as simple as them all being bad, or even one marque being better than another, it really comes down to the individual outlet. Some are excellent, professional and helpful, some are just out to rip you off and patronise you, others are basically incompetent. It would not be so bad if there were more proper competition, but to keep warranties you are more or less stuck with a tied group of outlets and that is often just one company per region.

Still it works both ways sometimes: my wife got a load of extras on a car because the salesman was too busy looking at her tits and made a mistake on his order form. When it was delivered he tried to charge her for them, of course she said Foxtrot Oscar. That garage had go so bad the car was never serviced there but taken to one from a different dealer network (but the same marque) near where she worked.

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TremendousCustard@reddit

Parking spaces being too small.

The size hasn't changed since the 70s but cars have gotten wider.

I have hips and trying to squeeze in if someone parks a smidge too close while holding the door in a way that doesn't touch the other car is a pissing nightmare. Why do we make this so difficult?

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TSC-99@reddit

Driving long distances. Our roads aren’t good enough to cope with the amount of traffic. We need more lanes and we need HGVs to be restricted to one lane instead of overtaking something ridiculously slow for hardly any gain.

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HumbleUK@reddit

The roads are actually super bad

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bentleybasher@reddit

Scummy garages. Never been to an honest one yet.

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Insideout_Ink_Demon@reddit

Not so much UK specific, but the bility to repir and service yourself.

I had a diesel. Poor choice for my type of driving, which is mostly mostly short runs. The exhaust would keep getting clogged up and I'd get a warning on the dash. Apparently I should have regularly given it a "good run" and the exhaust would "regen" itself.

Thing is, once that engine light was on, it would refuse to regen. So you'd have to pay for someone to log on to your car's computer and regen it for you (which was basically rag the balls out your car while telling the computer its ok to regen now).

Another one, I need a service/ oil change etc? Get a nice warning on my dash that I have to dismiss every tme I get in the car. If i change that oil myself, will the warning stop? Hell no, again I need to pay someone to hook up to my cars computer and say the oil has been changed.

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Asleep-Software-4160@reddit

MOT day and waiting for The Call. Other than that I really like having a car.

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No_Donkey_3761@reddit

I always wait with my car, I prefer to have bad news in person.

Watching the guy write on his clipboard *sweating intensifies*

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Asleep-Software-4160@reddit

He's tutting and shaking his head sadly.

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Vertigo_uk123@reddit

Go on to the gov mot checker. Then keep refreshing the page and it will update pass or fail once it’s completed likely before they contact you.

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DebsUK693@reddit

No. Download the KnowYourCar app. You get a notification as soon as the garage enter it.

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

You sometimes see it's failed for something very minor which they fixed there and then, re-ran the test and it passed.

I've had that before for things like a dead brakelight bulb or worn wiper blades. The place I use lets you pre-approve all repairs up to £50 without them calling you to confirm.

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No_Donkey_3761@reddit

Other cars absolute blinding headlights.

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JohnConstantinedrink@reddit

Cars that are too complicated.

I want to drive a car, not a computer.

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Thats-right999@reddit

The price of road tax and the price of fuel.

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No_Donkey_3761@reddit

Yeah road tax has really started to annoy me, I pay over £200 a year for my 1999 1.3 just because it predates the new rules for paying vs emissions and not engine size.

I'm sure of the new rules were applied to my engine it would be like what? £35 a year?

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below-belt-money@reddit

Went to France recently, fuel was about 20% more expensive! The roads are so much better though

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Ornery-Wasabi-1018@reddit

Size of average car vs size of average parking space (and garage)

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JohnConstantinedrink@reddit

In the past few weeks I have cleared my garage out and now park the car in it, it’s a Mokka X so not big and the driving I have to do to try and fit the car in the garage.

Half way through, I have to turn the wing mirrors in otherwise it won’t fit through the garage door.

Then after the car is in the garage, I have to bend my body in all sorts of positions to try and get out as the door barely has enough room to open.

This takes me about 10 minutes to reverse the car in the garage.

I actually don’t know why I do it. My car is not desirable for a thief, too boring for a joyrider and I have a driveway that can fit 4 cars on (5 at a push) so I’m not short of space.

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Intruder313@reddit

Too many others using the road and standards have gone to hell since COVID

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pickledperceptions@reddit

Insurance. Driving an old van means i pay nearly the same price of the van in insurance every year., i will most likely not get much in a payout and my Premium will go up if I even consider cliaming. I get that inssurance is necessary but i wish multibillion companies.would cut working people a bit of slack

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Picklerick4670@reddit

Parking.

I live in London and parking is a nightmare. It’s either extortionate prices or I simple can’t find a spot to park my car.

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V65Pilot@reddit

There are parking places in London that make more per hour than some people earn.

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spunkkyy@reddit

I paid £30 for under 2 hrs at the excel centre. Felt like I had been robbed

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V65Pilot@reddit

You were. I've found those private parking apps to be useful at times. I parked for 4 hours in central London (went to see Rocky Horror) for £20.

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louilondon@reddit

This is it for me to parking is a nightmare

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

I have given up driving due to insurance. My car just touched someone else's in a supermarket car park, the damage to her paintwork was only just visible, there was no dent but she had a full respray on my insurance. When I got quotes for the next year it had gone up from about £70 a month to £180.

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Frugal500@reddit

The car just touched someone else’s, or you scratched someone else’s car and now the insurance is looking to cover the cost of that?

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

"the damage to her paintwork was only just visible" A full respray was unnecessary and bumping up my premium to a point where I can't afford to drive anymore is a high price to pay for such a minor accident.

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Frugal500@reddit

You’ve hit her car. Even if it’s barely visible aesthetics aside that’s a hit in resale value due to you

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

Get a life junior

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Frugal500@reddit

It does though. I’d get my car resprayed to maintain value. Onus is on you not to hit it…

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Opening_Nose_2347@reddit

That is not the point, I expect to be penalised for my transgression but not for it to be so high that I have to stop driving. I have been driving for 40 years and never had an accident. On the other hand pulling out of a parking space once, another driver was doing about 70 in a residential road with a bend in it so he was not visible as pulled out; he damn near killed me and wrote off my car. I had no witnesses or any proof, so he got clean away with it and I got nothing from my insurance.

I pay my insurance in order that people can get their car fixed if I hit them, I have paid for that woman's respray a hundred times over in 40 years.

Not that you are concerned with morality, it is obvious that you are just a toxic.

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Frugal500@reddit

Well yeah I mean the insurance hike sucks I get that but my issue was more your kind of “I barely hit it” and “they shouldn’t make such a big deal out of me hitting their car”. It is mad that they get to penalise you for so long for a claim

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Dadbodposterboy@reddit

Inconsiderate arseholes who park in parent and child

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TomLondra@reddit

Everybody should try to live in a place where it is not necessary to own a car.

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split-tennisball@reddit

How is that possible?

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TomLondra@reddit

Live in a city, not in a suburb.

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Dadbodposterboy@reddit

I'd rather live far away from a city and have a car

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split-tennisball@reddit

How can everyone live in a city?

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ANAL_PROLAPSE_KISSER@reddit

Public transport, eww

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TomLondra@reddit

This.

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Asleep-Software-4160@reddit

I reckon the amount I'd have to pay for a three bed house with a big garden in a city would be a bit more annoying than owning a car tbh.

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Used-Ad9589@reddit

Potholes, day to day, bane of my existence, terrible quality speed ramps are just as bad we have BOTH around my home...

Other drivers. Long term, if someone wrecks your car, you still get F.... Screwed over, and are then or if pocket and it sucks.

Insurance prices are another pita. They equally take the Mick.

Fuel it's annoying too, though electric is an option that has it's own issues.

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loperaja@reddit

Nothing. Listen, I’m Colombian and other than petrol prices this place is heaven for drivers, and in terms of respect of rules and common sense. Never ever think otherwise, if I can think of something that’s been improving nonstop that is transit

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chartupdate@reddit

Other drivers.

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Dissidant@reddit

Other road users

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Maester_Magus@reddit

By FAR. Driving would be an absolute delight if there were no other people on the road.

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Jealous_Problem356@reddit

Much like life in general!

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highersense@reddit

Moved out of South east after living there whole life, best thing i ever did.

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USS_Barack_Obama@reddit

People just using their indicators, especially on roundabouts, would be a big improvement

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LazyFiiish@reddit

I work about an hours drive from home in the country. During covid, that drive was like a race track

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SpongeFixation@reddit

Other people

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theabominablewonder@reddit

All the pigeons hiding under the seats

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MadJohnFinn@reddit

I had a pigeon in my bank account. They had to remove the money to decontaminate it. I’ll have it back soon - I think.

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theabominablewonder@reddit

The pigeons are a constant hassle, the biggest hassle with owning a car or owning a bank account

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bonamoureux@reddit

Road tax.

Pay as fortune to get permission to use my car on crap roads.

Also have to pay for each motorcycle.

Can only use one at once and I don't do a huge amount of miles. Road tax costs me more than insurance and maintenance for the year for all my vehicles.

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Exciting_Top_9442@reddit

Honesty for me it’s been the lack of parking that home/house builders need to install.

It all revolves around profit.

Why is there no parking? (predators like CPM blossom with shitty practices).

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BigFloofRabbit@reddit

Exacerbated by the number of households that have two or more cars. Sadly, more parking availability leads to more cars which means lack of parking availability again.

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HowUtterlyGhastly@reddit

Yep this is the inherent problem with expanding capacity, or making use of existing resources more efficiently.

Usage will always expand to fill the capacity that is available.

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Exciting_Top_9442@reddit

The estate I live in has ground level covered parking. It works well except the security gates often break apparently.

I’m just advocating for more parking and less housing if that’s the way point.

Yes I also want more houses.

Also I want more green spaces.

I also want to be rich!

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BigFloofRabbit@reddit

Understandable. Most of England is at the point of people to land ratio that lower and lower-middle income people cannot really afford to have a house with a garden and a driveway.

My observation to the solution to that in expensive parts of the world is usually high-rise blocks with underground parking.

But I have a feeling British people ain't gonna like that.

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JoeBagadonut@reddit

I live on a new build estate and there was a fire at one of the nearby houses. Fire engine struggled to reach it initially because the lack of spaces has led to many residents just parking in the road.

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Branchy28@reddit

The state of the roads.

Drivers were much worse in South Africa where I lived for 13 years but it's genuinely surprising that road infrastructure is so much worse in this country than it is in South Africa, How is it possible that a country like South Africa who can't even keep the lights on (Electrical power outages are frequent, aka Loadshedding) builds and maintains their roads and highways to a higher standard than they can here 😭

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oli_ramsay@reddit

Other drivers

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Key_Produce2617@reddit

Used to be servicing and things going wrong with an old car. Now have an EV so only worried about the battery dying and costing thousands!

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Powerage07@reddit

Other drivers is the main problem but as someone that lives on a new build estate, the lack of parking for home owners and their guests is beyond negligent.

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

That’s by design. Councils twist developers arms to limit parking for all. This weird idea that they think we have a functioning public transport network in the country! My local council rejected a 300 building development because the bigger houses could park 3 cars in the drive.

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Powerage07@reddit

I can't imagine they need must twisting, i always assumed more parking = less houses = less £££ for the developers but good point on councils thinking towards public transport though

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No_Actuary9100@reddit

Insurance. It’s getting crazy expensive even for experienced drivers with max No Claims, like me

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TheRealPatrick79@reddit

Absolutely every other driver on the road is the main problem. If you'd all like to stay at home it would make my journeys much more enjoyable.

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Most_Kiwi3141@reddit

Tell you what, you can have the mornings if I can have the afternoons. Sound all right?

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atsevoN@reddit

MOT for me, car is 30 years old

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bobmanuk@reddit

I always seem to be in the financial situation that necessitates the ownership of shitboxes.

My biggest frustration is getting into the car and something makes a new or different sound. Or behaves slightly differently to the last time I was in it.

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louse_yer_pints@reddit

Stupid repair bills (they're all stupid BTW)

My drivera door handle is feked so the mechanism needs replaced. £200 for the bit plus a couple of hours labour. Greetin'

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Timely_Egg_6827@reddit

Parking. Expensive, cramped, hard to find.

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howaboutanothergame@reddit

Citroen wet belt issues - hateful car make.

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Sea-Still5427@reddit

I have to park on the street and it's really distressing how often my lovely neighbours will scrape someone else's car while parking and say nothing.

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Joneb1999@reddit

Still having to drive it.

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lurcherzzz@reddit

With modern cars the most frustrating thing for me is my inability to repair the car on my drive. I sold my modern car and bought an old Land Rover. It's simple, and will get me from a to b forever as long as I maintain it.

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lovelight@reddit

As an Audi owner being a prick 24/7 is exhausting

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

I am seriously fed up of green P plates. All of these people drive like utter shite, like actual learners with red L plates are at a higher standard.

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nihilistkitty@reddit

People not indicating of indicating too late on roundabouts

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Nelgumford@reddit

Local authorities deliberately making it more difficult to drive when there's no viable alternative.

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Bossman_Mike@reddit

And new facilities being put in with zilch parking even though the local public transport is arse.

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PinkLibraryStamp@reddit

Bird poo

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theartofnocode@reddit

Potholes.

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New-Bit-8931@reddit

Usually the second most expensive thing most people will ever buy, yet there will always be someone that will happily damage it, simply because you have it.

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Vertigo_uk123@reddit

Decent garages are fully booked weeks if not months in advance. Meaning you have to go to either a dodgy backstreet or extortionate place like quick fit for a service. I tried to get mine in at a specialist for my car and they said their next available slot was mid November.

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DaughterOfATiredMech@reddit

20 Speed limits in places other than school roads

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

Don’t… Edinburgh is just hell now. Main 40s where there’s zero pedestrians or even access for them 30 I think one even went to 20… schools and schemes 20 everything else 30 or 40.

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MrPogoUK@reddit

That the roads are somehow still in terrible condition despite constant roadworks all over the place.

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shredditorburnit@reddit

How the tax bill is the one thing the government manage to send out on time.

Proof they can do it when they actually want to.

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TheLightStalker@reddit

VAT on car parts. Turns a £400 job into £600.

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ikariw@reddit

Surely vat would turn a £400 job into £480?

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Suspicious_Steak_696@reddit

That everyone seems to think using cars is a human right, everyone else is the problem and other road users are an inconvenience to them. And people who park on footways

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FriendlyGrab3217@reddit

Other road users. Drove the same car across the Irish sea and I didn't swear once, which felt like a miracle. Somehow my fuel economy was 5mpg higher, which I put down to the fact there's no fucking traffic lights outside of middle size towns and above.

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GuybrushFunkwood@reddit

There’s a pigeon who Im sure saves up his weekly bowel movements for when I wash the cars on a Sunday

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Plus_Pangolin_8924@reddit

Councils closing roads, narrowing them, making everything 20 including main arterial roads, pot holes that could have been fixed if they didn’t blow the budget on silly things…

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evijguano@reddit

Price of petrol

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Dolgar01@reddit

Traffic volume. It’s not just other drivers, it’s the number of other road users.

One of the few positives of being a key worker during the pandemic was that the roads were so much clearer. Reduced my average commute from 40 mins plus to under 30 minutes. And it was much less stressful.

A lot of people are commenting on potholes and we both have the same root issue. The road network was never designed or built for this level of use.

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blurdyblurb@reddit

Having to commute on the M62!

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International-You-13@reddit

Generally it's how much of a financial millstone cars can be, especially if you're completely dependent on a car.

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County-Thos@reddit

How fucked the roads are.

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Iammildlyoffended@reddit

The constant roadworks where and around where I live.

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alexanderbeswick@reddit

Dreading the MOT. I personally feel that there are alot of drivers on the road with no license/insurance/vehicle exise duty/MOT too. I feel we pay the highest fuel duty here, too. I have driven in many countries though the the driving standards are very good here.

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FeDUpGraduate87@reddit

Buying a car, a fairly decent one, putting fairly decent tyres on it.... to hit a fucking pot hole!

To have a car that is very comfortable and efficient at 70-80mph..... just for there to be cones up on the motorway at my house 40mph limit and some kind of camera thing installed..... no work being undertaken. Just cones, reduced speed limit and a camera....

Fuck off! Just fuck off!

The main road that goes through mt village is still a whopping 30mph.... I'll be surprised if its still 30 by the end of the year. Get your fucking foot off our necks you bastards!

That actually annoys me more that the £2 for diesel.

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kentgti@reddit

People who park right next to me in an empty car park where I’ve parked far away from the entrance. WHY, WHY ARE YOU DOING IT AND STOP HITTING MY DOORS.

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cowbutt6@reddit

People damaging it whilst parked, and not leaving a (honest, helpful) note.

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Rob_Cake@reddit

Garages open in work hours. I understand why. But would love a dream world where garages are open 24/7 and you can just drop it after work / collect in the morning

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NerdOnTheStr33t@reddit

Fuel duty on top of horrendously inflated prices.

Huge corporations worth billions pay little to no tax yet every day people are squeezed for every penny.

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TheNotSpecialOne@reddit

Keeping it clean

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GrabbedByTheGhost@reddit

Just how marketing has changed them. And how other people feel the need to buy all these shitty SUVs which take up space.

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Redditisarsebollocks@reddit

The price of fuel.

Even before the war.

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DependentRounders934@reddit

The fact my car’s air conditioning is broken

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rice_fish_and_eggs@reddit

First world problems.

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Jchicc0@reddit

Dodging potholes

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rachy182@reddit

Roads not big enough for two cars to pass properly. Even those that you have to slow down a bit and make sure both of you move over enough because there’s always some dick who won’t move over and force you into a ditch.

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masha1901@reddit

Potholes, and the stupidity of other drivers.

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bobbyroberts72@reddit

Other drivers doing 36 in a 60 when the next turn off isn’t for another 20 miles.

That and the cost of it, petrol, repairs, tax, all really expensive, in fact the only bargain is the insurance coming in at around £100 a year after cashback.

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Fantastic-Option-260@reddit

For me it’s “complexity”.

I live quite a hectic life and each extra rule or requirement for Cars makes sense in isolation, but starts to add up collectively (I wish all government depts had a rule that for every new bit of admin they give to the public they have to remove one).

Roughly counting for my car:

- VED (“road tax”)

- MOT

- Service schedule

- Insurance

- Extra insurance for any trip to Europe etc (+ bits like headlight deflectors, warning triangles etc)

- The variety of congestion/emission zones round the country

- The variety of anpr parking apps and rules

-Photo card licence renewal

- council Parking permits for parking in your street

- tip permits if you want to use our local tip (not everyone requires these)

In isolation they’re all tiny and fine, but my biggest frustration when balancing every other bit of admin in my life. I just wish it could all be simpler.

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Auto_Princess@reddit (OP)

Couldn't agree more!

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