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UGH! If you don’t know, owning a car in NYC is the worse! Every time you drive, you either get a ticket or a new dent or scratch or you’re stuck in bumper to bumper. No wonder no one wants to drive here! I present the top 10 NYC driving WTF!?!

1. NYC Police officers are there to issue as many tickets as possible. Instead of pulling up to you to offer their greeting and salutations, a NYC Police officer will approach your idling car and give you a fine for obstructing traffic, seat belt, talking on a cell phone, broken tail light, tints, air freshener hanging on your review mirror, etc…

2. Instead of having all the lights are timed so that you will always get to your destination quickly, in NY as your light turns green the next one turns red.

3. People honk before the light turns green to warn you that you will have to drive in a few seconds and if you don’t you will be honked and cursed at.

4. If you have to stop to drop someone off and wait there till they come out, you have to circle until that person is done and you will get stuck in traffic circling.

5. No matter how far away your work is, it’s at least a 1 hour commute in each direction.

6. You have to pay $0.25 for 10 minutes meter parking…if you can find a meter…and if you do there are 12 signs that you have to read and make sure none of them cancel each other out

7. You have to wait at every red light – EVERYWHERE ELSE you can make a right at a red light.

8. You wait at least 3 hours to get anything accomplished at the DMV.

9. There are no drive-throughs in NYC – you have to look for parking to get anything.

10. Your car is bumped, hit, scratched, keyed and destroyed from giant potholes and a*sholes on every street
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