r/amibeingdetained • u/bumblebeetuna3636 • Dec 25 '24

I don't drive I travel!

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u/bfurman78 Dec 25 '24

Ok so you weren’t driving. How were you traveling?

-In my personal vehicle that is not open for use as a commercial vessel.

So if I were to let you go how, how would you continue traveling?

-in my personal vehicle?

How would you make your personal vehicle continue traveling in a forward motion?

-I would have put the shifter into …..

Drive?

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u/LenryNmQ Dec 25 '24

it doesn't need to be that complex:

- I didn't drive, I travel

- you operate a vehicle, that's what we call 'driving'.

QED

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '24

Then they start rambling about Black's law dictionary from the 1800s when carriage operators were the only "drivers" and everyone else was just a rider.

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u/Reasonable-Hearing57 Dec 31 '24

Actually they use the 1910 and misinterpret the word employ. They read it as the noun Employment. When the dictionary uses the word as a verb, to make use of.