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10-30-2012, 3:46pm | #1 | ||||||
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Pricks and prickettes on the road...
I was stopped at a stop sign on the way home waiting for traffic to cleat so that I could turn right onto the other road. Traffic had cleared, except for an Infiniti who was approaching from my left in the lane that is both a right-turn lane and a through lane. He had no turn signal on, so I waited for him to clear.
What does he do? Turn right onto the street I was on. Is it too damned much trouble to give a turn signal? Does he think he's above having to signal because he drives an expensive car? Or is he just a discourteous bastard? I don't want you to think that I'm a hot-headed road rage warrior--I'm not. In my business you learn to keep your cool. But between what happened today, cell phone users/texters hogging the left lane at a slow speed, tailgaters who have no possibility of not hitting me if I stopped suddenly, and on and on, it's a wonder we get out alive every day. One other thing: Truckers used to be the most courteous drivers on the road, promptly moving over after they passed a car. Now they just blatantly hog the left lane and don't move over for faster traffic. Why do these people think they own the highway? Driving is about cooperation and give and take. Everyone gets there quicker and safer that way. |
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You KNOW you're getting old when little things in life start to irritate you enough to rant about them!
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Two things,maybe he didn't know how to use them or they don't come on an overly expensive car like that ya think? That irritates me also.
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Me: Wow, that's a really old car.
Wife: What are you talking about? It's brand new. Me: I disagree. Clearly, it was manufactured before the invention of turn signals. Wife: <Shakes head, wonders where her life went wrong> |
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I just assume that people are going to turn if they don't have their signals on and they're not going to turn if they have their signals on. Something my father taught me many years ago when I was learning to drive. To me, life's too short to get annoyed at minor annoyances on the road like that. |
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I've also driven to/from NY every 2 months for 11 years up/down Route 81, a major truck corridor. I have also noticed the same lack of courtesy with regard to the left lane. If a truck moves over when he/she sees me, I give a 'thanks!' wave. If I come up on them and they don't move over, I'll flash my lights, and some will move over. But if they refuse to move over, they will get a bit more of a negative response from me. Most of these people wouldn't last in Germany, that's for sure... |
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It seems contradictory that there were more auto fatalities back then than now, but the big difference is in the roads, not the drivers. 4-lane roads are inherently safer and better marked now, and cars are much safer now. |
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