# Road courtesy maneuver:  Naughty but nice

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-courtesy-maneuver-naughty-but-nice/514187>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [October 18, 2009, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-courtesy-maneuver-naughty-but-nice/514187 "2009-10-18T01:20:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2009, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/road-courtesy-maneuver-naughty-but-nice/514187/181 "2009-10-24T05:53:43Z")

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I don’t expect someone to do a famers turn to keep me from slowing down, but I do appreciate it. Something is missing here. I will for instance, stop at the top of the pass (a big wide area and pull off the road) and let people by because I know that after getting over the pass, and everyone is speeding up I don’t want someone on my ass when I have to make a near stop on a highway to make a hairpin turn onto a gravel road to my right in a mile.

If I’m coming from the other direction, coming up the pass I signal way before and know just what I need to do. If someone is behind me, and all is clear I will move into the left as I slow down and make the turn so they can keep their momentum up. Simple and better than getting rear ended.

I saw two famer turns coming home from work tonight. Never thought much of it. Never even knew it had a name. Never even thought about it until I saw this thread.

I think we are talkng past each other in this thread. Oh, and if people aren’t moving their head and looking around the new fat A pillars, they shouldn’t be behind the wheel anyway. That has nothing to do with the ‘farmer turn’. That would be classified under ‘bad driver’.

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