Right of way. It’s a simple concept to those of us who weren’t dropped on our heads during delivery, and apparently there are a lot of delivery room floor bouncers driving in this area.
Example 1: When you arrive at at intersection before me, and I stop, it’s your turn to go. Don’t fuck things up by flashing your lights, waving your hands or some other stupid assed signal. Go! This is even made worse when you’re displaying no signal and I wish to turn. Goddamnit, GO! Get the hell through the intersection so I can turn!
Example 2: When you’re already in a circle, rotary, roundabout, or circular fucking traffic thingamabob, DO NOT slow or stop to wave someone in! We’re waiting for a break, and will happily do so without you fucking up the orderly sequence of things.
Example 3: When entering a highway via slip ramp, the Yield sign is for you, not us, fuckstick. Match/adjust your speed to the hole in existing traffic, or stop. We can’t fold our cars/trucks up like George Jetson to make room for you. Conversely, don’t be a timid bastard. Every now and then Mr. Accelerator should spend time with Mr. Floor, and entering a 65 MPH highway from a tight uphill spiral entrance ramp is an example of when the two should become intimately acquainted.
Thank you. I’m now prepared for the next three pages of posts by asshats who will offer exculpatory evidence substantiating their Og-given right to drive like a fucktard. :dubious:
I fucking hate it when people do this, I usually take my hands off the wheel and sit and wait for them.
People actaully do this? Around here there is one circle that people seem to expect you to stop in the circle for them.
I’m sick of the people who wait until the last second to get in the lane they want. Going home from work and getting on the highway people wait until the last second to get ove and on the highway. I see people doing 90 degree turns at the last second.
We don’t have traffic circles where I live, and thanks to the aforementioned fucktards, don’t use the interstate unless I have to. (You wouldn’t believe how many of these fucktards drive for a living.)
My addition: Uh, tourist dudes, please don’t slow down to gawk at the Amish horse and buggy. They don’t like it, and I, who have seen a million of those things, will assram you as I go down the road at speeds in excess of 50 mph.
Those must be the same people who, when they get down here, see a tunnel going into the bay and almost come to a complete stop before entering said tunnel. “Look Doris, we’re going under the water! Get your camera!”
Ooooh, yes. The whole Right-of-Way concept is completely lost down here as well. There’s an intersection that’s a four-way stop two blocks from my house that I just hate. No one (but me, of course ) understands how to go through it. All the old people in my neighborhood try to be nice and wave me through it, but I just sit there and shake my head.
Nope, I’m not going. You have the freaking Right-of-Way - take it!
Unless you are at the square up the road from me, where incoming traffic has the right of way. The sign just says, “Yield to traffic on the right” and it baffles the hell out of strangers and not a few non-strangers.
Oooooo… I hate this too. Bicyclists seem to do this to me a lot. They are trying to be nice, but are often unaware that I may also need to wait for another vehicle or cyclist.
…or even better are the people who stop on a main road to let you turn out of stop sign. My favorites are the ones with NOBODY behind them! Look, I could have actually gone quicker if you had just kept going. I am, in fact, waiting for your sorry pokey ass to get the fuck out of my way. Do not try to be nice; unless the traffic is such that you are almost stopped already, you’re not helping.
Of course, none of this dumbasshatery is nearly as offensive to me as left lane squaters. I fully support a measure to allow the left lane new status to enable drivers to ram slow asses out of the left lane. Maybe with some caveat like: if you have already been passed by someone who started in your lane, had to move to the right, then moved back in front of you, every car behind you can take one try to bump you in to the right lane.
I hate to be that guy, but now I’ve got to object. Too many drivers do not believe bicycles evr habe the right of way, ever. Unless I get eye contact from you and a clear signal that I should go ahead of you, I will yield. If you have tinted windows, I will stop the bike completely and stand with my arms crossed until you’ve passed. Even if you’re going slow, your car can maim me pretty good.
The alternative is that these drivers have to panic at the last minute trying to get into the left lane so they can turn left. Personally, I’d rather they camp in the left lane, which is merely obnoxious, than try to cross said left lane at the last second and without warning, which is actively dangerous.
Camping for left turns I understand and can forgive (assuming they don’t take five miles as a reasonable distance for camping). I’m talkin’ highways were exits are to the right. Some people really have no good reason for being in the left lane.
Isn’t it funny how for the most part, people cause chaos on the road by being selfish idiots, but at intersections cause chaos by being overly considerate idiots?
And if the exit is 1/4 mile ahead on the left, I think driving 75 in a 55 MPH zone should be fast enough that the guy behind me shouldn’t be in my back seat.
I don’t drive, but I do cycle, and I have to add one from the bicyclist’s point of view:
If I’ve been standing perfectly still one meter away from the crossing, hands off the bar, waiting for twenty cars to pass by before I cross and you’re driving the last car with nothing behind you but beautiful, unobstructed carless road, DO NOT slow down to let me cross. By the time I’ve realized that is what you’re doing and managed to get my bike moving and actually got my front wheel to touch the road, you could have been far, far away and I could have already crossed, and we would both be wherever we need to be quicker.
One of the first things I came to hate when moving to Ohio from Michigan were “Yield” signs on freeway entrances. Michigan does not use “Yield” where some flaming fool might equate the word to “stop,” it uses “Merge” so that the explicit message of the highway department is that one is supposed to match speed and enter where an opening occurs rather than coming to a halt and interfering with the next fifteen cars trying to get on the highway.
(After 25 years, I am somewhat resigned to the idiotic signage, although I still would like to arm my vehicle with a GAU-8A for those occasions where the clown in front of me stops on an entrance ramp. Most Ohio drivers are not so foolish, but there are enough to make entrances an adventure.)
I saw someone do this for someone who wanted to pull out of a parking lot and make a left-hand turn onto the street (they were actually using their signal, surprise). To the right, there were cars stopped at a light, up to a carlength from the person who wanted to turn out. Instead of pulling ahead and still leaving room for the person to pull out behind them, someone heading to the right (from the perspective of the person in the parking lot) stopped short and waved that driver through - just in time for that person to assume the waver knew the way was clear. Nope, the traffic heading to the left had a green at that time, and wham, the person turning was pretty much T-boned on the passenger side of the car.
) understands how to go through it. All the old people in my neighborhood try to be nice and wave me through it, but I just sit there and shake my head.