I’ve got nothing to add, except there is a bumper sticker out there I had on my old car:
VISUALIZE…
using your turn signal
I’ve got nothing to add, except there is a bumper sticker out there I had on my old car:
VISUALIZE…
using your turn signal
Even worse than that, IMO, are the people that signal and then just change lanes without looking, as though the signal has special power to clear traffic for them. Skelji calls it 'The Moses Signal"
Suddenly I have the Batman theme going in my head…
o/Nananananananananananananananana Moses! Nananananananananananananananana Moses! Moses! Moses! Moses! o/
From his home in stately Goldman manor, millionaire playboy Moishe Goldman fights crime as…MOSES! With his sidekick and ward Edward, the Goy Wonder, he keeps Gotham safe from evil!
I’d like to see the power steering and air conditioning in cars be enabled only through the use of the blinker. If they don’t want to use the blinker, fine, but at least cause them to break into a latherous sweat.
No but Crunchy Frog would like to think he is as funny.
Now I know where he gets these brillant yet entertaining ideas.
Of course all this time I thought he was being original
I’ve always been of the belief that the engine should just cut out entirely in this situation. If they’re too stupid to turn the signal off after 2 miles, they don’t deserve to drive. I’m sure various automated insults, etc. could also be incorporated to add to the humiliation…
For starters. Once we have the motherfuckers using their turn signals, we can go to work on the proper lanes to turn into, how to behave at a yellow light that’s 400 feet away, and why that thick white line at the intersection is called a “stop line.”
And right-of-way. BOY, do we need to work on right-of-way…
Have you lived in south Florida long?
Oh, do we ever. I can’t believe how many times in the last few weeks I’ve muttered, “Don’t wave me on, asshole, I know I have the right-of-way!”
How do elderly retirees manage todrive the 1600 miles form NYC, to Boca Raton, FL, with their left turn signals CONTINUALLY ON??
Oh, I heard that in Sweden, you brakes activate the fron DRLs…so you can tell if somebody is braking to turn…is this true? We ought to have this feature here!
Eh, it’s no big. I crib from Dave Barry all the time. I used to credit him while I was doing it, but my GF made me stop. Apparently, it’s funnier if she thinks I thought of it myself. Plus, it’s the whole chef thing–you know, never admit to anything going wrong in the kitchen, and everybody will love it.
[sub]Somewhere, in the dim recesses of my brain, I knew who your husband was, but I forgot.[/sub]
I occasionaly see a bumper sticker that I want, but haven’t found:
“Turn signals - works better than mind reading.”
You should live the pedestrian experience here; taxi drivers are particulary nefarious on their non-use of turning signals, I´ve been this close of being hit by taxis making a speedy turn without signaling.
Reason No. 152 to get that pocket bazooka I´ve been longing for.
Here in the land of gridlock, (AKA Los Angeles), signalling when you want to change lanes works about 50% of the time. Half the time the person will let you in, sometimes very grudgingly…the other half, they’ll close the gap and squeeze you out in order to protect their hard-earned territory. I always signal (and get annoyed at my fiancee if she doesn’t) so I’ve just learned to accept that the world has its assholes. Those assholes are going to behave in their asshole-like manner no matter if they’re in the store, on the sidewalk, or behind the wheel of a car.
Now, that 50% is actually somewhat deceptive, because it only applies when you’re trying to get over in a normal, non-asshole-like manner. Turn signals work 100% of the time when someone zooms up and merges in at the last second when a highway splits or there’s a particulary crowded intersection that the signaller doesn’t have time to wait for. It boggles my mind that EVERY single time I’ve seen someone avoid the line and zoom to the front, causing more backup and wasted time for everyone except the offender, the person in front will basically bend over and let the asshole in front of them. Why?!?! Why do they do this?? Why wait for 10 minutes in stop & go traffic only to let an ass in at the last second? It just causes more stop & go traffic behind you, making everything worse. UGH.
My GOD I hate that. I swear that there’s a Flanders permanently at the front of any merging lane. What actually happens, if you watch closely, is that often several people will (quite rightly) shut the queue-jumper out, and only when some idiot takes ‘pity’ on them do they get in. But they still manage to get ahead (oooh, all of 30 seconds ahead) of the dozens of people now secretly hoping to see a certain overpowered vehicle become, ummmm, overpowered
There was an on-ramp I used to use that came from a surface street. The right lane was for the freeway only, the left was the travel lane. It was common for these assholes to zoom up to the place where ramp started and try to push in, not only being obnoxious but blocking the other lane. I have a happy ending - the cops figured this out, hid just beyond it, and grabbed these jerks, which solved the problem for a few weeks, at least.
Attention whore that he is…he will be saddened that someone forgot who Crunchy Frog was… :eek:
I’m sure that it doesn’t count when you’re a legend in your own mind right?
No, I know who he is; I’d just forgotten that you two were together. And surely he’s a legend in other people’s minds too, right? Or shouldn’t he be encouraged?