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07-30-2012, 04:24 PM
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I knew you weren't going to turn
So the other day I'm on my way to work, and waiting to turn left at a light. There were two cars in the right lane on the opposite side, and a ginormous SUV in the left lane, signaling left. But something told me he wasn't going to, so I hesitated for a second, rather than making my left turn. Good thing I did since he blew through the intersection, still with his signal on! Idiot. Had I gone, I probably would have ended up in the nearby parking lot, smashed to bits.
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07-30-2012, 04:28 PM
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Hey! No using your telepathy to save yourself, selfish bint! You use that for customers' whiny demands, ONLY.
(I'm glad you're okay.)
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07-30-2012, 05:32 PM
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Me too! I just kind of knew, maybe by the fact he wasn't really slowing down. Plus, that intersection has jsut enough of a dip, that if someone is coming from the oppositte direction, you sometimes can't see if anyone is behind them. So I tend to wait a second or two.
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07-31-2012, 04:36 AM
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Instincts can be very handy. Glad you're ok.
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08-01-2012, 11:17 AM
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I hate that. That's why I wait till I finally see their tires turning.
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08-01-2012, 11:36 AM
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Yeah, you can't rely on signals (or their lack) for anything nowadays... Sucks.
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08-01-2012, 04:20 PM
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Routinely I have the opposite problem. At the stop light where I turn left to get to the back road that takes me home I've lost count of the people going the other direction that don't signal that their turning right. If I don't have the protected green arrow I wait for a decent gap. Numerous times I'd have had time to turn before the other person. If they'd only signaled!
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08-10-2012, 09:20 PM
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Quote:
Quoth dragon_wings
Routinely I have the opposite problem. At the stop light where I turn left to get to the back road that takes me home I've lost count of the people going the other direction that don't signal that their turning right. If I don't have the protected green arrow I wait for a decent gap. Numerous times I'd have had time to turn before the other person. If they'd only signaled!
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My favourite turn signal story is some dumbass that was ahead of me once on my way to work.
Road is two lane (one in each direction) but at a particular intersection, when headed in our direction, it widened to have both a short left-turn lane, and the shoulder widened to give a right turn lane as well.
The guy was in the center lane (to go straight thru the intersection).
He had his left turn signal on.
He turned right.
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08-11-2012, 10:47 PM
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Quote:
Quoth LillFilly
I hate that. That's why I wait till I finally see their tires turning.
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I do that, too.
Sometimes, I get a douchnozzle behind me that starts honking at me to go. Look, bub, from where you are, 1) you can't necessarily see what I can and B) I'm the one in control of this vehicle. If you want to be an idiot with yours, go right ahead. I, however, don't feel like getting killed....
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08-12-2012, 05:47 PM
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Quote:
Quoth Pagan
I do that, too.
Sometimes, I get a douchnozzle behind me that starts honking at me to go. Look, bub, from where you are, 1) you can't necessarily see what I can and B) I'm the one in control of this vehicle. If you want to be an idiot with yours, go right ahead. I, however, don't feel like getting killed....
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Yep, I will decide whtn it's safe for me to go, and no amount of outside influence is going to change that.
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