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This happened two days ago.
Incident One
I was stepping out to get some lunch and then hit up the grocery store to get the makings for dinner for the next day. So I leave the house, and head toward the Nawlins Chicken that I've been going to for the past decade. I'm in the right lane as I approach a traffic light-- this intersection does not have a dedicated right turn lane, so things can get slowed up a bit if you're in the right lane.
Car in front of me makes a right turn, so I'm essentially stopped waiting for them to finish. As they do, I start moving again-- and have to stop because BOTH the oncoming left-turn lane AND the right-turn lane from the other flow of traffic, have cars trying to make their turns, seemingly assuming that I was also turning at the light.
I slow down, but am still entering the intersection-- and I see that Left Turn is still trying to make the turn, albeit slowly, expecting me to stop and let them go through. I do not, as I have the right of way.
I head onward, shaking my head and muttering about the stupidity.
Incident Two
So I hit up Nawlins Chicken, which is in a little shopping center. I park in the lot of the center so I can enjoy my lunch, and then prepare to head back out. I'm moving up the service lane in the center toward a street exit, most of the traffic of which turns right to come to a stop light. As I'm approaching, there's a car at the street exit, preparing to turn right.
There is also another car preparing to leave a parking area, waiting at a stop line to make a left turn to go to the street exit. It's this car which starts to move forward as the car at the exit departs-- and then has to stop abruptly when it suddenly notices that I'm there, and I'm still in motion.
I stop at the street exit, then make my turn, and mutter a bit more aggravatedly about it happening twice in one day.
Incident Three
I'm now heading more or less back the way I came, as the grocery store I prefer is in the opposite direction from Nawlins Chicken. I pass the traffic light from Incident One, and then past a bigger traffic light intersection. At this time, I'm in the left lane.
After I move through the intersection, at a decent (but not excessive) clip, I see an SUV at a side street ahead decide to make its left turn. And it's moving quickly enough that I know it's not going to stop at the break in the median to wait for an opening, and also that if I don't do something, I'm going to plow into them.
So I quickly move over to the right lane, honking on the way, as-- sure enough-- they reach the lane to which they'd been turning about the same time as I would have reached that same point.
SUV driver does not acknowledge it, and I end up cussing up a storm in my car as I finish the drive to the grocery store.
Incident One
I was stepping out to get some lunch and then hit up the grocery store to get the makings for dinner for the next day. So I leave the house, and head toward the Nawlins Chicken that I've been going to for the past decade. I'm in the right lane as I approach a traffic light-- this intersection does not have a dedicated right turn lane, so things can get slowed up a bit if you're in the right lane.
Car in front of me makes a right turn, so I'm essentially stopped waiting for them to finish. As they do, I start moving again-- and have to stop because BOTH the oncoming left-turn lane AND the right-turn lane from the other flow of traffic, have cars trying to make their turns, seemingly assuming that I was also turning at the light.
I slow down, but am still entering the intersection-- and I see that Left Turn is still trying to make the turn, albeit slowly, expecting me to stop and let them go through. I do not, as I have the right of way.
I head onward, shaking my head and muttering about the stupidity.
Incident Two
So I hit up Nawlins Chicken, which is in a little shopping center. I park in the lot of the center so I can enjoy my lunch, and then prepare to head back out. I'm moving up the service lane in the center toward a street exit, most of the traffic of which turns right to come to a stop light. As I'm approaching, there's a car at the street exit, preparing to turn right.
There is also another car preparing to leave a parking area, waiting at a stop line to make a left turn to go to the street exit. It's this car which starts to move forward as the car at the exit departs-- and then has to stop abruptly when it suddenly notices that I'm there, and I'm still in motion.
I stop at the street exit, then make my turn, and mutter a bit more aggravatedly about it happening twice in one day.
Incident Three
I'm now heading more or less back the way I came, as the grocery store I prefer is in the opposite direction from Nawlins Chicken. I pass the traffic light from Incident One, and then past a bigger traffic light intersection. At this time, I'm in the left lane.
After I move through the intersection, at a decent (but not excessive) clip, I see an SUV at a side street ahead decide to make its left turn. And it's moving quickly enough that I know it's not going to stop at the break in the median to wait for an opening, and also that if I don't do something, I'm going to plow into them.
So I quickly move over to the right lane, honking on the way, as-- sure enough-- they reach the lane to which they'd been turning about the same time as I would have reached that same point.
SUV driver does not acknowledge it, and I end up cussing up a storm in my car as I finish the drive to the grocery store.
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