Um, excuse me...

[laborcat]

My left green arrow trumps your right to turn right on red. Thank you.

And the fuckhead has the balls to slam his horn back at me and flip me off, then proceed to tailgate me on the highway for a mile and a half.

You would think that my already being in the intersection making said left hand turn would be warning enough that I had that green arrow.

[Andara Bledin]

I despise these people.

I get cut off by people turning right all the time while I have right of way on a left turn. The worst are the ones that turn right directly into the left lane (illegal here).

Slightly less sucky but no less annoying are the ones that turn right and into my way as I'm making a u-turn. Which is particularly difficult in my current car as the turning radius is wider than most streets. >_<

^-.-^

[blas]

No, it does not trump their god given right to turn right on red, it seems.

At least, that's the attitude where I live. I swear nearly everyone going right on red barely yields.

And the attitude where I live also is that unprotected basic green light means cars will keep going left and left and left despite people going straight having the right of way.

People are fucking ballsy and careless here.

[Kogarashi]

And the attitude where I live also is that unprotected basic green light means cars will keep going left and left and left despite people going straight having the right of way.

I think we have some drivers around these parts with the same mindset. No, not the ones who keep going left (though I did have a whole line of cars cut me off with a left turn when I had the straight green just because I let one through, due to not being able to fit on the other side of the intersection yet--you know, that whole no gridlocking thing?).

Specifically, on my way to pick my daughter up from school one afternoon (on foot), I watched someone going straight get confused on this. The light did protected lefts first, keeping the straight traffic stopped with a red. Then the straight traffic got its solid green, while the left turn lanes also got the solid (meaning they yield until there's room to go). Yet this one car in the straight lane, with the right of way and a solid green, just sat there as more and more cars turned left. Several people honked at her, but she didn't actually go until the oncoming left turn lane was empty, at which point her traffic signal went yellow. She went, but no one else behind her got to go.

[PepperElf]

I still remember pulling out of a special gas station in Virginia Beach. The gas station was at the center of a T-intersection and literally used the stop lights in order to leave.

I had the left turn green arrow but another car tried to cut me off with a right-on-red.

I didn't care that the sticker on her car was dark blue (Officer*). I still honked at her for trying to cut me off and took my turn.


* actually I think she was a spouse but it doesn't matter... rank does not equate into driving right of way. especially off base.

[AccountingDrone]

Not surprised. I got the wives of the CO and XO on the Miami cheesed off at me. They tried to push to get the wives club to go see a kiddy movie. Most of us didn't have kids of the age range the movie was for [think essentially Pound Puppy age] and it finally devolved to the argument of my husband is your husbands CO and I say we are going to see X movie. I stood up and told them that "Your husband may be my husbands boss, but you are not the one that got the commission and you are no better than anybody else in the group. Nobody but you wants to go see the movie, and we are not going to see that movie."

We ended up going to Lake Compounce and having fun. The 2 spoilsports sulked. Oddly their kids had a blast on the kiddy rides.

[pitmonkey]

What fun we have around here are the u-turns that peaple take from the left turn lane. The u-ies have the right of way and the right on red have to wait. Want to know how many near misses there are? And the kicker is that the ones doing the right on red get pissed at the u-ies. Also when you are waiting to be sure that no one is making a u-turn you get honked at for not turning.

[PepperElf]

Sometimes I honk back. I mean so what if they want to honk. i'm not going to break the law just because Mr. GrumpyPants is having a "hurry hissy" behind me.

Had someone honking at my bf the other day for not going when the light turned green - left hand turn without an arrow. Seriously there's not even special arrow-light for the left-turn lane, just the solid circle.. Perhaps Honky McHonker shouldn't be driving... if he doesn't know that • =/= ←... and that yes, my BF *WILL* let the oncoming traffic go first instead of turning in front of them and risking me in a Tbone collision.

[LewisLegion]

What I especially hate is the cars turning that cut into the turn lane. You know, full four way intersection, cars turning left drift into or even fully enter the left turn lane for the opposite direction before drifting over into their proper lane.

And if you're actually in a car there sitting and waiting at the line for your turn to go, they glare and correct their path to, god forbid, actually REMAIN in their lane...like you darted in front of them, even though you've been sitting still the whole time.

[Andara Bledin]

I used to get these people all the time on my old route home. I'd be left shaking my head at the nearly-half of every left turner to come from my right having to correct their path because they don't understand the concept of pulling straight forward as far as is reasonable, and then making the turn.

^-.-^

[PepperElf]

husband is your husbands CO

You know... sometimes I wonder how those ranked officers feel about their wives or husbands trying to pull rank like that... because sometimes that makes them look very bad.

I know of one story where an officer actually divorced his wife over how she acted at official gatherings. she would go off on how dumb the enlisted were etc, to the point where it made her husband look bad, and it was suggested that she would actually hurt his chances at promotion. Plus, he was former enlisted which she didn't know...

[AccountingDrone]

You know... sometimes I wonder how those ranked officers feel about their wives or husbands trying to pull rank like that... because sometimes that makes them look very bad.

I know of one story where an officer actually divorced his wife over how she acted at official gatherings. she would go off on how dumb the enlisted were etc, to the point where it made her husband look bad, and it was suggested that she would actually hurt his chances at promotion. Plus, he was former enlisted which she didn't know...

I tend to have very little patience with most military wives. They don't seem to want to actually help their husbands out. One guy on Rob's first boat had a seriously craptastic wife. When they got married she wanted a brand new car. She didnt care what kind, it had to be brand new 4 door sedan. We had just moved into a new apartment and had the furniture in, the kitchen was fully moved in but none of the shelf contents or decorative crap. The place was seriously babyproof. We invited them over for dinner and she about had a hissy fit over their toddler wandering around playing with some stuffed critters I had laying around that were there for my young at the time goddaughters amusement when they visited. No matter how much we kept telling her that there wasn't anything breakable in the living room at all and to let the sprog wander and play And then when dinner was served, she kept complaining that the roast chicken wasn't anything like Boston Market, and the mashed potatoes and gravy had lumps, and the creamed spinach wasn't anything like Boston Market ... it turns out that she didn't cook, they had takeout every evening And any time that Frank was late home by like 5 minutes she would be on the phone to me every 15 minutes or so asking if he was there because he wasn't home. Keeping in mind that the only time he had ever been over was the time we invited them over for dinner She kept poor Frank in debt - take out all the time, new car, house instead of housing unit, constant hours of long distance calls home to mommy every day ... and she was pretty typical.

No wonder there is a high divorce rate in the military. Most women are pretty much useless when the hubby is gone for months at a time. At least most women who think marrying a military guy is a great idea without thinking it through.

[blas]

I have a childhood pal who has always been a bossy, spoiled princess type.

She got knocked up by her bf who just enlisted and was fresh in boot camp. This chick had the nerve to keep trying to call him, even though he was, ya know, in basic training, only have certain times they can be "off" to take calls and do whatever......anyway, he won't answer, so she actually finds a phone number for Ft. McCoy (or whatever that place is, southern Wisconsin) and goes on a bossy, yammering bitch filled rant about how she needs to speak to him and WILL speak to him.

Nevermind she's yelling at a freaking government official, trying to give them orders on the phone.

Oh yeah, she was doing this in my parents' kitchen. I don't think my parents were able to keep straight faces the entire time.

[dragon_wings]

My bf is seriously considering the military at some point (his goal is by 25 or so to have served some time in the Rangers). If we're still together at that point I'll have had some real practice at not seeing or hearing from him for long stretches of time. I mean we've been together for 9 months and I have seen him for 8. :P Plus he went to Morocco for a month and a half and we couldn't talk. And we only talk a couple times a week as is (he has said I'm pretty much a guy's perfect girlfriend). Add to that my respect for the military (both parents served, dad's a Vietnam vet. And my bro is at West Point, even if he won't graduate. ). I'd have no patience for snotty military wives. :rollseyes:

[ADoyle90815]

I've seen accidents happen at a local intersection because someone turned right on a red light, just as someone had the green arrow and was making a perfectly legal U-turn. The arrow also has a sign next to it indicating that one can make a U-turn if necessary.

Because of that, if I'm the one turning right, I wait, and if someone honks, tough shit. After all, if I got into an accident because of being hit by someone making a legal U-turn, the accident is going to make the honker later than my waiting until it's safe to make that right turn.