Yet another pop quiz

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Situation:

You are in the right-most lane of a busy street. It happens to be the only lane from which you can make a right turn onto another busy street.

The light has just turned green but you are stuck behind a bus with its lights flashing, which has stopped to drop off a couple passengers. Do you:

A). Patiently wait for the bus to drop off the passengers and ensure they're a safe distance away before it starts to move, or

B). Begin to back up toward one Irving Patrick Freleigh, who is in the car directly behind you and cannot back up himself because he's got another car right behind him, somehow manage to back up enough to swerve around the bus into the next lane over, zoom past the bus, and then make your right turn from the wrong lane approximately five seconds before the bus turns off its flashers and starts to move again.

If you chose B...well, if nothing else I thank you for giving me something to post about. My only sorrow is that you couldn't manage to ass-end a gas truck somewhere down the road.

[Food Lady]

I have totally seen people do this. I blame the lack of braincells on too much alcohol.

[dalesys]

I'd call it egohaul poisoning.

[blas]

Seen it before with garbage trucks and school busses as well.

[dragon_wings]

As a rider of public transit, I see this all the freaking time. But then again Baltimore drivers are some of the worst I've ever seen. I'm so glad I moved here knowing full well I'd be using public transit.

[protege]

As a rider of public transit, I see this all the freaking time.

Happens here too...mainly because people are so damn impatient. But, I can see their point though--some buses just annoy the hell out of me. The 56C is a prime example. That thing stops at *every* corner in Hazelwood, even though nobody gets on or off there. As soon as it stops, people make a beeline for the passing lane, in an attempt to get around. Some mornings, there are accidents when people attempt that. So glad I no longer have to drive through that neighborhood in the morning

[EricKei]

Another bit of fun to potentially compound his literal crimes...

Is it even legal to pass a stopped bus where you live? In some areas, you can't pass a stopped SCHOOL bus with its lights on/stop signs out but city buses are OK, in other areas, both count.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Actually, I'm wondering if this was the illegal right turn in front of a bus, which decals on the backs of the buses in my city warn about.

[dalesys]

Actually, I'm wondering if this was the illegal right turn in front of a bus, which decals on the backs of the buses in my city warn about.

But judge, they told me how to do it on the back of the bus!



No kid. You're supposed to do it IN the back of the bus... and not get caught!

[EricKei]

they told me how to do it on the back

Well, this scofflaw was certainly was a rogue, and, as we all know: rogues do it from behind