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Journal nizo's Journal: Dear retarded drivers of this city (Monday rant for all!) 17

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If you come to a busy street and you are retarded enough to make a left turn, keep in mind that everyone on said busy street has the right of way; I don't care how long you have been waiting at your stop sign, you can't pull out and impede the flow of traffic. This isn't a four-way stop where everyone takes turns morons; you have a stop sign for a reason. You also can't pull into the middle of the street and block people who are making a left turn; remember that whole right-of-way thing? Not only are you doing something incredibly stupid and dangerous, but it is also illegal. Please go hand in your license until you have taken driving 101 and are capable of obeying the traffic laws.

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  • Ever notice how something so simple ends up being so difficult. That's why whenever I read a story about "flying cars" I cringe- these people are having a hard enough time without throwing a z-axis at them.
    • Yeah, I can't imagine how many people would get tangled in wires, crash into buildings, or just plain smash people by landing on them if they had flying cars. Heck I don't know if I would feel safe driving one, and I am a pretty paranoid driver. Imagine a reckless teenager or a person who has issues with road rage driving (flying?) a flying car.
      • It'ss called natural selection .
        My wife has been driving 10 years and has never had an accident.
        My Grandfather has been driving for neigh on 50 years .. never once been involved in an acident....

        I see about 3 acidents a week if I am in town a lot.

        Thus my conclusion is that Driving lessons and tests are wholy insufficent
  • In those instances, I'm not sure why people insist making every turn that is possible during light traffic during heavy traffic. It's like they are so freakin' simple and hardwired that they figure that, "well, yesterday I could do that turn, so's I should be able to do it now." and are unable or unwilling to adapt.

    There are times when the traffic will just be too heavy. Well then, just pretend there's a "no left turn sign," make a right, then a U. Much less stressful.
  • you have never lived in Massachusetts where the term "Drive Defensively" is coupled with "MThe best defense is a good offense".
    • You guys have those weird clove-hitch things (turn right to make a left turn) out there. I remember seeing the sign for one of those for the first time and thinking, wtf is that? Though actually they look like they work great if you have a busy street and no room for a left turn lane.
      • You're thinking of "jug handles", which are extremely popular in New Jersey. Massachusetts like to use rotaries.
        • I think it's funny when non-natives attempt to drive in MA and are forced to go through them. They always wind up panicking. Guys, it's just a rotary, it's not that bad.
          • It is more intimidating if you don't know where to get off. And how to get on. Don't even pretend that cars in the rotary have the right of way. See my earlier comment about defensive driving. :) And, to the non-natives advantage, 9 times out of 10, they're driving a rental. :) :) :)

            Remember PJ O'Rourke with the essential guide to irresponsible driving: "There's lots of argument about what kind of car drives best. Some say a front-wheel drive car. Some say a rear-wheel drive. I say it's a rental car. Th
        • Ahh, yeah you are right, I think I saw that in NJ. I remember seeing traffic circles in NC (especially small towns with no traffic lights) which I assume is what you are calling a rotary. Loads of fun when everyone is in a hurry :-) (especially when you get someone going the wrong way in one)
      • I take a jug handle just before I get to work. I suspect it's there to filter out all the traffic going that way (there's AFB a few minutes down the road)
  • ... they really help balance the city budget.

    We have huge signs that say "DO NOT BLOCK INTERSECTION" here in Florida. And I mean huge, as in, you cannot possibly miss the sign. They're practically visible from space.

    During rush hour there is a really good chance that people who disregard the sign (and the law) will find that unmarked police vehicles aren't always that easy to spot.

    And it never fails to bring a smile to my face when some soccer mom decides that she's oh so special that the law doesn't apply
    • Heh.

      Sadly our police coverage in this city is seriously lacking. What we need is some way to "tag" cars that do dumb crap like this. Maybe some kind of IR gun (something along the lines of laser tag) that everyone gets to use. You get two tags per day, or maybe the more you tag, the less your tags are "worth" (or maybe, if you tag all the time, you have to take anger management classes :-D ) The consequences of getting tagged alot would have to be considered, but I suspect scary drives would get tagged much

  • ive always found it easier to just take a right then a u-turn down the road.

    Now if the city would just do something about all those blind spots... I got into an accident last week where I was taking a right onto wyoming and there was no way to see down the road because of a wall, and ended up clipping another driver while I was doing one of my avon routes. Then another coworker friend of mine got t-boned at a light while taking one of those "left once the light turns yellow" turns and somebody ran the light
    • Yeah; there are way too many places where walls/bushes/etc block street visibility here in town. We need a hotline to call in stuff like this (like the pothole hotline that some cities have). I pity people who have cars with long hoods....


      As for left turns, I very rarely turn on yellow, since everyone runs red lights in this town. I swear every time I drive by San Mateo and Montgomery some idiot gets his picture taken with the new redlight camera.

  • Most other drivers out there are idiots.

    How about the ones that don't know who has the right of way on a freeway? They come down the on-ramp and just 'merge' into traffic without looking in their mirrors or over their shoulder, as if the traffic that was already on the freeway didn't exist. In some areas they've actually spent money on installing "Yield" signs on every on-ramp because of this, because the concept of an implied yield is too difficult for people to grasp.

    Not that people know what yield mea
  • you drive on the left side of the road, but you make turns from the wrong side. It'd be like making a left turn from the right lane. It's super confusing.

    Not that that had anything to do with your post, but so far I've never seen worse drivers than the ones in Sacramento, California. I've been across the US several times, across Australia, New Zealand and rode on the back of a Lambretta scooter in Tokyo traffic. But still, the worse drivers are Sacramento.

    I don't know if that's because I live here so

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