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Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Bad Drivers

I have an issue with bad drivers. Really, I have an issue with incredibly bad drivers. Here's an example. I was driving to work this morning and was downtown, on a 4 lane one-way street heading south. I was in the 2nd lane from the left, and there was a car slightly ahead of me, in the 3rd lane from the left. At an intersection with another one way street, which ran west, which was left-to-right as I was driving, the guy next to me proceeded to turn left into on-coming traffic. This bold move meant he turned right in front of me, with no blinker. And when I laid on the horn he didn't stop, slow down or anything. He just kept cutting across my bow and heading the wrong way down a one-way street.

Come on, picture this in your mind. Seriously, try it. You're driving down the street and a car turns left right in front of you, cuts across 3 lanes of traffic, to drive the wrong way down a one-way street. Let's figure out how many stupid moves this was. One, turned with no signal. Two, turned from what was effectively the 3rd lane. Three, turned onto a one-way street heading the wrong way. Fourth, despite being honked at really loudly, didn't so much as acknowledge any of these bad moves.

Let me put a cherry on top of this. A police officer was standing on the side of the street one block up. He didn't so much as bat an eye at this rogue maneuver.

Other bad moves that I have an issue with include: when turning left, the driver swerves the car right initially as if he were driving an extended length fire truck or tractor-trailer; riding up one's tailpipe when someone is making a right turn; and, sitting idle most of the time through a protected left turn, then darting out to make the turn at the last second leaving those cars behind you to wait through another light cycle. This is by no means an exhaustive list.

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