Re: What is it with some drivers?!
I have been fortunate that I have not had any bad experiences with other drives -- until two weeks ago. Since then, things have been crazy.
I was leaving a parking lot at a hospital two weeks ago, turning right. I stopped for less than two seconds to make sure there was no traffic from the left, and some pinhead in an Infinity lays on the horn. Stupid thing is that he wasn't even turning right; he was turning left, and there were two lanes, one for each direction. Later that day, I was crossing the parking lot from Wal-Mart to Tim Horton's, and there was a lot of traffic. I was driving straight through, and had a stop sign. A Dodge Ram was facing me, also with a stop sign. I was driving forward, he was turning to cross in front of me. When the traffic cleared, I went forward, and so did he, even though I had the right of way. Then he has the nerve to flip me off. What a moron.
The idiot thing I have noticed drivers doing the past week is trying to pull around me on the right shoulder when I stop because someone in front of me is turning across traffic. If it was bumper-to-bumper, and we would be stopped for five minutes, I could understand that. I would probably go around the person, too. But in all three instances in the past week, I only made a rolling stop. By the time the person has turned, and I start to proceed, I notice someone coming up on the right. In all three instances, I stepped on it. There was no way I was going to let them get anything out of their idiotic behavour. Fortunately, in two of the instances, since they were now pulled over, other traffic pulled in front of them, and they got knocked even further back.
Maybe karma is making up for lost time in my situation. Who knows?
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