turn signals

[BMEUPSCOTTY]

Originally Posted by Bass Babe

What about the "Cape Special"? The person in front of you comes to a dead stop for no apparent reason...oh, yeah, they stopped to let a person without the right of way pull out onto the road. Sometimes courtesy spills overboard into idiocy.

OOhhh, you hit one of my biggest peeves. "Courtesy". Way back when we started driving, they created the right of way rules so that traffic would keep flowing. It absolutely kills me when I am approaching a four way stop, I am still moving, and there is one other vehicle already stopped. Instead of just going, they sit there and wait until I come to a complete stop. Either they don't think I am going to stop (which I doubt, cause I approach slowly, downshifting) or they are waiting for me to wave them through. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY DUMBASS!!! GO ALREADY! Why do you think when I am approaching the same intersection and estimate that it is going to be a "tie" between me and one or more cars I stop a few feet short of the line so I will be the first to go?!?

[pmueller]

Unfortunately, there's only one turn signal being used these days.

The driving situation is really a bad situation. So many people die on our roads needlessly. For whatever reason.

[Eliot]

This thread got me wound up.

I'm sick and tired of all the trash I see along our roads and in parking lots.

I had a car in front of me in Taunton the other night that opened a window and threw two bags of fast food wrapers out the window onto Rt 140.

I proceeded to follow them closely as I was going to have a "discussion" with them the next time they stopped. My wife was with me and realized what I was thinking.......scary in it's own right....., and convinced me to just drive home.

The next time this happens and she is not with me I'm gonna follow them home, wait till they go inside and cut all four valve stems. SHMG.

[Pete_G]

Originally Posted by BMEUPSCOTTY

OOhhh, you hit one of my biggest peeves. "Courtesy". Way back when we started driving, they created the right of way rules so that traffic would keep flowing. It absolutely kills me when I am approaching a four way stop, I am still moving, and there is one other vehicle already stopped. Instead of just going, they sit there and wait until I come to a complete stop. Either they don't think I am going to stop (which I doubt, cause I approach slowly, downshifting) or they are waiting for me to wave them through. YOU HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY DUMBASS!!! GO ALREADY! Why do you think when I am approaching the same intersection and estimate that it is going to be a "tie" between me and one or more cars I stop a few feet short of the line so I will be the first to go?!?

I'm right there with you Bass Babe and BMEUPSCOTTY, that one REALLY ticks me off too. Let's make ALL the vehicles on the road stop and then do the one thing that comsumes the MOST gas possible, accelerate from a stop...

And turn signals do seem to have become increasingly rare thanks to various distractions and/or simply poor driving skills. I've been using my horn more generously in "no turn signal" incidents.