heyzeus wrote:I swear, turn signals must be optional equipment on most cars. I can't wait til the NRA gets tactical car-mounted surface to air missiles legalized.
I want to customize my turn signal to coordinate a spray of bullets into the lane I am about to occupy.
or more realistically - just do the turn signal LED lights up like a gun and emitt little puffs of smoke. Inside have a little assault rifle sound that goes off for the indicator.....encourages safe use of signals -AND reminds the driver with the small pecker of his God-Given 2d Amendment rights.
Molly wrote:100% agree with this rant and will add, if I slow down and let you merge at least give me the thank you wave.
I get annoyed when people don't give the thank you wave, but then I realize that I'm not some benevolent ruler of the road who demands tribute for the kindness of letting someone in.
I don't mean that to sound snarky at all. It's just how I come to grips with people not acknowledging how super awesome I am as a human being for letting them in.
Molly wrote:100% agree with this rant and will add, if I slow down and let you merge at least give me the thank you wave.
I get annoyed when people don't give the thank you wave, but then I realize that I'm not some benevolent ruler of the road who demands tribute for the kindness of letting someone in.
I don't mean that to sound snarky at all. It's just how I come to grips with people not acknowledging how super awesome I am as a human being for letting them in.
That is exactly how I see myself, and I demand tribute. You drive in Boston, you acknowledge the fact that I let you live (or merge, whatever).
This is why I think it needs to be much harder to get a drivers license. As it stands now basically anyone can get one. Why? You are driving around a two ton guided misses. It should be pretty damn hard to get.
I also think that with the new harder licensing system it should be required that cars can go 0-60 in under six seconds, and back to zero in 120ft. Too many times on an on ramp I get stuck behind some turd of a car who can barely get up to 60 in 20 seconds and that slows everyone down and makes merging much more dangerous and difficult.
Worse yet is the ass hat in some turd of a car 3 inches of my bumper. My car will brake from 60 to 0 in less then 100ft so basically in any instance where I have to stand on the brakes if an average car behind me is right on my ass I'm getting a trunk full of someones SUV.
lukethedrifter wrote:The thank you wave is especially awesome right before they get t-boned because you waved them into flowing traffic.
I have to admit, the one scenario where I'm a timid driver is when it's two lane traffic, you're looking to turn left, someone stops to give you a gap, but I'm always scared as [expletive] about the other lane of traffic.
This is a good rant, but needs to be appended to include the "I turn my signal on right as I start my turn" guy.
Because as I sit waiting to turn left, with my blinker on, I saw you slowing down approaching the same intersection. Yet you did not turn on your right blinker, so I had to assume you were going straight and that I needed to wait. Thankfully, as soon as you started your turn, you threw your signal on. Because hey, at that point I couldn't just see you turning.
The signal is to let me know that you will be turning, not that you are turning. You are in fact dumber than no turn signal at all guy.
