Just had an awesome driving experience...
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Went to go pick up dinner. From my direction, you have to make a U turn to get into the parking lot (center divider and no left turn lane opening like normal :confused:). So, a few months ago, this particular area was ummm "upgraded" where you have the center divider then two left turn lanes and then another divider separating it from the go straight lanes: |XY|1234 Where | = a concrete divider 1234 = 4 go straight lanes X = the left / U-turn lane Y = the left turn lane I was in the X lane like a good citizen :). This, um... "lady" was in the 1 position and decided that she needed to get into that shopping center and couldn't be bothered to go up the street a bit more and make a legal U-turn cuz she missed getting into the 2 left turn lanes. There were 2 cars ahead of me in the X lane, they went as normal, but this um... "lady" decided it was her turn and tried to make her U-turn from the 1 lane totally cutting me off and almost causing an accident. So I start honking at her... She actually flips me off *HARD* :). You know, cuz the world revolves around her and the city engineer was a *TOTAL* jerk for inconveniencing her by putting a concrete divider in her way. Now, don't get me wrong, I'd have to agree with her that the area is a total mess now with all the weird concrete barriers though.
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Went to go pick up dinner. From my direction, you have to make a U turn to get into the parking lot (center divider and no left turn lane opening like normal :confused:). So, a few months ago, this particular area was ummm "upgraded" where you have the center divider then two left turn lanes and then another divider separating it from the go straight lanes: |XY|1234 Where | = a concrete divider 1234 = 4 go straight lanes X = the left / U-turn lane Y = the left turn lane I was in the X lane like a good citizen :). This, um... "lady" was in the 1 position and decided that she needed to get into that shopping center and couldn't be bothered to go up the street a bit more and make a legal U-turn cuz she missed getting into the 2 left turn lanes. There were 2 cars ahead of me in the X lane, they went as normal, but this um... "lady" decided it was her turn and tried to make her U-turn from the 1 lane totally cutting me off and almost causing an accident. So I start honking at her... She actually flips me off *HARD* :). You know, cuz the world revolves around her and the city engineer was a *TOTAL* jerk for inconveniencing her by putting a concrete divider in her way. Now, don't get me wrong, I'd have to agree with her that the area is a total mess now with all the weird concrete barriers though.
I'd say that intersection is fairly well designed; it's the lady who's defective. There's a word for people like her, starting with a 'c' and ending with a 't'. It's not a very nice word, of course, but her kind don't deserve anything nicer than being disemboweled with a dull, rusty chainsaw.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I'd say that intersection is fairly well designed; it's the lady who's defective. There's a word for people like her, starting with a 'c' and ending with a 't'. It's not a very nice word, of course, but her kind don't deserve anything nicer than being disemboweled with a dull, rusty chainsaw.
Will Rogers never met me.
LOL. Yup. I thought the same thing. She wasn't very bright either. After doing that, she goes into the parking lot? Had I been a psycho, I could have just followed her into the parking lot and attacked her or vandalized her car or something! Hasn't she ever heard of road rage? A single lady by herself pulling that kind of stuff? Once when I was younger (and dumber), somebody cut me off in traffic, so I played the ol' "I'm following you now" game with them. The guy got super freaked out, so I stopped LOL. I'm not going to cause an accident or anything. This lady, I kind of wish she ran her shiny new Mercedes into the light pole and wrecked it, but then my dinner would have gotten cold waiting for the police to come :(. On the other hand, my entertainment for the evening would have been watching her trying to explain how her making a left turn from behind a concrete divider was my fault.
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I'd say that intersection is fairly well designed; it's the lady who's defective. There's a word for people like her, starting with a 'c' and ending with a 't'. It's not a very nice word, of course, but her kind don't deserve anything nicer than being disemboweled with a dull, rusty chainsaw.
Will Rogers never met me.
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LOL. Yup. I thought the same thing. She wasn't very bright either. After doing that, she goes into the parking lot? Had I been a psycho, I could have just followed her into the parking lot and attacked her or vandalized her car or something! Hasn't she ever heard of road rage? A single lady by herself pulling that kind of stuff? Once when I was younger (and dumber), somebody cut me off in traffic, so I played the ol' "I'm following you now" game with them. The guy got super freaked out, so I stopped LOL. I'm not going to cause an accident or anything. This lady, I kind of wish she ran her shiny new Mercedes into the light pole and wrecked it, but then my dinner would have gotten cold waiting for the police to come :(. On the other hand, my entertainment for the evening would have been watching her trying to explain how her making a left turn from behind a concrete divider was my fault.
SledgeHammer01 wrote:
Once when I was younger (and dumber), somebody cut me off in traffic, so I played the ol' "I'm following you now" game with them.
Those were the days... A guy cut me off on the freeway in a (then) remote part of Southern California ( not yet a fully Socialist country known as the PRC). Since he nearly killed me doing so, and knowing I had a full tank of gas, I pinned the SOB in the left lane for about 100 miles, then at the last offramp before hitting open desert with no more offramps for dozens of miles, I cut right and exited the freeway. I'd probably go to prison for that today, but it was enormously satisfying at the time.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Went to go pick up dinner. From my direction, you have to make a U turn to get into the parking lot (center divider and no left turn lane opening like normal :confused:). So, a few months ago, this particular area was ummm "upgraded" where you have the center divider then two left turn lanes and then another divider separating it from the go straight lanes: |XY|1234 Where | = a concrete divider 1234 = 4 go straight lanes X = the left / U-turn lane Y = the left turn lane I was in the X lane like a good citizen :). This, um... "lady" was in the 1 position and decided that she needed to get into that shopping center and couldn't be bothered to go up the street a bit more and make a legal U-turn cuz she missed getting into the 2 left turn lanes. There were 2 cars ahead of me in the X lane, they went as normal, but this um... "lady" decided it was her turn and tried to make her U-turn from the 1 lane totally cutting me off and almost causing an accident. So I start honking at her... She actually flips me off *HARD* :). You know, cuz the world revolves around her and the city engineer was a *TOTAL* jerk for inconveniencing her by putting a concrete divider in her way. Now, don't get me wrong, I'd have to agree with her that the area is a total mess now with all the weird concrete barriers though.
Six lanes? And how many does the opposite side have, and the intersecting road? SO this junction is probably what, 150 ft by 150, and she didn't have enough space to manoeuvre safely? :) Don't ever come to Europe. We have roads so narrow that GRASS grows down the centre of them, and the speed limit is 60 mph! Intersections so small if you are centimetres out you impinge someone else and get honked at. :)
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Went to go pick up dinner. From my direction, you have to make a U turn to get into the parking lot (center divider and no left turn lane opening like normal :confused:). So, a few months ago, this particular area was ummm "upgraded" where you have the center divider then two left turn lanes and then another divider separating it from the go straight lanes: |XY|1234 Where | = a concrete divider 1234 = 4 go straight lanes X = the left / U-turn lane Y = the left turn lane I was in the X lane like a good citizen :). This, um... "lady" was in the 1 position and decided that she needed to get into that shopping center and couldn't be bothered to go up the street a bit more and make a legal U-turn cuz she missed getting into the 2 left turn lanes. There were 2 cars ahead of me in the X lane, they went as normal, but this um... "lady" decided it was her turn and tried to make her U-turn from the 1 lane totally cutting me off and almost causing an accident. So I start honking at her... She actually flips me off *HARD* :). You know, cuz the world revolves around her and the city engineer was a *TOTAL* jerk for inconveniencing her by putting a concrete divider in her way. Now, don't get me wrong, I'd have to agree with her that the area is a total mess now with all the weird concrete barriers though.
Many years ago, in a town in Surrey, England called Haslemere, I was riding my motorcycle and came across a rather determined driver. Imagine the situation.
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Six lanes? And how many does the opposite side have, and the intersecting road? SO this junction is probably what, 150 ft by 150, and she didn't have enough space to manoeuvre safely? :) Don't ever come to Europe. We have roads so narrow that GRASS grows down the centre of them, and the speed limit is 60 mph! Intersections so small if you are centimetres out you impinge someone else and get honked at. :)
The other side has 3 or 4 lanes and the intersecting road has 2 or 3. They did all these upgrades and expansions because this is a street that runs next to a former, rather large marine corp base that has been abandoned. They're now building it out with homes. I wouldn't be surprised if they can fit a couple of thousand.
