There are a few things that bug me big time, one of those things is when people don't use their turn signal (aka blinker) when making a turn.
The worst is when someone wants to pull over to the side of the road but refuses to let the drivers behind him that he is doing so. So instead of signaling, he just pulls over by breaking and swerving to the side of the road (hopefully he moves the car to the side of the road).
But I find it annoying when someone is making a right turn into a perpendicular street (the street I am making a left out of) and they don't signal. It is nice to know if you can make a possible left turn, as the car on your left, is making a right turn.
It also bugs me when someone in front of you is making a right or left into their parking driveway and does not signal.
Finally, one that doesn't signal when switching lanes or making a turn onto a street at all.
It really bothers me. It is just common courtesy, forget the law.
Comments
Why Give Up the Element of Surprise?
Posted by: Hawaii SEO | October 31, 2006 12:33 PM
Barry - you are right - this drives me nuts as well. My favourite example of this type of spurious behaviour is when you are waiting to make a left turn. There is a car coming towards you from the left side. So you wait for him to come. Then he slows down and turns right into the same road you are turning into. In effect, he is wasting your time since had he put on his signal, I could have turned out 25 seconds earlier...
Posted by: Caydel | October 31, 2006 12:40 PM
Caydel, yes, that is annoying. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | October 31, 2006 12:59 PM
I have a friend named Angela who hates this as well. One day she was driving down the street and decided she couldn't take it anymore so she pulled up next to one of these blinkerless offenders and motioned for the woman to roll down her window. Angela then proceeded to tell the woman "Hey, you have something on the front of your car." The woman looked paniced and asked "Oh my gosh! Is it an animal?" Angela then replied "No. It's your F'ing blinker b*tch. Use it!" and drove away... LMAO!
Posted by: Audrey | October 31, 2006 1:07 PM
Hate that too. I live in Italy, and here people are quite rude. They sometimes don't blink on purpose because they feel like "being a fool" if they blink. They need to show they superiority by not blinking. "See how cool i am, i can turn without blinking". And if one blinks, they looka at that like ... look at that wimp, he is blinking lime my grandma does.
Posted by: Mario | December 26, 2006 8:43 AM