I have some driving pet peeves and feel the need to get them off my chest. This seems like the best place to do so.
1. When you get to a 4-way stop, don't try to "be nice" by letting someone go before you. If it is your turn, take it otherwise everyone just sits there wondering why you aren't going. Then people start trying to go out of turn. I've seen accidents happen because someone was "trying to be nice". Take your turn, that's the nice thing to do.
2. In a parking lot, when a row has a "one way only" arrow and parking spots are all slanted one way... if you drive down the row the wrong way, you shouldn't honk at the people driving the correct way just because they're in your way. Follow the signs. Nobody will get hurt.
3. The gas station at Sam's Club. OH MY GOSH. When it says "exit only, DO NOT ENTER" read the freaking sign. Don't face the wrong direction, and hit someone (seriously, I saw this happen this week) as you are pulling in/out of the gas station. Seriously. The nozzles have cords long enough to reach all around your car if you pull up to a pump that is on the wrong side of your car.
Okay. I feel better.
4 comments:
Oh, I hate that stuff too! What really, really makes me mad is when I'm trying to turn left across two lanes and another person facing me is also trying to go left, I can't see around them, they can't see around me, and they wave at me angrily to go, as if I can believe them that their isn't a car coming from behind them. I know a girl who got in an accident because a driver assured her it was safe to go when it wasn't. No, they just wanted her out of the way.
Agree-agree. Looks like Texas drivers could give Massachusetts drivers a run for their money! :)
Ha ha, Marci! You crack me up! It's a good thing you don't live in Utah anymore, then your list of pet peeves would get a whole lot longer! Don't get me started... ;)
I totaled a car when I was about 19, when a bus driver was sticking out WAY far into the right lane of traffic, and motioned me to go ahead and make my right turn into that lane of traffic. Turns out someone was REALLY ticked that the bus was in "his" lane, trying to turn left, and he switched to the inner lane and then CRASHED back into his outer lane, INTO ME! I will never believe another driver again--even so many years later! Sarah, you can feel my pain!
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