Bad Driver
Since I haven’t really blogged a blog in a while, I thought I’d tell you about my drive home, and include some pictures for your viewing pleasure.
To get from home to work, I have to take a road known as State Street. This is an odd street in Columbus which runs diagonally through part of town. It’s a main street, and for a good chunk of it has a division which looks much like this:
Now, this style of roadway isn’t anything new, at least not to me. But, perhaps it fools some people. Here’s the situation I got behind on the way home:
Can you see what’s wrong in this picture?
Yes, the bad driver (whom I used different words to refer to at the time of the incident) isn’t using the turn lane in the median. Instead, SHE was sort of in the turn lane and sort of in the normal lane, blocking all traffic behind her. This is what the turn lane is supposed to help prevent…traffic congestion.
I won’t go on about this particular person, since I already both honked and profanitied her thoroughly (not that she could hear me, as she was too busy paying attention to the road and her bad driving skills).
Luckily, traffic wasn’t heavy on my side and I was able to swing around her, but not until after I had to completely come to a stop behind her in somewhat of a hurried fashion as I wasn’t anticipating her stopping halfway in the middle of the lane.
Argh.
April 13th, 2006 at 5:48 am
that happens a lot in beanfield. they turned main street into a road like that, maybe 8 years ago, except there’s only one lane going each direction. i’ve come up behind people that aren’t even partially in the turn lane, completely in the reg. lane, turning left. i’ve also seen people use the middle lane as a passing lane.
April 13th, 2006 at 7:31 am
people are fucking retards. my dad is one of them. If I could make pitchers like celeb I would make a drawering to illustrate one thing he always used to do. I’ll see if I can describe it…
One of the exits to our subdivision exited onto a semi-busy street. There was an entrance to another subdivision a couple hundred yards south of the entrance to ours. So, if you turned right out of our subdivision there was another entrance right away. Since the street was semi busy there was a right turn lane for both subdivisions. Since they were close, the right turn lane to get into the one to the south of us went all the way to the exit of ours.
If you knew what you were doing, you could just pull out without a care for traffic and then use that turn lane as a merge lane. My dad was not one of these people. He is a slower is always better type person. He would wait until it was clear, and then pull out into the turn lane, then merge to the left when the turn lane ended, at the other subdivisions entrance.
You can imagine the problems this caused when normal people would come up behind him. They would assume he was turning. If they wanted to turn into that subdivision they’d slow down to get behind him. But he always wanted them to keep going so he could merge behind them in the left lane. So, as soon as the other car slowed to get behind him in the turn lane, he’d slow to let them pass in the left lane.
blood boils at the memories
My mom and I would both yell at him every time he did this.
Assveal, sasquatch calls those dual turn lanes in the middle a ’suicide’ lane. That’s what I call them now, cause it sounds mo betz morbid.
April 13th, 2006 at 11:19 am
My fav. is when people do get into the suicide lane properly, but do it 500+’ before where they want to turn. So if they’re in the opposite direction and I see them there, I’m like “ok, where they want to turn must be before where I need to turn” so I get in it maybe 200′ before my turn. Then they keep coming…and coming…and it turns into a game of chicken. Yee haw.