Intersection idiots!

[dayll]

This happens to me all the time - I'm at an intersection and am waiting for traffic to clear to make a left turn. I have my left turn signal on of course. An oncoming car comes at me from the other direction with no turn signal on. I wait for them to go by - then the idiot makes a left or a right! Is it laziness, rudeness, stupidity, or what? Can a person be so lazy as to not want to reach over a matter of inches and hit his or her turn signal lever? AHHHHHHHG! thanks - dayll

[Shindig]

  dayll said:

This happens to me all the time - I'm at an intersection and am waiting for traffic to clear to make a left turn. I have my left turn signal on of course. An oncoming car comes at me from the other direction with no turn signal on. I wait for them to go by - then the idiot makes a left or a right! Is it laziness, rudeness, stupidity, or what? Can a person be so lazy as to not want to reach over a matter of inches and hit his or her turn signal lever? AHHHHHHHG! thanks - dayll

I read this and said, "You must be in Los Angeles." Then I saw your location confirming this. In my experience, the more expensive the car, the less likely it is that it came with signals. I haven't driven beyond Southern California, so I don't know how often this occurs elsewhere. I suspect there are parts of the country that would actually do something about this...

[fusioncal]

Ahhh...it reminds me of how it used to be when I still lived in LA. It's a common sight in LA that cars are not using their signal whenever they switch lanes or make a turn. So if you're in that situation again especially when opposite cars are making turn just flash them a bit to get their attention and shout, "Your signal light is out!" Hopefully the flashing won't get them into any trouble. We don't want any lawsuit, do we?

[Q.Q.Quillume]

  Shindig said:

I read this and said, "You must be in Los Angeles." Then I saw your location confirming this.

Unfortunately you don't gotta be in the City of Angels or even on the Left Coast to run into idioots and worse on the streets & highways & even in Wal*Mart for that matter.

I'm in a small town in N.C. (@76,000 in 2000) and the inmates seem to be running the asylum here too. The other day I saw a cretin make a left turn from the left left-turn lane with his right turn signal blinking -- most of the cars turning left didn't bother to have any blinker blinking . . Even worse from my perspective (I moved here from the D.C. area where if you're driving 10 mph over the speed limit [especially on the Beltway], you're holding up traffic) many people here seem to have the idea that if you drive somewhere between 3 & 12 mph below the speed limit, you probably won't get a speeding ticket, so it's virtually impossible to ever get up to the speed limit even when traffic is light. Oops, I probably am venting a little here . . . sorry.