To the guy in the blue Maxima:
Look, wait until you are alone and have a few minutes free. Pull down your pants, and let your hands hang freely at your sides. Your palms will be very near to your thighs. Put your hands on your thighs, and slowly slide them toward the back. You will notice a rounded protruberance on either side.
That, my incapable-of-using-turnsignals friend, is your ass.
Now: Press firmly, and your head should pop right out!
Hard to believe you weren’t driving north on US 37 out of Bloomington last night. Because I think that guy was down there, too.
Sorry, what? I meant SR 37, not US 37 :)
All recent evidence points to the conclusion that using turn signals to alert the motorist directly behind you that your intention is to turn so that said motorist doesn’t ram you in the ass is a thing of the past…. or at least a dieing art. I guess we’ve “progressed”.
Around here (NJ) the method tends to be:
1) Take foot off accelerator, allow speed to drop by 10 mph or so.
2) Stomp on brake, come to almost complete stop.
3) Begin turn
4) Turn on turn signal for exactly one blink of light
5) Complete turn
I have NEVER understood why people don’t signal their turns. Myself, it’s so ingrained in my muscle memory that I sometimes signal at sharp bends in the road. When I am ruler of the world, “failure to signal” will rank with “parking in a handicap zone” and “straight-up murder” among the capital offenses.
My neighbors laugh at me because I signal leaving my driveway
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My wife laughs at me for the same reason. I tell her that, for me, it’s just as automatic as checking the chamber of a firearm, I don’t think about it, I just do it.
While riding my Harley recently, I noticed that three drivers in a row ran up behind me WAY too close and quickly for comfort while I was making right hand turns. Since twice is coincidence and thrice is a trend, I pulled over and checked my right rear turn signal. Yep, the bulb was blown, so I pulled into the next auto parts store, bought a bulb and installed it with my Leatherman. Hence forth I will ALWAYS check all the lights on the two wheeled conveyance BEFORE climbing aboard.
I had a firsty today! I thought all ways to drive dangerously stupid were covered (like Oscar Wilde said, you know how hard it is to commit an *original* sin?), but I saw a brand spankingly new one. I’m coming out of Valpo on US 30 in the right lane, the guy in the left lane goes past about 10 mph faster, but someone uses the left turn road blister (you know, the short ramp that let’s you pull a u-turn or turnoff on a divided four lane highway?) as a passing lane to go around him.
“Just two good ole boys, never done any harm …”