See this honey?
Its a turn signal. I expect its presence in your car is something of a mystery to you.
Anyway, when there are four car lengths ahead of you, and i turn mine on, it is to signal my intention to occupy one of those empty spots.
It is not your signal to finally decide to stop farding and put the metal down and close up that gap.
Anyway did you notice how me and my $400 truck just kept coming, and you had to slam on the brakes in your new cts to keep it out of my ass, honking the whole time? Only takes a tiny bit of courtesy to avoid all that drama. Of course, courtesy is as foreign to you, no doubt, as your turn signal.
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Damn. I clicked on this thinking I’d see some honey. ;)
This is my life were speaking about.
This morning I was making excellent time and as I took a ramp from one interstate to another (nice, big swoopy thing you don’t really have to slow down for) I note an 18 wheeler all by its lonesome in the left lane plodding along at 20 or more below the lint.
I took to the right lane a good 500 yards back from the truck.
When I’m about a car length from the back of the trailer the truck decides to come to the right lane. No signal at all. It’s moving so slow that bailing to the left isn’t an option since it’s blocking both lanes as it meanders along.
I can tell you that the stopping distance of my 2005 Matrix purchased this past June is rather impressive. Unfortunately since it lacks antilock brakes it’ll probably take a month to wear the flat spots off the tires.
I’m thinking soeech to text and a reverse HUD in the rear window.
If they can read….
Been there and done that. I now use turn signals sparingly. I know what the ten cars ahead of me are doing as well as ten cars back as well as all those to my left or right.
I really get a chuckle out of the high speed closers and when they get a bumper length ahead of me and are beside me.
I sometimes wonder, since we are all trying to save some time and when we run out of time we are dead, whats the rush?
I never get in a rush, but i sure see plenty of people whose souls can only be pure if theyre ahead of me.
My wife’s pet peeve is the person who just HAS to get in front of her. She has a normal following distance between her and the car in front of her, and there’s a half-mile between her and the car behind her, but the jackass just HAS to change lanes in front of her instead of getting in behind her.
Also seems to happen at entrance ramps and side streets, the person just has to cut her off instead of waiting for her to go by when there’s no one behind her.
Then again, I do most of my driving in NJ, where the weak are killed, cooked on the exhaust manifold, and eaten.
I’m going to get a bumper sticker that says “My turn signal is a warning, not a request”.
I always get a kick out of those enlightened individuals who have taken it upon themselves to use the opposite turn signal to indicate which lane they are going into. And no, I am not talking about those who were merging into traffic with their left signal on (as it should be in that particular case) and for whatever reason it just hasn’t “turned off”….. no, I am talking about the putzes (and putzettes) who turn their left signal on …and then exit right…or if in the center lane of a 3 or 4 lane wide stretch of road, have the opposite signal on before heading …well…opposite of said signal.
And folks wonder why we don’t have cars that fly??!!! If and when that happens…I am going Amish….back to the horse and buggy.
Guy S – that buggy won’t help you when flying cars start crashing in mid-air and landing in your general area. As I tell the natives here in LA (aka Dante’s Inferno) – “Take a look at all those idiots on the 405! Do you really want them FLYING? ABOVE YOUR HOUSE?”