Near my house, there's a four way stop sign intersection. I got there before anyone else. Then, across from me a pickup truck pulls up and stops. Then to my right, an old guy stops.

It looks like this (yes, I know it's MS Paint and I draw like a five-year-old):

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So I start moving, and right as I'm about the pass the old guy, he just goes right in front of me. It was the first time that I had ever used the horn in my car.

Here's the diagram:

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Why do people have to be jerks like this?

schiznak

Australia258 Posts

September 15 2010 21:51 GMT

i see your problem, you are all driving on the wrong side of the road

but srsly, this is why they are moving away from those silly intersections, and just putting in more traffic lights, nobody knows the rules for right of way.

sOvrn

United States678 Posts

September 15 2010 21:53 GMT

Man... you should try living a day in Miami; I use my horn regularly. This is the least horrible thing that can happen to you over here.

Be thankful that this kind of thing happens to you so rarely that you make a blog about it when it does ;D hehe

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

September 15 2010 21:56 GMT

On September 16 2010 06:53 Sultan.P wrote:
Man... you should try living a day in Miami; I use my horn regularly. This is the least horrible thing that can happen to you over here.

Be thankful that this kind of thing happens to you so rarely that you make a blog about it when it does ;D hehe

Haha. I've had plenty of chances to use my horn, but I've been trying not to use it. But this was just inexcusable.

sOvrn

United States678 Posts

September 15 2010 22:04 GMT

I had a similar thing like this happen to me a while back. In fact, it was your same scenario only with 4 cars at each stop sign. I move out as it was my turn and what your old guy did to you, a younger chick did to me. I was really pissed especially because she was on the phone, so I honked my horn and started doing random pissed off hand gestures; she looks over very passively at me, gives me the middle finger and just keeps on going.

I was so shocked! Was kind of funny now that I look back, hehe.

UdderChaos

United Kingdom707 Posts

September 15 2010 22:06 GMT

On September 16 2010 06:51 schiznak wrote:
i see your problem, you are all driving on the wrong side of the road.

Lol yeah was gonna say the same thing :D

You should come drive in England where we have white van men, one of which sat on a road with double parked cars expecting me to reverse into a busy main road to let him through when there was a space on his side of the road 2 cars back. ended up going onto the grass.

DarkPlasmaBall

United States45383 Posts

September 15 2010 22:07 GMT

How old was the old guy?

I hear similar stories, and have some of my own. Old people are indeed a stereotype of awful drivers

And while there are surely counterexamples to every stereotype, stereotypes wouldn't exist in the first place if they weren't at least partially true at some point in time...

I really think that they need to have another driver's test once you hit around 65 or so... just to make sure you can *keep* your license.

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

September 15 2010 22:10 GMT

On September 16 2010 07:04 Sultan.P wrote:
I had a similar thing like this happen to me a while back. In fact, it was your same scenario only with 4 cars at each stop sign. I move out as it was my turn and what your old guy did to you, a younger chick did to me. I was really pissed especially because she was on the phone, so I honked my horn and started doing random pissed off hand gestures; she looks over very passively at me, gives me the middle finger and just keeps on going.

I was so shocked! Was kind of funny now that I look back, hehe.

She gave YOU the finger? What a bitch.

On September 16 2010 07:07 DarkPlasmaBall wrote:
How old was the old guy?

I hear similar stories, and have some of my own. Old people are indeed a stereotype of awful drivers

I have no idea how old he was. D:

But I agree with your age 65 driver test idea.

So no fek

United States3001 Posts

September 15 2010 22:44 GMT

My main pet peeve is people not using their turn signals. I'm not talking people that are in a left hand turn lane, but the 'hey, that guy is going 45, so I'm just going to pull right out in front of him without using my turn signals' type of people.

It has happened to me about 20-30 times since I started driving a few months ago, and it's really starting to grate. It tends to be people talking on their cell phones, too.

Worst case happened a few days ago. I was in a left hand turn lane, braking my way up to the stop line, but I was still going about 30. I'm about four cars away from the line, when out of no where this beat up Sonata (the third car in the lane to the right) pulls in front of me. I had to push even harder on the brakes, and I still almost hit them. That's fine and all, so they're first in the turn lane, and I'm second. Light turns green, and we're there for 30 seconds before they start moving. There's a light right after the turn, and they do it again. I swear they were stoned or something (of course it makes me laugh that this all happened on MLK.)

ggrrg

Bulgaria2716 Posts

September 15 2010 23:19 GMT

#10

Just be happy that you're not in one of those situations:

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How many cars can fit in 4 lanes?
Also note the variety of car models xD

another nice one

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Imagine having to cross one of those crossroads...

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Awesome regulation on a crossroad.

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???

Ferrose

United States11378 Posts

September 15 2010 23:28 GMT

#11

On September 16 2010 07:44 So no fek wrote:
My main pet peeve is people not using their turn signals. I'm not talking people that are in a left hand turn lane, but the 'hey, that guy is going 45, so I'm just going to pull right out in front of him without using my turn signals' type of people.

It has happened to me about 20-30 times since I started driving a few months ago, and it's really starting to grate. It tends to be people talking on their cell phones, too.

Worst case happened a few days ago. I was in a left hand turn lane, braking my way up to the stop line, but I was still going about 30. I'm about four cars away from the line, when out of no where this beat up Sonata (the third car in the lane to the right) pulls in front of me. I had to push even harder on the brakes, and I still almost hit them. That's fine and all, so they're first in the turn lane, and I'm second. Light turns green, and we're there for 30 seconds before they start moving. There's a light right after the turn, and they do it again. I swear they were stoned or something (of course it makes me laugh that this all happened on MLK.)

Yeah, 90% of people don't know that cars have turn signals.