Ok, so after my adventures on the roads of Toronto yesterday, I firmly believe that a frightening number of drivers got their licences in boxes of CrackerJacks.
Asshat #1: I'm at a set of traffic lights with 2 left turn lanes. I am in the right of these lanes. In other words, the lane immediately to my right is a lane designated for travel onward along the road from which I am about to turn. Light turns green. Car to my immediate right begins to move... only he's not going straight. He's turning. And since there are no lane markings for a turn from that lane, he's IN my lane. Insert several seconds of standing on the horn and much cursing audible inside my car. It gets better, though. The road we're turning onto has 3 lanes, but the one on the right isn't really a lane, so much as a really long on-ramp. It runs for slightly less than 1 block, and ends in an on-ramp to the 401. So, numb-nuts clues in that I'm not surrendering the lane I'm in to him, and he's not actually in a turning lane... so he finishes his turn into this extreme right lane... but he's slightly ahead of me because I value my car too much to really force the issue around the turn. I move to pass him, but he decides he doesn't want to be on the on-ramp... so he moves over. NOTE: this does not mean he changes speed or shoulder checks. This does not even mean he looks in his goddamn mirror. This means he moves over. Blindly. While my car is 1/2 way up the side of his. Cue horn. Cue foot to floor. Cue more cursing.
Asshat.
Asshats # 2 - 279,329,562: Does anyone check their mirrors any more? Or their 'blind spot'? Or their freakin' speedometer?
If the car immediately behind you on the highway is larger and heavier than yours, and the vehicle in front of you is a transport truck... it's safe to bet that both the vehicle in front of AND BEHIND yours will take longer to stop than you will. Ergo, no need to slam on your brakes when the transport truck you're following eases onto his brakes.
If you're in the left-most lane on the 401 and traffic is flowing well, there's absolutely no reason or excuse to be travelling at 75 km/h. None. That's a ticketable offense, so unacceptable is such behaviour.
If you are incapable of maintaining both a conversation and your lane on the highway, guess which one you should forgo? Yeah, the conversation, dumbass. Or better yet... forgo driving completely.
GET OFF MY PIECE OF ROAD!
And this is why I try not to drive on the 401 in Toronto. Outside Toronto... not nearly as many problems, really... yeah, there are still a few idiots, but not nearly as high a concentration.
People are dumb.
And they eat a lot of CrackerJacks ;)
Asshat #1: I'm at a set of traffic lights with 2 left turn lanes. I am in the right of these lanes. In other words, the lane immediately to my right is a lane designated for travel onward along the road from which I am about to turn. Light turns green. Car to my immediate right begins to move... only he's not going straight. He's turning. And since there are no lane markings for a turn from that lane, he's IN my lane. Insert several seconds of standing on the horn and much cursing audible inside my car. It gets better, though. The road we're turning onto has 3 lanes, but the one on the right isn't really a lane, so much as a really long on-ramp. It runs for slightly less than 1 block, and ends in an on-ramp to the 401. So, numb-nuts clues in that I'm not surrendering the lane I'm in to him, and he's not actually in a turning lane... so he finishes his turn into this extreme right lane... but he's slightly ahead of me because I value my car too much to really force the issue around the turn. I move to pass him, but he decides he doesn't want to be on the on-ramp... so he moves over. NOTE: this does not mean he changes speed or shoulder checks. This does not even mean he looks in his goddamn mirror. This means he moves over. Blindly. While my car is 1/2 way up the side of his. Cue horn. Cue foot to floor. Cue more cursing.
Asshat.
Asshats # 2 - 279,329,562: Does anyone check their mirrors any more? Or their 'blind spot'? Or their freakin' speedometer?
If the car immediately behind you on the highway is larger and heavier than yours, and the vehicle in front of you is a transport truck... it's safe to bet that both the vehicle in front of AND BEHIND yours will take longer to stop than you will. Ergo, no need to slam on your brakes when the transport truck you're following eases onto his brakes.
If you're in the left-most lane on the 401 and traffic is flowing well, there's absolutely no reason or excuse to be travelling at 75 km/h. None. That's a ticketable offense, so unacceptable is such behaviour.
If you are incapable of maintaining both a conversation and your lane on the highway, guess which one you should forgo? Yeah, the conversation, dumbass. Or better yet... forgo driving completely.
GET OFF MY PIECE OF ROAD!
And this is why I try not to drive on the 401 in Toronto. Outside Toronto... not nearly as many problems, really... yeah, there are still a few idiots, but not nearly as high a concentration.
People are dumb.
And they eat a lot of CrackerJacks ;)
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