start a victory garden and ration your IRRATIONALLY ANGRY feelings, part 3

you dont imo want these ppl to lose an iota of concentration from not crashing the car, which is what unlike to assume would happen instantly were they to break out the signal move

I like

but what about the classic (1) slow down, confusing drivers behind you, (2) begin turning even more slowly, (3) signal? surely those people would not lose concentration by signaling earlier

Once saw someone get out of their own car, pick up the still-burning fag and chuck it back through the window of the 4WD it had come from, then drive off

i read that as "flag" twice lol

these colors don't smolder

Welcome to flagfour country

... get coat etc

Stopping at a stoplight, and having the car behind stop a foot or less off my rear bumper. Especially frustrating in the early a.m. nowadays, when the angle of their headlights climbs higher on my car interior as their car inches forward. Years ago, a passenger vented to me as I was doing the same thing, and said I should be able to see the rear tires of a forward car over my hood. That locked in as the acceptable, polite distance - about ~4' away. I'm sure in 99% of the cases it's not an aggressive move, more like a placid impatience or false sense of progress, but it still lights me up and has me off the blocks slowly when the light changes. Want to get to a "no harm, no foul" mindset.

Gonna put another IA in here for drivers that don't use turn signals. I hope you put the energy you save from not moving your hand inches away from the steering wheel to some good use.

― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, February 20, 2015 6:28 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Getting angry at this is not irrational at all.

yeah, that's one for the disgusting savages thread. people who fail to use their indicators should be dragged out of their cars and summarily executed imo

the reason people have stopped using their blinkers in FL, I'm convinced, is because there are assholes who literally will speed up for no reason other than to deny you the ability to move over once you signal. I make it a habit of cutting them off anyway when this happens.

Heh, my wife used to drive like that. "Don't turn on your signal. People around here just see that as a point of vulnerability".

I admit to that too.

I'll always signal if I'm turning from one road to another, but on the highway, in some case-by-case scenario, I'll move over without notice just because I KNOW that Ford Supertruck behind me is just going to slam on the gas as soon as he sees my blinker.

I will admit to always signaling and, should some jerk use that as an opportunity to remove the space I was going to move into, use it as an opportunity to know I am somehow a more reasonable person this day than at least one other individual.

justify your superiority complex where you can, is what I'm saying

I always indicate and it drives me insane when other people don't or when they do it like 1/2 way into the turn. It's not an afterthought!

No, definitely not an afterthought. It should be ingrained by the time you get out of driver's ed. At least 5 seconds before a lane change. At least 100 feet before a turn.

I'll always signal if I'm turning from one road to another, but on the highway, in some case-by-case scenario, I'll move over without notice just because I KNOW that Ford Supertruck behind me is just going to slam on the gas as soon as he sees my blinker.

― pplains, Wednesday, February 25, 2015 2:47 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Does that seriously happen? And people say the internet turns people into jerks. It's actually cars.

drivers who don't signal enrage me

especially when you are turning left & they dont signal so you wait for them to go through & then they pop a left at the last minute & yr like whyyyyyy

The style of clickbait where the "reporter" merely selects excerpts or examples from some other bit of internet silliness and then unfunnily comments on it. "Check out this hilarious instagram account that mercilessly sends up the art world! This image macro is a real knee-slapper! [ gif] Here's another one of @whitewalls' molotov cocktails thrown into the Gagosian itself! [ gif]"

yeah, i signal the heck out of everything and only rarely get the sense that someone has tried to crowd me out of a signaled lane change. it happened the other day, fwiw, but i can't remember the last time before that. and it hardly matters. if you wanna be pushy, make the change anyway (i did). otherwise, just brake a little and take your next shot.

then again, i don't live in an automotive purgatory like florida or wash, dc. maine drivers tend to be pretty chill.

also i hate the construction site across from my house

"what's the most beeping we can do at 6am"
"no, let's find the oldest shittiest loudest concrete mixer"
"BEEPING WE NEED MORE BEEPING"

I found out about 9/11 from the loud construction workers outside my building.

#humblebrag

My new IA is people who don't know how a 4-way stop intersection works. Yes, you still have to stop at the Stop sign, even if you already came to a complete stop behind the guy in front of you. No, you can't piggy-back off the car in front of you as though you are being towed. No, if the car opposite you is turning left you can't go straight through at the same time. Also, if it's your turn to go, then you must go. Don't sit there and wave people through while you have cars piling up behind you.

And if someone honks at you for going out of turn, please don't act shocked and offended. Please flip them off like the asshole you are.

otm. 4-way stop is the quickest & most accurate IQ test devised by science

• Those people think 4-ways work by time waited, rather than order of appearance.

• Also, stop at the 4-way. If you're still coasting and I've come to a complete stop, it's my turn next since I have fulfilled my civic duty.

• People at a red light, sitting in the inside lane, who turn their left signal on after you've pulled up behind them.

so otm. There is a stoplight near my house that is notorious for going out every time it rains, leading to an inevitable clusterfuck during rush hour. Maybe 10% of the people passing through seem to know how to properly handle a 4-way stop, if I'm being generous. All of the accidents I've seen at this intersection, somewhere between 10-15, have been during outages.

Australia has these weird stop signs at selected traffic lights. My first thought was, Do they really need a sign for common sense? But as you point out, jon, yes. Yes, they do, and probably not just Australia either.

http://i.imgur.com/fIL8fcS.png

(Also leave it to Australia where you can't grab a quick screenshot without capturing some frightening animal wild in flight.)

Honestly, I don't know if I know how to handle a four way stop anymore.

Getting angry at this is not irrational at all.

― Οὖτις Δαυ & τηε Κνιγητσ (Phil D.), Wednesday, February 25, 2015 6:26 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the I in the IA left the barn way back on the first thread. the opening post about "where's george" on dollar bills is still the ultimate archetypal IA thing, just inexplicable rage at something so ultimately innocuous

True. Separate threads for IA and RA would be good, but I'm not going to be the one to try it.

Honestly, I don't know if I know how to handle a four way stop anymore.

I drive about once a week and every time I try to remember how to handle a left turn at a 4-way stop. I looked it up once but the IL Rules of the Road were worded in a confusing way, so I just do the best I can or avoid left turns at 4-way stops.

• Also, stop at the 4-way. If you're still coasting and I've come to a complete stop, it's my turn next since I have fulfilled my civic duty.

*salutes pplains*

Haha this blog isn't helping

Four-way stops become even more confusing when you consider that Michigan law does not actually define the word "stop" or require motorists to stop before signs.

four way stop junction is obv the most stupid system devised anywhere for anything by anyone

what % of posts ITT deal with rational irritation imma say all of them btw

There was that post by rrrrrobyn about getting angry when people have matching dogs.

I get pretty IA when people say they don't really notice song lyrics.

what's hard about a 4-way stop? you stop, you wait for your turn in the rotation, then go. i have become irrationally angry about this feigned confusion thing.

Ive seen 4 way give ways but 4 way stop sounds confusing. Who goes first? #spotthenondriver

A give way? What is that?

I'm fine with most aspects of 4-way stops except left-turn protocol. I used to be the king of 4-way stops but I haven't owned a car in over 10 years and I forgot that fine point.

And the 3 sites I looked at today were definitely not instructive about left turns. (That one about Michigan threatened to leave me worse off than I was, with its whole "nobody really knows what 'arrive' or 'stop' mean.")

don't think there's any special left (or right) turn protocol. cars simply go in the order they arrived at the stop line.

yes, that means you may cross the path of another car entering the intersection after you, but as you have priority and were signaling your turn, no problem. just turn & go.

I'd never thought of the logic of yielding to the right, but it really makes sense

yield to the right because the car on the right will clear the intersection faster than if the one on the left goes first. (This is because we drive on the right half of the road. When the car on the right goes first, it travels only half way across the road before it is out of your way. If the car on the left moves first, it will have to travel across the entire intersection before being out of the way.

OK I think my confusion is cured. I was way overthinking it.

BTW this is totally OTM.

• If you are situated on the left, start moving when the car is out of your way (hesitate only if the car is turning left). You do not have to watch the driver disappear over the horizon before you start moving. Be assertive so that cars arriving after you will not be confused. This means taking your foot off the brake and letting your car begin to roll when you know it is your turn. Other drivers will then know you are getting ready to turn. If you hesitate, your four-way stop can quickly turn into a confusing staring contest.

xp otm. "yield to the right" applies not to turns made while passing through the intersection, but rather the order of priority when cars arrive at the stop line (or w/e) at the same time.

I know, that was just a side-topic (yield to the right, I mean).

sorry for pedantic. do get worked up over 4-way stops though. at least it's the thread for it.

Sorry give way is what we call what I think you guys call yeild? (pause but dont have to full stop)