What the Hell Are You Doing?!

[Jay 2K Winger]

So I'm driving in to work today on the toll road, my usual route (and the fastest and shortest) to The Client. There's a bit more traffic than I'd usually expect for a holiday, but whatever, I can deal.

So the road has four lanes, and I'm in the second left lane. There's a few cars around, and I'm kind of boxed in. There's a car to my right, and there's a SuckUV to the left.

Suddenly, the SuckUV decides to move over into my lane. They would have sideswiped me had I not immediately slowed down to get out of the way. Naturally, they don't signal until they're already in my lane.

I laid on the horn as they did this, of course. They showed no signs of hearing me. No brakes came on, no hesitation, they just kept coming over.

The thing that really pissed me off about the whole thing was I saw no reason why they did it. SuckUV had plenty of space ahead of them, so they weren't trying to pull around someone going too slowly, and, if anything, it was more crowded in my lane. They made no efforts to keep pulling right as if they needed to get to an exit.

It left me just that little bit more aggravated, so thanks a lot, SuckUV.

[otakuneko]

Had a guy in a pickup do that to me one day. There was absolutely no reason for him to come over into my lane, but that he did. I had to move onto the shoulder to even have enough time to slow down for his oblivious ass. Naturally, I gave him both the horn and the finger.

This was just days before I would buy my new car. It would've sucked to wreck the old one just before trading it in.

[Cia]

What I hate is when you're in a double turn lane and the idiot next to you decides he wants your lane while you're still in it. Almost got sideswiped today from some idiot doing this.

[Catwoman2965]

What I hate is when you're in a double turn lane and the idiot next to you decides he wants your lane while you're still in it. Almost got sideswiped today from some idiot doing this.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves. We have those when you have to take a jughandle to go from one side of a road, to the other. So there are two lanes, both turning left, onto the other side of the road. Always, when I'm in the right lane of the two, someone in the left lane, making the same turn I am, tries to turn into MY lane. They get the horn and the "jersey salute" aka the bird. And then have the nerve to look at me like I did something wrong.

[Gerrinson]

I see the double turn lane shenanigans all the time. We only have a couple of those intersections here and at one of them, the people in left lane just can't seem to understand why the person in the right lane would also be turning left.

Even when the only other option is to drive straight ahead into a tree.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Re: double turn lane shenanigans

I see this fairly often myself, and will admit to drifting over to the 'outside' lane from the 'inside' lane while turning-- BUT only when there is no one in that lane, or when I see that I have the space to do it. I never just pull over without checking.

I always take it carefully if I'm in the 'outside' lane of the double turn lane if there's someone in the 'inside' lane, because they might decide to pull over to my lane.