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I was in My Hometown's downtown the other day, sitting at a fairly major intersection, in the left-hand-turn lane. Now, for reasons unknown to me, the city has never bothered to put an advance left turn light at this intersection. So of course the light turns green, the oncoming traffic starts to move, and if you're lucky ONE driver might get to make the left-hand turn before the light turns red and traffic from the crossroad starts to make its move.
Although, of course, red lights mean nothing to some drivers.
So I see the oncoming traffic clear just as the light turns red. I'm already IN the intersection so I start to turn ... and then I realize there's one more oncoming car, and he/she doesn't give a fiddler's fart that the light is red, and he/she is not planning to stop. So I stop turning. At which point the asshat behind me honks his horn.
He would've seen the "What red light??" idiot zip past both our cars a second or so after he hit the horn, so I think he realized a second or so too late that he was being the jerk, and I wasn't sitting in the middle of the intersection for the fun of it. I'm guessing that's what happened, because I turned the corner and then slowed to a crawl ... and stayed there. And HE stayed a car length and a half behind me, until we parted ways a few blocks down.
If I'd had my wits about me, I'd have opened my driver's side window and given him the finger for those two or three blocks.
Although, of course, red lights mean nothing to some drivers.
So I see the oncoming traffic clear just as the light turns red. I'm already IN the intersection so I start to turn ... and then I realize there's one more oncoming car, and he/she doesn't give a fiddler's fart that the light is red, and he/she is not planning to stop. So I stop turning. At which point the asshat behind me honks his horn.
He would've seen the "What red light??" idiot zip past both our cars a second or so after he hit the horn, so I think he realized a second or so too late that he was being the jerk, and I wasn't sitting in the middle of the intersection for the fun of it. I'm guessing that's what happened, because I turned the corner and then slowed to a crawl ... and stayed there. And HE stayed a car length and a half behind me, until we parted ways a few blocks down.
If I'd had my wits about me, I'd have opened my driver's side window and given him the finger for those two or three blocks.