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...Because not signalling certainly seems likely to kill you one of these days.
I'm really starting to hate how the majority of people here don't seem keen on signalling when they're driving and changing lanes. (or turning, or pulling out of parallel parking spaces, or....)
On Monday, my husband got a notice in the mail that there was a package for us at the post office. We must've had a substitute mailman that day who didn't feel like delivering the package to our door because I was home all day and never heard the doorbell (we checked it; it's not broken again), and the regular mailman has a key to the stairwells in our complex anyway. I had a flimsier package that was rolled up and stuffed in our tiny box, but the package that wasn't delivered was too stiff for that treatment.
This necessitated a trip to the post office on Tuesday. For many parts of downtown, there are at least two driving lanes each direction. I was in the right-hand lane approaching an intersection where I intended to turn right. There were two cars in the left-hand lane. Apparently the second, a minivan, didn't want to wait for the car ahead of them to pull through the intersection because, just as I came abreast with their rear bumper, they pulled into my lane without warning. Thank goodness I had working brakes and that the roads were clear. Had that stunt happened today, I would have hit them.
Unfortunately, the post office couldn't find my package anywhere, so I had to go back again today (after receiving a phone call last night to let me know that it had been located). I headed to the post office with some of the least driving stress I've had since moving out here, since the snow kept most of the city's drivers off the roads. On the way back, though.... I was driving down one of the residential streets where there's only one driving lane each direction, and parallel parking on the sides of the streets. I'm going a very safe speed since the roads are potentially slick (at least if you slam on your brakes), and keeping an eye out for other drivers.
Then a Jeep with a plow on the front, sitting in a parallel parking space outside a little shop, suddenly starts to pull out in front of me just as I come up next to it. No signal, no taillights to let me know the car is on (because its headlights were off), no telltale exhaust because there's snow billowing around. Just a plow attachment suddenly pulling into where my front bumper is going to be in half a second. Thankfully I managed to tap the brakes enough and the other driver realized that my big red vehicle with headlights on was actually in the driving lane, and I was able to get ahead of them without crunching my front bumper on their plow.
Seriously, if they're not going to bother looking before they pull in front of me, would it kill them to signal so I at least have some warning?
I'm really starting to hate how the majority of people here don't seem keen on signalling when they're driving and changing lanes. (or turning, or pulling out of parallel parking spaces, or....)
On Monday, my husband got a notice in the mail that there was a package for us at the post office. We must've had a substitute mailman that day who didn't feel like delivering the package to our door because I was home all day and never heard the doorbell (we checked it; it's not broken again), and the regular mailman has a key to the stairwells in our complex anyway. I had a flimsier package that was rolled up and stuffed in our tiny box, but the package that wasn't delivered was too stiff for that treatment.
This necessitated a trip to the post office on Tuesday. For many parts of downtown, there are at least two driving lanes each direction. I was in the right-hand lane approaching an intersection where I intended to turn right. There were two cars in the left-hand lane. Apparently the second, a minivan, didn't want to wait for the car ahead of them to pull through the intersection because, just as I came abreast with their rear bumper, they pulled into my lane without warning. Thank goodness I had working brakes and that the roads were clear. Had that stunt happened today, I would have hit them.
Unfortunately, the post office couldn't find my package anywhere, so I had to go back again today (after receiving a phone call last night to let me know that it had been located). I headed to the post office with some of the least driving stress I've had since moving out here, since the snow kept most of the city's drivers off the roads. On the way back, though.... I was driving down one of the residential streets where there's only one driving lane each direction, and parallel parking on the sides of the streets. I'm going a very safe speed since the roads are potentially slick (at least if you slam on your brakes), and keeping an eye out for other drivers.
Then a Jeep with a plow on the front, sitting in a parallel parking space outside a little shop, suddenly starts to pull out in front of me just as I come up next to it. No signal, no taillights to let me know the car is on (because its headlights were off), no telltale exhaust because there's snow billowing around. Just a plow attachment suddenly pulling into where my front bumper is going to be in half a second. Thankfully I managed to tap the brakes enough and the other driver realized that my big red vehicle with headlights on was actually in the driving lane, and I was able to get ahead of them without crunching my front bumper on their plow.
Seriously, if they're not going to bother looking before they pull in front of me, would it kill them to signal so I at least have some warning?
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