How the hell do you have a license??!!!!

[Kisa]

Today I was driving home from work on my usual route when the guy in front of me started turning left. I thought it was a bit odd since he was turning into a curb, missing the side street by about 7 feet. He then started to back up. Right. Into. Me. I slammed on my breaks to avoid smashing into the asshole and layed on the horn until he stopped too. I saw him look back at me, then continue on to make a sloppy, 3 point U-turn and drive off in the other direction. FYI, where I'm from, ALL U-TURNS ARE ILLEGAL. That means, no one, under any circumstanses, for any reason, no matter what, can make a U-turn. And this dumbass decided to attempt an illegal U-turn on a busy road during rush hour in a construction zone while almost backing up into another car. Needless to say, numerous curses spilled from my mouth.

Here's a diagram. Red line is the dumbass, blue line is me, blue block is me slamming on the breaks. Enjoy...

[Elspeth]

I swear drivers are just getting worse.

Though what we saw last night on the way home just blew us away. Going up the main hill in town, we see somebody pulling a u turn very similar to what happen in front of you Kisa. Of course the big problem with this u turn was the person was in a SEMI with a trailer.

I would love to know how these people A) got their licenses and B) how they keep them.

[Beki710]

That's mental. I've had the odd incident where I've missed a turning, but I try and find a side street to do a 3 point turn in. I just don't understand what is so urgent that you endangering your life and others to complete and illegal move.

[Tama]

Unless you are that couple from Men in Black I (Or II?) where the woman is having her "baby" then I doubt there is reason for you to be doing that.

[ShadowBall]

They probably figure they can do what their state's driving manual says just to get their license and then do whatever the hell they please once they have it. I guess they figure it's like any other test where you just memorize useless information for the sake of passing and then you forget about it entirely.

[mattm04]

That's mental. I've had the odd incident where I've missed a turning, but I try and find a side street to do a 3 point turn in. I just don't understand what is so urgent that you endangering your life and others to complete and illegal move.

They are too important (in their little pea sized minds) to have to spend extra minute to find a street to turn off onto and make a safe turn.

[LillFilly]

Wow. That is a huge 3-point turn fail right there.

[SongsOfDragons]

There's a relatively dangerous road that my home road is perpendicular to, leading to a massive four-way crossroads one of which goes past a commercial estate and up to the M3. There's a place here where all the big lorries to U-turns...legally. Especially since there is a lorry company depot on the other side of the road. XD I'd like to hope at least that they're doing it safely, but it's quite a spectacle to watch one of those things test the limits of their turning circle.

[An Haddock]

Yeah, I had a real winner in front of me two weeks ago. I was heading up to drop off my employee at her car and this ditzy older woman (60's? 70's?) pulled right out into traffic in front of us. Fortunately the speed limit is 25 so I was going slow enough that I didn't have to slam on the brakes, but she still pulled out in front of us with less than 100 feet to spare.

Then, in a maneuver of even greater idiocy, she turns right... going the wrong way down a one way street.

There was a Papa John's driver at the one-way street waiting to merge onto the road watching this. (the one way street is split into two lanes there so you can turn left or right - he was waiting to turn right) We caught each other's eyes, I made a sort of confused shrug and he laughed.


Never a cop around when you need one.

[Food Lady]

Unless you are that couple from Men in Black I (Or II?) where the woman is having her "baby" then I doubt there is reason for you to be doing that.

It was the first one. I love that movie. That scene is hilarious!

[ShadowBall]

An Haddock, your story reminds me of one of my mother's greatest hits in driving. A few years back when we had a flood, she had to take an alternate route to work because the one she usually takes was underwater. Her turn was real easy to make: Right, first left, drive to end of road, left again. The End.

She managed to not go to the end of the road and turned onto a road with big red signs that said, "Do Not Enter." I guess she didn't see them. So she drove about a mile in the wrong direction with people honking at her and she couldn't understand why, so she drove several more miles in the emergency lane before she was hysterical, turned around, went to the gas station and asked for directions.

Good job, Mom...driving the wrong way on the highway in the emergency lane. Shockingly, no one hit her. I ask myself the title of this topic almost every time I am in the car with her.

[An Haddock]

She managed to not go to the end of the road and turned onto a road with big red signs that said, "Do Not Enter." I guess she didn't see them. So she drove about a mile in the wrong direction with people honking at her and she couldn't understand why, so she drove several more miles in the emergency lane before she was hysterical, turned around, went to the gas station and asked for directions.

An SC would probably think the "Do Not Enter" signs were for a special secret road that V.I.P.'s were allowed to use to bypass the commoners who were using flooded streets.

[Yarnil]

ALL U-TURNS ARE ILLEGAL.

But, but...This is a Z turn, according to your drawing

[MadMike]

One of the stupidest things I ever saw another driver to happened to me and my wife on the way to the movies one night. We exited from a highway, onto a ramp that had two lanes. If you went straight, it took you onto a four-lane road that led thru a shopping center. If you went left or right, it took you onto another four-lane road. The right lane split into a ramp that took you right onto the crossroad, and from either lane you could go left or right, as long as you stayed in that lane (if you're in the left lane on the ramp, you can turn left onto the left lane on the crossroad; if you're in the right lane on the ramp, you can turn left onto the right lane of the crossroad.)

I was in the left lane of the ramp, waiting at the light to turn left onto the crossroad. There was a girl next to me in the right lane. Now, you're probably thinking that she tried to turn left into the left lane and almost hit me. Well, what she did was even stupider than that. Apparently she decided she didn't want to get off the highway after all, and tried to make a u-turn onto the other set of lanes on the ramp, which take you back on the highway, and cut right across my path as I was trying to turn left. I was pissed! I don't think I stopped cussing until we got to the movie.