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Too Self-Important to Wait
So, today I have to go home a bit before lunchtime to procure my checkbook because the escrow company handling the house purchase I'm making gave me the wrong figure for the balance of my deposit to seal the deal. >_<
As I'm on my way back, just past the 12:00 hour, I reach an intersection that is pretty notorious for the crazy that goes on around it. Strangely, when the signal isn't working, the people using the intersection are better behaved.
Anyway, I'm stopped at the light, with one car ahead, in the right of two lanes, when this other car comes cruising up on the right and pulls up right next to the car ahead of me, obviously intending to jump the light and pull into the lead once it changes.
Or, well, maybe not once it changes, as he starts inching forward before the cross traffic even has a yellow. He's halfway across the crosswalk by the time the yellow does show up, and he stops for a few seconds as the turn signals go green. Then, while semis and cars are streaming from the other direction to turn across our lanes and head to the right, he starts inching forward again. He manages to inch his car completely past the crosswalk before the opposing traffic's left turn light has gone red. At which point he then guns it about two seconds before our light turns green.
It's people like this and the two dipshits that were playing games and racing one another on the freeway back that make me want to install a dashboard cam in my car.
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Oh, and yet another tailgating thread reminded me of yet another example of driving suck from my little trip this noontime: There was a Sheriff that was riding the bumper of every single car he ended up behind. He did it to me, to the guy next to me, the guy in front of me, a semi, another car to the right, and he was so far up the tailpipe of the guy he was behind the last time I saw him, any slowdown would have caused an accident. I'm talking a distance of less than 10 feet while doing between 30 and 40 mph. >_<
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As I'm on my way back, just past the 12:00 hour, I reach an intersection that is pretty notorious for the crazy that goes on around it. Strangely, when the signal isn't working, the people using the intersection are better behaved.
Anyway, I'm stopped at the light, with one car ahead, in the right of two lanes, when this other car comes cruising up on the right and pulls up right next to the car ahead of me, obviously intending to jump the light and pull into the lead once it changes.
Or, well, maybe not once it changes, as he starts inching forward before the cross traffic even has a yellow. He's halfway across the crosswalk by the time the yellow does show up, and he stops for a few seconds as the turn signals go green. Then, while semis and cars are streaming from the other direction to turn across our lanes and head to the right, he starts inching forward again. He manages to inch his car completely past the crosswalk before the opposing traffic's left turn light has gone red. At which point he then guns it about two seconds before our light turns green.
It's people like this and the two dipshits that were playing games and racing one another on the freeway back that make me want to install a dashboard cam in my car.
[edit to add]
Oh, and yet another tailgating thread reminded me of yet another example of driving suck from my little trip this noontime: There was a Sheriff that was riding the bumper of every single car he ended up behind. He did it to me, to the guy next to me, the guy in front of me, a semi, another car to the right, and he was so far up the tailpipe of the guy he was behind the last time I saw him, any slowdown would have caused an accident. I'm talking a distance of less than 10 feet while doing between 30 and 40 mph. >_<
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