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Today was a good day. Made two Pittsburgh Lefts in a single
Jun 16, 2022, 7:48 PM
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5 minute run to the grocery store this everning. What a great time to be alive.
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BTW... a PL nowadays is when you're the first car at a redlight
Jun 16, 2022, 8:08 PM
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needing to turn left. You notice that the driver in the car across from you is under about the age of 40, and staring down at their crotch. They're either jacking/fingering themselves, or as is the case 99.9% of the time, they're staring at their cell phones. Which means they're not paying attention. So the split second the light turns green, I turn left in front of them before they even move. I do it all the time...
And their reaction is so predictable... they immediately look up into their rearview mirror to see how pizzed off the drivers behind them are, because they're napping thru a green light...
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Make a PL in front of the wrong dude and you may end up
Jun 16, 2022, 9:01 PM
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with a chicago sunroof.
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Nah, I only do it when they're staring down at their cell phones...
Jun 16, 2022, 9:22 PM
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I've typically turned left and zoomed thru the intersection before they even look up.
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Re: Make a PL in front of the wrong dude and you may end up
Jun 17, 2022, 10:58 AM
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After I ran a guy down on Independence and ran him off the road for cursing me, just because I merged - I knew then it was time to start taking the bus.
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theres an intersection by my house that has a left turn lane
Jun 17, 2022, 3:56 PM
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and unless you do the PL, OR wait in the intersection until the light turns red (because yellow will still get u killed), you ain't turning left until the next green
so, two cars get to turn left.
I got stuck behind someone who WOULDN'T DO EITHER of those things last week, and sat thru 3 light cycles.
I'm not a horn guy, but if I hadn't let him know he was ####### it up, we probably would've made it to 4
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I see a lot of Des Moines Douchebaggs doing that.***
Jun 16, 2022, 9:02 PM
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Were you updating FB while people behind you were growing old?
Jun 16, 2022, 9:08 PM
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I mean, SOMEBODY needs to go on green, right? At least, that's how it used to work. What makes it 10x worse is when that car that you just shamed... takes a GDMF right turn. They've been sitting there forever and could've taken a "right on red" multiple times but didn't, cause cell phone. And a half dozen cars behind them could've take a "right on red" too. But nobody got a chance. And then they double-down on stoopid by sitting thru the green... Eff em, eff em all.
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Lot o points [155941]
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LOL, I get it. Lemme tell you what's worse.
Jun 16, 2022, 9:30 PM
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Here in TN, apparently the natives were all taught that you don't pull into the middle of a green light to wait for a break to turn left. Not exaggerating. All the lights here have left turn arrows, and if they don't make the arrow, they will sit behind the white line for the remainder of the (non-arrow) green light to wait for the light to cycle all the way back to the arrow again.
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HOLY CRAPPPPPPPP DUDE - that sends me into ORBIT. I have
Jun 16, 2022, 10:31 PM
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threatened to get outta my car and run to where the front of that car SHOULD be in the intersection & furiously direct them until they get to where I am standing.
It makes me INSANE.
It makes their left turn about 3 times longer than it should be & therefore “more dangerous” and it globs up everybody behind them.
Whew - now my blood is boiling - gonna have to go ….. do …… something ……. GOOD LORD.
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Here in Mt Perfect
Jun 17, 2022, 10:35 AM
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we have people that will block lanes to make a turn from a terrible location into the far lane and I honk like a #### and they always throw their hands up and mouth something along the lines of "what am i supposed to do?" You wait at your point until you have the clearing to cross 4 lanes of traffic and not block the intersection for everyone else
Equally frustrating is the people that don't understand the difference between a 4 way stop and a regular intersection that they want to treat as a 4 way stop. Straight has priority over your left hand turn, check yo privilege
I feel like its bonus points when its a fancy car and you can tell that they think they can do what they want cus they are in a Rover
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Most of the ones in Range Rovers are Wando High students
Jun 17, 2022, 10:37 AM
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so they prob don't have much driving experience.
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specifically speaking of the intersection by Melvins
Jun 17, 2022, 10:38 AM
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people wanna turn all the way into the left lanes to go towards downtown on 17 while blocking 2-3 lanes because there isn't enough room for them in the lane
Also happens by CFA and the intersection by CVS on shelmore
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My exit has more than enough room for two cars side by side
Jun 17, 2022, 10:48 AM
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So you can take a right even as others are waiting to take a left, works great for non-rahtards. The problem is some people go out of their way to sit in the very middle so you cannot get around them. It's like they are personally offended you're trying to take a right before it's clear for them to take a left, complete with death stares and everything.
My latest strategy is to get on their ### and lay on the horn. For minutes if I have to. After 20 seconds or so it really seems to start wearing on them.
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I wear my horn out honking at these people
Jun 17, 2022, 10:28 AM
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Then they usually have the gall to act like you're the one being an assshole. Of course, then you have the submissive poosays who will NOT honk at these people too....I can only do so much from 8 cars back buddy, at some point you're going to have to take the initiative to get this fuckkers attention.
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I think its the influx of foreigners around here
Jun 17, 2022, 10:34 AM
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but I've seem to have become invisible.
People regularly pull out in front of me in my car, and I was in the grocery store the other day and people just kept walking in front of me, repeatedly.
or maybe I'm just invisible.
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pedestrians do have the right of way
Jun 17, 2022, 10:37 AM
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If there is a crosswalk and they are in it.
I almost sacrificed myself downtown a couple of months ago for a payday for being hit in a crosswalk
The demographic of the driver lead me to rethink because it would have been squeezing blood from a turnip
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Oculus Spirit [81066]
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I meant I was in the grocery store..walking.
Jun 17, 2022, 10:46 AM
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People just kept walking in front of me and cutting me off. It was weird. It happened like 3-4 times in teh 10 minutes I was in the store.
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Good opportunity to shoulder check a stranger
Jun 17, 2022, 10:50 AM
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Then scream at them about 'diss spekkin' you.
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Yep
Jun 17, 2022, 4:13 PM
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We're off rifle range now, so its almost a walk from the house.
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speaking of....another inexplicable human trait is
Jun 17, 2022, 4:12 PM
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that person walking who enters/leaves a store, and as he/she breaks the door threshold to the other side, has the sudden urge to just STOP right there and stand still, blocking the entire doorway from people both entering and leaving. If you are following close behind, you have to employ evasive maneuvers not to run into the back of them.
Have you noticed these people? Do they believe they have entered a new invisible dimension once they penetrate the threshold of the doors? Are they overwhelmed or confused by the sudden change in scenery/climate? What gives?
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I was in 2 airports 4x full of them.
Jun 17, 2022, 4:15 PM
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I don't get it. And they never look to see who is behind them.
In my recent brief interactions with other humans, I've noticed they seem to all have gotten more rude and completely uncaring to everyone else except them.
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90% of them are towing a cart, luggage, or kids
Jun 17, 2022, 4:19 PM
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which make the blockade even more impenetrable.
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