I’m open to the possibility that it’s just me being more aware/sensitive to how people are driving around me too. And I’m not necessarily talking about drivers I have to interact with myself but just seeing what people are doing in general.
I’m open to the possibility that it’s just me being more aware/sensitive to how people are driving around me too. And I’m not necessarily talking about drivers I have to interact with myself but just seeing what people are doing in general.
The red light situation is insane since then. People would always push it a bit here and there, but now i routinely see people with a red fly through an intersection after people with the green light have already entered the intersection. Social media has convinced simpletons that because they see “movies” of their own life on their devices that they have plot armor. And it will take a serious accident to make them learn otherwise. Its frightening as fuck to share the road with people like that.
Reminds me of an old joke:
My car was in the shop, so I asked for a ride to the grocery store from my neighbor. He agrees, no problem, and we’re off. The first time we come to a red light, he floors it and we dart through the intersection. There’s a cacophony of horns and squealing ties, but we’re unscathed.
I whip around to him, wide-eyed, and yell, “What the hell are you doing?! That was a red light!”
He smiles and says, “Don’t worry, I watch my brother do that all the time. No problem.”
I try to argue, but he keeps doubling down: “Never seen my brother get hit. Everyone just stays out of the way. It’s totally fine,” as we fly through one intersection after another, ignoring seemingly every red light in town.
Finally, mercifully, I see us pulling up to a green light. I reassure myself that we’re almost there, and I’ll be home soon.
But as we roll up to the green light, my neighbor slams hard on his brakes. The car behind us lays on their horn and skids to a sharp stop right behind us. I’m white as a ghost as I turn to my neighbor and demand to know why the hell we stopped at a green light.
“My brother could’ve been coming from the other way.”
Yup. I saw this twice this week, the first happened at a 4 way stop and everyone took their turns until one car just followed the car in front of them, knowing people will still be paused. The fucking gall of someone to not only skip the line, but blow a stop sign to do it. 4 way stops I’ve found to be the worst at seeing this kind of behavior.
The second was someone I work with, apparently. Not someone I know but they clearly work on my shift. Our building is right off the highway and I took the offramp to it and waited at the red light. Nobody was coming so I started to turn right on to the road toward work. Then I look left again and there’s a black Dodge ram going easily 45 in a 30 just to slam on the brakes mid turn, halfway into the intersection when that light was red. I pull up behind him and the lights for the side street had just turned yellow, and this cum stain blows the red were stopped at early at full acceleration. Only to turn into the western parking lot of the place we work. The stupidest part of this story? We were 40 minutes early.