Re: Hate Thread
*chuckles* remember that conversation about drivers being dicks? I was on the other side of the debate today... I roll up to a stoplight, and there's four or five cars there, behind a big white SUV. And I'm talking HUGE, almost Hummer-sized. It's a right-hand turn, but there's a no turn on red sign so I'm not too worried that nobody's moving... until the light turns green. That SUV sits there for a couple seconds, then somebody starts making polite tap-tap-taps on their horn. Guy still doesn't move. Ten or fifteen seconds later, three other horns are tapping, including mine, trying to get the guy to move (I have no idea how he doesn't realize it's him). Finally he does move, and because I'm at the end of the line, I have to stomp on it to make it through the light.
But wait, it gets better. The very next light is red, and the guy in the white SUV is in front again, on the right portion of a two-lane left-hand-turn dealio. He apparently sees the other light going yellow/red, because he starts inching forward, until it seems like he misjudged the light order and stops - a half-second before the two green arrows fire. People start politely tapping their horns again. I didn't get involved, because I wasn't turning. What's weirder is, the left-portion of the turn lanes starts moving, but that guy just kept sitting there for no apparent reason. And this whole time I'm laughing to myself, facepalming and wondering how that guy is so oblivious to do this twice in a row. Then I jump about six inches off my seat when the plain-paint police car beside me blares his siren right through my open windows, making me choke on the sugar cookie I was eating.
The guy hops forward like a startled rabbit, giving me the chuckles for the rest of the drive home.
