My policy

[muck_a_luck]

Just so you know...

If I am in a right on red situation.

And you honk at me.

I won't go. Just out of spite. I will park at that light til it turns green.

That's my policy, and I'm sticking by it.

And in case you were wondering, one of the single most rude things ever happened to me while I was driving today.

I was at a light. The protected left turn signals were on. The left turners were turning. Lots of them. I was turning right, but did not have any sort of protected light or anything. I was waiting til it was safe and polite to go. The guy immediately behind me honked for me to go, as people are wont to do. Then he did it again. Then he honked again, and gestured that I should turn. When I ignored him, he honked several more times.

In accordance with the policy above, I didn't go.

I am a one woman campaign for good behavior in traffic. :)

Comments

[hils.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

I'm the same in that I will not cross a pedestrian crossing until the little green man says it is safe to do so. Even if there are no cars around.

Honking cars annoy me. As do cyclists who ride on the pavement.

Oh dear, I'm in rant mode now

*scurries off to own journal*

[rynalwyn.livejournal.com]

Let me guess. Was he in an SUV or pick up truck? Most of the time people who piss me off while I'm driving are in one or the other. SUVs mostly, these days.

I have one of those quirks, myself. We have this ramp going from one expressway to another that I take every single day on the way home. The right lane runs out. The left does not. It's a very busy stretch, and is most always fairly backed up. Every day, people will fly up that right lane as far as they can and then try to force their way back into the left lane. If I can manage it without wrecking, I will. not. let those people in front of me. I will ride the bumper of the car in front of me before I let some jackass in a rusty pick up truck that just swerved out of the left lane and floored it so he could gain three car lengths cut in front of me. God, so much road rage.

I suppose I'm one of those badly behaved drivers. :) But I've never honked at anyone!

[sharra115.livejournal.com]

You Go Girl! I do the same thing! Add me to the campaign for good behavior in traffic. And if I can't do something, I mearly curse the other drivers, but i doesn't affect how I am driving, I shout but still am polite if you do as you should when driving. Like using turn signals! I will let you in, IF you let me know that you want over, and NOT by just trying to cram over into my space. Anyway,I need sleep, so we can continue the campaign tomorrow.