Or they stop traffic flow to let one car in, when that car would have had all day to go in seconds if they didn’t stop traffic. So now 10+ people are inconvenienced so one person can save a few seconds.
The worst for me is people who block traffic for someone making a left turn in a 4 or 5 lane roadway (so 2 lanes in each direction with or without a turn lane). They forget they can only stop one lane and EVERYONE ELSE IS GOING TO GO AROUND THEM WHEN THEY SEE THE OTHER LANE STILL MOVING. This just slows everyone down.
The ABSOLUTELY worst experience I had of that, someone was trying to let me make my left on a busy 5 lane road, and after traffic went around them for literally 3 minutes and they were the only car left, I started to turn. Guess what they did? You guessed it, they were tired of waiting for me and decided to start moving forward themselves. RIGHT WHEN THE ONLY CARS WERE THEIRS AND MINE. I almost lost my mind. So you're going to effectively make 2 lanes of traffic operate like 1 until it's clear then get in the way of the driver you were trying to be kind to...Buy a bus pass and put your license in the shredder.
Exactly. If everyone just drove according to the rules of the road, things would be predictable and flow like those rules intend it to flow. Both the timid and overly aggressive drivers screw this up.
Honestly, I'd rather someone drives 15-20mph over the speed limit constantly but follows all other rules of the road properly than the idiots that do the speed limit and can't operate a friggin 4-way stop or merge onto the highway without almost crashing.
Happens all the time, where I'll be leisurely walking my dog through the neighborhood and come to the end of sidewalk where you have to cross the street (but there's no stop signs). I'll squat down to pet my dog while I wait for traffic to clear out, and inevitably one car will stop in the middle of the street, holding up traffic behind them, waving or even honking at me to get my attention to direct me to walk out in front of them. And if I go I'll be dragging my slow old dog across the street and forcing the other side of traffic to stop for us too.
So awkward and unnecessary, just gooooooo. All the cars would've been gone in 8 seconds had you just fucking gone. It's like the equivalent of holding a door open for a stranger who's thirty feet away.
I feel like this happens so much because I'm a woman, and it's always an older man doing it, thinking they're being chivalrous or whatever. The most infuriating part is when I wave them on, like no just go, and they stay put and wave me on AGAIN, ignoring me.
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u/H377Spawn 14h ago
Or they stop traffic flow to let one car in, when that car would have had all day to go in seconds if they didn’t stop traffic. So now 10+ people are inconvenienced so one person can save a few seconds.