Dear White Jetta Driver on Hwy 26
Dear Driver,
I am really excited that we have this chance to talk. I think its really important that I take a second to express my feelings about what I just saw occur. You are an asshole. No really, you are. And its not really the fact that you swerved back and forth across a 4 lane highway or were driving damn near twice as fast as the rest of us. The part that makes me really upset is that you didn’t once use your turn signals.
In the three minutes or so of speeding, swerving and riding peoples asses, that I could see before you made your way out of sight, not once did you give any indication of your intentions or directions. Now I want to be very clear on this point, I don’t want to know where you are going so I can follow you, or impact your driving in any way. I want to know where you are going so I can work my hardest to be as far away from you as I can at any given moment. Because while you have been very lucky ( 3 near accidents that I have seen so far) you wont always be. I want to know so that when you crash and your car roles across the highway and you die in a spectacular flaming mess, its only you and the people who love you that have a bad day. I want to make sure that when you meet your amazingly bright and flame-full death, I am far enough away that I barely hear the sirens marking your departure from this world.
So please, regardless of the rest of your driving habits, please use your turn signals when you intend to change lanes.
thanks
03 Apr 2008 Simeon
Sim,
Tell us how you really feel… dont’ hold back…
Nice one!
Phill
Very little pisses me off more than people who don’t use their turn signals. Of course, in FL, people think that signaling means “please make every effort possible to immediately cut me off in the direction I have indicated I’m going.”
Oh, wait, there are a few more things that piss me off more:
1) people who signal left and then make a right turn (or vice versa),
2) people who drive down the left lane of the highway going half the speed limit with their blinker still on, and
3) people who see me waiting for them to pass me at an intersection only to make a right turn at the intersection without signaling at all. Yeah, sure, I just wanted to waste thirty seconds of my life watching you drive down the road before you turned - no need to signal, @$$.
I hate it when people don’t have common courtesy on the roads. Put the robots in charge already.
You didn’t compose and blog this via text messaging while driving did you?
@Maxim,
You must be new to Florida. I’ve only ever driven here, but have come to understand a few things about driving in the Sunshine State:
>>please make every effort possible to immediately cut me off in the direction I have indicated I’m going.”
That’s why people in Florida don’t use their turn signals, it seems to display a weakness that others will exploit.
>>1) people who signal left and then make a right turn (or vice versa)
This is especially common for people making a left turn from the right lane or a right turn from the left lane.
>>2) people who drive down the left lane of the highway going half the speed limit with their blinker still on
I’ve come to understand that is their signal that they intend to stay in that lane, going twice the speed limit, so you better move out of their way.
>>3) people who see me waiting for them to pass me at an intersection only to make a right turn at the intersection without signaling at all.
That drives me crazy too, but see my first comment about why people in Florida don’t use turn signals.
Drive safe, and watch out for me, I’ll be the one actually using my turn signals correctly.
Very well stated. I HATE THAT! Stupid drivers…