Noilly Pratt
07-21-2011, 05:45 PM
Hey guys
Just wanted to share 2 examples of some impatient driving I experienced yesterday.
One was going onto the freeway and just before it there's a light with 2 lanes, at a left turn signal. The light is a very "stale" yellow, so I glide to a stop.
The guy behind me is furious with this, and wheels around me to the other unoccupied right lane and, finding a car half way into the intersection in his lane, yanks it hard left. Thankfully I didn't decide to go through on the yellow or else he would have sideswiped me. he came damn close to it, though. I'm going from my home in the 'burbs to the big city to drive my inlaws back to their place.
Then on my journey back, I hear sirens and it looks like the entire fire brigade is coming down the street towards me in the oncoming lane. This is in Burnaby and they must have a way of turning all the lights to Red, because we're all stopped at a major 20 lane intersection (4 lanes each and left turning lanes separated).
The fire trucks go through and I'm turning left on my separate traffic light. As luck would have it, we miss our rotation of the light, but buddy in front of me in a great big bus decides he needs to go left anyway so he goes on the solid red, but the straight through traffic light is green. This is a fast thoroughfare with speeds about 60kms if people stay legal (which they hardly do). If GF is reading this, it's the major intersection at the Brentwood mall.
I creep up to the line from the gap left from the bus, but I don't venture any further. Guy behind me lays on his horn. I ignore it as the light to turn left (a completely separate light remember) is solid red and by now there is traffic coming towards me.
When the other traffic light goes, buddy behind me comes out of his car, taps on my window and says "you're gonna go left at the next light, Right??" I just look at him and say "yeah yeah". And he goes back to his car. He was going to say more I think but I'm a big guy, nearly touching the ceiling of my van and he's a little short squat dude.
What he didn't realize is that All the lights were controlled by the fire department before and it screwed the sequence up.
So, my light turns green at the next cycle and I pull into the far right lane when it's safe to do so, and of course, macho man in the mini van behind me (I'm in my mini van too) floors it around me, showing me his obvious superiority. What an asshole!
I hate driving in the city. For this I took a half day off work???
Just wanted to share 2 examples of some impatient driving I experienced yesterday.
One was going onto the freeway and just before it there's a light with 2 lanes, at a left turn signal. The light is a very "stale" yellow, so I glide to a stop.
The guy behind me is furious with this, and wheels around me to the other unoccupied right lane and, finding a car half way into the intersection in his lane, yanks it hard left. Thankfully I didn't decide to go through on the yellow or else he would have sideswiped me. he came damn close to it, though. I'm going from my home in the 'burbs to the big city to drive my inlaws back to their place.
Then on my journey back, I hear sirens and it looks like the entire fire brigade is coming down the street towards me in the oncoming lane. This is in Burnaby and they must have a way of turning all the lights to Red, because we're all stopped at a major 20 lane intersection (4 lanes each and left turning lanes separated).
The fire trucks go through and I'm turning left on my separate traffic light. As luck would have it, we miss our rotation of the light, but buddy in front of me in a great big bus decides he needs to go left anyway so he goes on the solid red, but the straight through traffic light is green. This is a fast thoroughfare with speeds about 60kms if people stay legal (which they hardly do). If GF is reading this, it's the major intersection at the Brentwood mall.
I creep up to the line from the gap left from the bus, but I don't venture any further. Guy behind me lays on his horn. I ignore it as the light to turn left (a completely separate light remember) is solid red and by now there is traffic coming towards me.
When the other traffic light goes, buddy behind me comes out of his car, taps on my window and says "you're gonna go left at the next light, Right??" I just look at him and say "yeah yeah". And he goes back to his car. He was going to say more I think but I'm a big guy, nearly touching the ceiling of my van and he's a little short squat dude.
What he didn't realize is that All the lights were controlled by the fire department before and it screwed the sequence up.
So, my light turns green at the next cycle and I pull into the far right lane when it's safe to do so, and of course, macho man in the mini van behind me (I'm in my mini van too) floors it around me, showing me his obvious superiority. What an asshole!
I hate driving in the city. For this I took a half day off work???