PSA: it is 100% ok to miss your exit or turn when driving

[Anonymous]

Those of you who disrupt the flow or pull some dangerous maneuver last minute… I don’t know who the hell gave you a license, but don’t be stupid - a good driver sometimes misses their turn. A bad driver never misses their turn.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I agree with you in theory, of course. I do understand why people unfamiliar with driving in and around DC panic and do crazy maneuvers to make the exit, though. If you miss your exit on the GW Parkway near the Memorial Bridge, for example, you don't get a chance to turn around for quite some time. Driving on the Rock Creek Parkway can be similarly fraught. I don't know how you all navigated the tangled up roads by the Kennedy Center or the Memorial Drive/GW Parkway zig-zags without GPS.

[Anonymous]

True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

The more important question is whether everyone around her survived. Good Lord!

[Anonymous]

A good reminder OP, agree! Sure there are exceptions, like PP pointed out, but really you are typically talking about 5-8 minutes of looping back around--not worth an accident or your safety (or that of others).

[Anonymous]

I am always flabergasted by people willing to take huge risks instead of missing accidents. Baffling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

I have seen this multiple times. How do people not think they will get in an accident???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

Witnessed the same on the GW Parkway, except in that case it was a man. I came very close to hitting him at 50mph.

[Anonymous]

Also it’s ok to leave the highway to check gps. Please don’t pull off halfway to do this. Take an exit, find a safer spot to check - with car parked.

[Anonymous]

Asian Woman Driver????
Racist much?!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

I’ve never seen someone do this IN THE TRAFFIC LANE, only on the shoulder. Good lord. Here’s another one:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

I saw someone do this on GW Parkway, going northbound and for the Spout Run exit.

Naturally, they had Maryland plates.

It's mind boggling the sh!t people do. I don't care how annoying it is to miss your exit, don't do this sh!t, ever.

[Anonymous]

And this is my favorite 😬

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True story: I was driving on 395 once and witnessed a young woman in the right lane BACKING UP because she had missed her exit.

She had a phone in her left hand which she was talking into as she craned her neck to see behind her.

I have no idea if she actually survived.

I’ve never seen someone do this IN THE TRAFFIC LANE, only on the shoulder. Good lord. Here’s another one:

What’s extra-baffling about this guy (besides the obvious) is that he gets back into the right LANE, instead of simply staying on the shoulder. Like, if you’re going to go backward illegally, at least do it in the most semi-quasi-sorta-safe-esque-ish way possible.