Tell Me Why You Don't Use Turn Signals

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a MD driver. Learned to drive in MD. I use my signal and if the person doesn’t let me in, so what. They’re the rude person. Someone will eventually be kind enough to let me in. And if not, well, my NYC parents are the ones that taught me to drive and I can push my way in if need be.

Oh someone will let you in. Are you one of those jerkho drive past a long line of exit traffic and the try to merge in at the end from the through lane?

NP - I am not one of those 98% of the time. In 2% of cases, the back up is so long before the exit around here, ihave not known the linę was for my exit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a MD driver. Learned to drive in MD. I use my signal and if the person doesn’t let me in, so what. They’re the rude person. Someone will eventually be kind enough to let me in. And if not, well, my NYC parents are the ones that taught me to drive and I can push my way in if need be.

Oh someone will let you in. Are you one of those jerkho drive past a long line of exit traffic and the try to merge in at the end from the through lane?

NP - I am not one of those 98% of the time. In 2% of cases, the back up is so long before the exit around here, ihave not known the linę was for my exit.

A different NP - I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and let you in. Promise. And it will cost me nothing!

[Anonymous]

When I put on my turn signal and someone doesn’t let me in, I…take two seconds and allow them to pass, then go.

This is not rocket science, morons.

[Anonymous]

I use them to turn, but stop using turn signals to change lanes when I moved to Maryland. Instead of letting me in or ignoring me, people would actively try to cut me off and prevent me from changing lanes. So now it's a surprise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I put on my turn signal and someone doesn’t let me in, I…take two seconds and allow them to pass, then go.

This is not rocket science, morons.

If you are not in a congested crowded area, it's not rocket science.

If you are on 270 or the beltway during rush hour when it's bumper to bumper and people actively cut you off because you are using a turn signal, it's best not to use a turn signal and be able to change lanes for your exit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I put on my turn signal and someone doesn’t let me in, I…take two seconds and allow them to pass, then go.

This is not rocket science, morons.

If you are not in a congested crowded area, it's not rocket science.

If you are on 270 or the beltway during rush hour when it's bumper to bumper and people actively cut you off because you are using a turn signal, it's best not to use a turn signal and be able to change lanes for your exit.

I’ve driven rush hour on 270, the Beltway, and major roads in San Francisco, LA, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dallas, Dublin, London, etc. If you can’t navigate big-girl traffic without using your turn signal—as you legally must and morally should—it’s because you are an incompetent driver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I put on my turn signal and someone doesn’t let me in, I…take two seconds and allow them to pass, then go.

This is not rocket science, morons.

If you are not in a congested crowded area, it's not rocket science.

If you are on 270 or the beltway during rush hour when it's bumper to bumper and people actively cut you off because you are using a turn signal, it's best not to use a turn signal and be able to change lanes for your exit.

I’ve driven rush hour on 270, the Beltway, and major roads in San Francisco, LA, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dallas, Dublin, London, etc. If you can’t navigate big-girl traffic without using your turn signal—as you legally must and morally should—it’s because you are an incompetent driver.

I learned to drive in downtown Boston and I am totally Masshole driver and the turn signal business in DC is a bridge to far!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When I put on my turn signal and someone doesn’t let me in, I…take two seconds and allow them to pass, then go.

This is not rocket science, morons.

If you are not in a congested crowded area, it's not rocket science.

If you are on 270 or the beltway during rush hour when it's bumper to bumper and people actively cut you off because you are using a turn signal, it's best not to use a turn signal and be able to change lanes for your exit.

I’ve driven rush hour on 270, the Beltway, and major roads in San Francisco, LA, NYC, Baltimore, Detroit, Indianapolis, Dallas, Dublin, London, etc. If you can’t navigate big-girl traffic without using your turn signal—as you legally must and morally should—it’s because you are an incompetent driver.

I learned to drive in downtown Boston and I am totally Masshole driver and the turn signal business in DC is a bridge to far!

Let me guess: you get on the Beltway or 270 and immediately have to nose over to the “fast lane,” only to have to desperately start switching back lane by lane to the right to make your exit just a few moments later. Slow clap for you. Maybe if you contented yourself to stay in the lane your exit is in—or one over—instead of your screeching, signal-less theatrics, you wouldn’t find it “so hard to use your turn signal.”

[Anonymous]

If I see you using a turn signal for a lane change, I’m more inclined to let you in. It’s the jerks that don’t signal that I speed up for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then there's those who don't turn it off after.

My mom kept not doing that for 200 miles on a trip after lane changes. After awhile she started scowling at me every time I mentioned it on that trip.

Florida driver 101. I experienced this when learning to drive in 1997.

[Anonymous]

Not using a turn signal to change lanes is less safe than using one. It's really that simple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What about the people on one of our lovely residential routes (not the beltway) who simply stop because they want to make a left but don't signal.

Still waiting for an explanation on this one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, just so you can speed up and cut me off? No thanks.

I'm not obligated to let you in front of me.

Just wait your turn. Why do you feel entitled that your turn signal gives you a free pass to go in front of someone ?

[Anonymous]

The only correct answer is because I’m a lazy ignoramus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The only correct answer is because I’m a lazy ignoramus.

And don’t forget “entitled.”