Once again, someone trying to be "polite" while driving has fucked me over. Repeat after me: the most polite thing you can do while driving is the thing everyone expects you to do. - ThreadSky

johnbrownstan.bsky.social • 31 days ago

Once again, someone trying to be "polite" while driving has fucked me over.

Repeat after me: the most polite thing you can do while driving is the thing everyone expects you to do.

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spankyq.bsky.social•31 days ago

Fucking this so fucking much

bentripp.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is the motorcyclist's mantra for drivers: don't be polite, be predictable.

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•30 days ago

And it would be fucking awesome if more of them would adhere to that mantra.

tigerpournelle.bsky.social•31 days ago

THANK you. People who stop to "let people go" get people killed.

shamanblackbear.bsky.social•31 days ago

Driving in the South: This post gets a Like, A Comment and a "Please Show Less of This."

*Activates flying gear.*

slumlordthanatos.bsky.social•31 days ago

Don't be polite. Be predictable.

nietszeggende.bsky.social•30 days ago

Be predictable, not polite.

hurricanexyz.bsky.social•31 days ago

Right of way exists for a reason

k-nightgyr.bsky.social•31 days ago

I was just in a car going through the Bronx, I agree

nerdy70.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yup, just follow the rules of the road!

319e17th.bsky.social•31 days ago

Was trying to take a left on my bike yesterday. Lady across from me, right signal on, insistent on yielding the ROW, I had to abandon the turn and circle back.

fackindoom.bsky.social•31 days ago

I do this on foot, bike, and skateboard. I'd rather the car just get out of the way than go in front of a car.

319e17th.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yeah, no telling when they’ll change their mind.

alixdragon.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yes because it’s safer to have them in view than behind you

frillig.bsky.social•31 days ago

Driving is like a fight: the point is to not get hit. The best way to do that is tell everyone what you’re about to do. In my opinion.

unmitigatedgaul1.bsky.social•31 days ago

Preach.

masonman250.bsky.social•30 days ago

iwymtaitw.bsky.social•31 days ago

a few weeks ago some “nice” guy in a pick-up truck stopped in the middle of a busy road to let me take a left turn (if he had just continued driving i would’ve been able to). i thought he was trying to take a turn without using his blinker, so i didn’t go. he got pissed and gave me the finger 🤩

rj-cooper.bsky.social•30 days ago

if ALL drivers filled the rules, no accidents

crabbydaddy.bsky.social•31 days ago

EXACTLY! Why tf is that so hard?

chowdster.bsky.social•31 days ago

Washington drivers are too polite.
At least LA drivers are selfish in a predictable way

alixdragon.bsky.social•31 days ago

Oh yes! The people that politely stop to let you cross against the road rules, causing a pile up.

The people that let other drivers merge in, on the green light.

The driver that waves the pedestrian to cross, the pedestrian declines, but driver just sits there expecting compliance. (I said no.)

joeythehepcat.bsky.social•31 days ago

Or just follow the basic rules of driving

That’s always helpful 🐾🐾

craigrcarl.bsky.social•30 days ago

Absolutely true! I live in the PA countryside where drivers are TOO courteous, risking accidents.

rppvt.bsky.social•30 days ago

One’s whole job is to stay out of the way and know where you are.

sexcoffeedead.bsky.social•31 days ago

You mean like when they stop but they don’t have a stop sign

rhetorusrex.bsky.social•31 days ago

The road is not a place for charity.

itsmeandyp.bsky.social•30 days ago

When I lived in Michigan I almost died 1000 times when the person ahead of me stopped dead in their tracks to ‘politely’ wave over someone who did NOT have the right of way but was waiting to pull out of a driveway on the side. I nicknamed it “the Michigan Gooo ahead.” Idiots.

liquidparanoia.bsky.social•29 days ago

I just ignore them till they proceed through the intersection or whatever.
The people that stop in the middle of a roundabout are the most confusing.

fackindoom.bsky.social•31 days ago

I have a new habit when walking to play on my phone until cars clear the intersection so I can cross without walking in traffic.

alixdragon.bsky.social•31 days ago

I know right, because if you expect them to stop they don’t, and you’ll be the one that comes off second best. I just stop way before the crossing so they just go, especially if I’m walking my dog

wyrdway.bsky.social•31 days ago

Sometimes I'll pretend to tie my shoe just to make them go ahead and pass through

fackindoom.bsky.social•31 days ago

That's a good move too.

drmick.bsky.social•31 days ago

Nothing sends me into a blind fury like someone trying to wave me through an intersection that they arrived at several seconds before I did

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•30 days ago

Nope. Not waiting for that. If I pull up to a four-way and there are two idiots who can't figure out who's going to go, I'm going. This drives me absolutely nuts. It's not that difficult of a concept.

canucklehead24.bsky.social•31 days ago

Omg yes! NO! YOU GO! I just keep shaking my head no. Or the guy who drives slowly to the 4 way so they don't have to make the decision.

pragmaticpolitic.bsky.social•30 days ago

Nope I'm going. You tell me go, I'm not sitting around and waiting for you to play your games. I don't have time. It's when I'm behind the person that's waving everybody through because they can't figure out when they have the right of way that I feel that rage.

pbfishtaco.bsky.social•31 days ago

I know, what a concept

patrocalypse.bsky.social•31 days ago

Yeah traffic laws exist so that we don’t need an ad-hoc solution in every encounter

epicciuto.bsky.social•31 days ago

This is why I hate driving in MoCo

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