~400 of you people really cheese me off!

[Randalls]

Oh yeah. That's the bit.

[chas_m]

Signaling is like any other good driving habit. It's a habit. You can't help yourself -- that is, if you're not lying about how often you do it.

It's like spelling. I can't not spell things correctly.*

*the occasional (rare) typo aside.**

**Grammar is another story.

[Jim D.]

Sometimes I think that I'm the only person in Missouri who uses their turn signals. (Or knows how to merge onto a freeway!)

Jim D.

[Mike Sellers]

Why limit this to turn signals? What really gets me steamed is people making left turns in crowded intersections who pull out on a yellow, even though the lane their pulling into is jammed, and then sit in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic when the lights change. They act all oblivious and give that I-can't-help-it shrug when people start honking at them. If I were emperor of the universe, military helicopters with huge claws would swoop down, snatch them out of traffic and dump their sorry carcasses in the nearest junkyard.

[Zoidberg]

When I use the turn signal, it's a warning, not a request.



But many will see someone put on a turn signal (mostly speaking of a lane change) and then speed up to cut a person off. That's when I wish I had a 70s land barge with fenders filled with concrete.

[Grateful11]

I guessed it without even looking first, too d@mn lazy to use them, I knew it.

This actually happened to me when I was 17 yo and driving a
VW Beetle. A friend of mine had ran out gas while driving
home from school. I stopped and picked him up. I was about
to drive up to a gas station and turn in. All of sudden he
says "turn into this one!" So I whipped it in there and
about that time this pickup pulls up behind us and these
two redneck looking goons jump out and start cussing,
ranting and raving about me not giving a signal. They were
yelling about me trying to kill their kids in the bed of
the pickup. Here we were both like in shock all apologizing
and stuff and wondering if we were going to get the crap
beat beat out of us. I mean I as like 5' 11" 135lbs and my
friend was like 5'9" 130 lbs and here we were with two
rednecks about to kill us. Believe me I've always been one
for using a turn signals, the only reason I didn't was
because he told me whip in the station because he had his
dads credit card and frankly there wasn't time to use a
signal. I guess that scene is still stuck in my mind 26
yars later, I now use turn signal everywhere except pullng
out of parking lots. I really felt like I was about an inch
high that day. I hate when people don't give signals, I've
seen Highway Patrolman, Deputy's, you name not giving
signals. I like for people to know what I'm getting ready
to do.

[richorlin]

It's bad enough that people DON'T use turn sugnals when they should, but when they DO use them when changing lanes, they expect you to get out of their way. They don't wait until it's safe to move - they just bull their way into your lane. God-forbid you're in "their" spot.
Jeez! I think common courtesy when driving died in this country. Of course, in a lot of countries I've been to, it never existed in the first place.

[Lux Interior]

My favorite is the a-hole trifecta: Changing lanes in an intersecion without signaling after running a red light.

Seacrest Wrote:
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> My Dad, Josef Goebbels, instilled in me the notion
> that turn signal use should be a reflex. I use
> them without thinking about it.


A reflex for me, too. I find myself signaling at the bottom of my driveway.

[sscutchen]

richorlin Wrote:
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> It's bad enough that people DON'T use turn sugnals when they should, but when they DO use them when
> changing lanes, they expect you to get out of their way. They don't wait until it's safe to move
> - they just bull their way into your lane.

Shoot yeah! Most folks in Houston only USE their turn signals when there is no place for them to fit... They turn on the signal, then bull their way in!

"WHAT!?!! I HAD my turn signal on, you a-hole!!"

Anyone here who tries to use their turn signal for intent to move into an existing opening has done nothing more than warn the other drivers, who will quickly move to fill the void and block the signaller.

[Kiva]

i cringe when I catch myself not using them....i'm pretty good though...

the one I hate to watch is when people pass those trucks on the freeway and cut right in front of them after they pass. If they have to stop suddenly, that physics class they flunked will come back to haunt them. I can only imagine what the truckers think of this.

also, a fun thing to do to tailgaters on the freeway: use your windshield washer fluid. it goes up over your car and onto theirs...they usually get the message and I haven't been shot yet... :-)

kiva