Driving Quiz
Posted on | July 8, 2008 at 9:21 pm | 5 Comments
Today, we’re having a little quiz for all you drivers out there. It’s very important to practice road etiquette. Nice people get to where they want to go. Rude people do too, but they piss off other people while doing it. Is it more important to follow the rules of the road, or to do whatever it is you need to do to get somewhere on time? What would you do in the following scenarios?
Scenario 1
You are a big white van in a left hand turn lane at a stoplighted intersection, but you have decided you don’t really want to turn left, you want to go straight. You are the only one in the left hand turn lane and there is no one in the right hand lanes next to you going straight through the intersection. However, there is a Prius on the opposite side of the intersection also making a left turn. Do you:
A) Make the left turn anyway, and figure out some way to turn around and get back to where you wanted to go.
B) Back up the van and reposition yourself in one of the straight-thru lanes before the light turns green.
C) Sit there blocking traffic for no good reason while you decide what to do next.
D) Go straight through the intersection right when the light turns green, thereby causing the Prius on the other side of the intersection to almost slam into you as it turns left because the Prius driver didn’t think anyone on the other side was going straight. Then stop in the middle of the intersection when the Prius slams on his brakes and honks at you, and then scream at the Prius driver.
Scenario 2
You are in a big old SUV on a crowded but wide 5-lane one-way street during the morning rush hour. You are in the second lane from the right. As you approach a stoplighted intersection with another one-way street (which goes left to right), you decide you need to turn right on that street even though you are in the lane that goes straight through the intersection. It is not a double turn lane, and cars in the lane to your right can either turn right at the intersection or go through it, in which case they have to turn right at the next intersection. Also, there is a red light camera at the intersection. The Prius beside you in the right lane does not have a turn signal blinking and is obviously intending to turn right at the second intersection, not the first one.
Do you:
A) Go straight through the intersection and make a right at the next intersection so that you can eventually turn right again and get back going to where you wanted to go.
B) Slow down so that you can get behind the Prius in the right lane and make the right turn.
C) Wait for Thunderbird 2 to swoop in and lift you from the one road and carry you to the other road.
D) Speed up on the yellow light and make the right turn anyway even though you are in the totally wrong lane for it, thereby cutting off and nearly sideswiping the Prius in the right lane.
If you answered D to either of the two scenarios above, then you could be one of the assholes I recently encountered on the road.
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “weall in the sky keeps on turning”.
Comments
5 Responses to “Driving Quiz”
July 8th, 2008 @ 11:51 pm
Not enough information for either scenario. Am I also:
A) Talking hands-free on a cell phone
B) Talking non-hands-free on a cell phone
C) Texting a message
or
D) Talking hands-free on one cell phone while texting a message on another
?
July 9th, 2008 @ 6:19 am
Dude, go to Wikipedia and look up the “hook turn” sometime, then try complaining about Denver drivers. It’ll just catch in your throat.
Oh yeah, and if the Prius is so great, why does it still get cut off in traffic? hmm? Thought so.
July 9th, 2008 @ 12:08 pm
People are insane. I was driving on a multilane oneway in the left turn option lane, i.e. the next to leftmost lane where you can either go straight or turn left. The leftmost lane is left turn only.
I began my left turn and only just barely noticed in time that the epsilon in the left turn lane had decided to go through the intersection. Arghhh.
July 9th, 2008 @ 12:46 pm
I began my left turn and only just barely noticed in time that the epsilon in the left turn lane had decided to go through the intersection.
I see that all the time. 6th & Lincoln is a good place to observe that blunder.
July 10th, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
In Louisville, CO in 2 weeks I saw 2 different drivers make right turns from the left turn lane! Must be a local custom.