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It’s not the end of the world, but it would be nice if you put your signal on for that left turn before the light turns green. It would be even nicer when there’s a right lane.
In Vancouver it’s good cause for road rage. Here, it’s the usual. What gives?
—come again
This article appears in Apr 9-15, 2009.
9 Comments
i agree 10000000% People here are just not very good at using their indicators
Maybe they’re texting, checking the GPS, changing the DVD, balancing the cheque book, putting on make-up……….
When it comes to signalling here, people are complete fucking idiots. They think “oh, they’re far enough back” or “they’ll figure it out when I start to turn” or some other idiotic shit like that. In the summer time I take great pleasure in pulling up next to people who I’ve seen make several turns without signalling and telling them “you’re blinkers are broken” and most will reply “no they’re not” and I get the chance to respond “THEN FUCKING USE THEM!!!”. Always puts a smile on my face.
Some people drive as if the rest of us are telepathic to their route and should anticipate their need to turn. Either that or they’re just humming ‘Turkey in the Straw’ in their head.
yeah, what is that? I’ve been bitching about this for a while and I certainly wasn’t the first. What advantage does turning your blinker on when the light finally turns green have OTHER than to just piss everyone else behind you off?
I’d rather you not use it so I can assume it’s broken than see you use it and know you’re just an inconsiderate fucking jerk who wants everyone to hit you.
Easily my #1 beef with hali-drivers.
I love the ones that use the straight lane to turn left rather than their designated left-turning lane that they’re supposed to be using. They actually block all traffic, signal that they’re turning left and leave that left-turning lane completely empty.
Another funny story?
On spring garden road, driving up the street, going towards public gardens, where the Cabbies park and wait for a fair.
A cabbie decided to get out of a spot that was behind another cabbie, right onto the middle of one of the lanes of spring garden road. Stops next to that Cabbie, Blocking traffic mind you, and just casually sits there and chats to him.
I honked a couple of times, no response, 6 cars behind me.. all waiting for that jackass to clear the road, instead of just parking there and casually chatting to his buddy!!
I honked a couple more times, still no response, so I laid on the horn. Finally after a few seconds of constant horn, he looks back at me as if I’m in the wrong, and them moves his car to park in front of the cabbie he was chatting with. When I advance he yells at me: You have a problem!!!.
I park and get out of my car to go to parklane, what to I see, that same cab driver, in the same parking space he moved to, with him out of his car, chatting with his buddy.
And that’s driving in Halifax for you!:)
In Vancouver? Vancouver is a huge city full of heroin addicts! And they spend their lives in traffic rushing off to sit in traffic again. No wonder they are all on heroin!
This is a small town. Get used to it or get out. We’ll fuckin’ signal if we want to. What’s the hurry? Take your big city attitude back to the big city- we’re at capacity here. Vancouver? Fuck off.
MK, how could you possibly sound that stupid in so few words? amazing… must be a gift.
Do me a favor…
take off the helmet and go play in traffic. Bet you’ll wish they were signaling then.
Can we just reflect on the sheer laziness a person has to have to talk themselves out of signalling? It is LITERALLY lifting a finger to help other people.
Of course, I’m sure there are some people who stroked out at some point after their driver’s test and have forgotten about that strange lever thing entirely. Let’s just hope they don’t forget, in traffic, what the pedals and wheel do.