What is wrong with these people who try to squeeze through a yellow light when traffic is barely crawling along? Did you not notice that the light is changing and that there is NO ROOM for you to fit in the next block?
Now don’t you look stupid, sitting in the middle of the intersection, blocking traffic from running the other way, with pedestrians walking around your car like its a giant pylon. Cars honking at you as you try not to make eye contact with the legions of angry people surrounding you.
You people are such idiots! —Cage Hater
This article appears in Mar 4-10, 2010.
Hate it, happens all the time, what a piss-off !
Bayers Road and Connaught, all the time. And then I get screamed and sworn at when I start crossing the street, when Im supossed to. They’re running the light, not me. They can fucking wait. It is such a pet peeve of mine!
This happens A LOT on Jubilee, I think, and Robie. They block the intersection during rush hour and no one can get through. The other day there was ONE car just blocking robie and it was enough to back up robie quite a distance (jubilee was backed up A LOT and the guy was caught blocking robie for quite a few lights).
I think in that case the offender should be forced to turn in order to gtfo of the way.
my suggestion to you, is use your car as a battering ram, or a plow, and shove them out of the way. ah, you gotta fucking love road rage. old lady, back in the days of te real vw bug, sit thru 4 count em’ lights on joe howe and dutch village rds. by this time, i have had quite too much of it, oh, she was going straight, in the left turn lane btw. so i just snuggled my big ole 65 monarch up to her ass, and gently pushed her into the intersection, next time arrow came on. CAN’T DRIVE, OR DON’T KNOW HOW, STAY THE FUCK HOME.
I hate this. It happens all the time at North and Robie. Hell, anywhere along North really.
I really don’t know what makes people do it either. I think it’s the appearance that you get ahead 20 seconds quicker.
i i’m drivin i will just turn the tunes up and watch the mayhem…i have watched drivers convince other drivers through yelling and hand gestures to go and then it makes it worse. live in the moment
Or even better blocking a driveway or parking lot so other vehicles can’t get out.
Have you ever got caught in an intersection (maybe not because you were sneakin’ through a yellow light but because a bus 5 cars up has stopped and no one can go around… sigh)? It is so embarrassing. To me, that’s enough of a reason to try to avoid it for the rest of my driving life.
same thing with blocking other streets….when traffic is at a standstill, you still are not allowed to block sidestreets with your car. i love getting beeped at for not blocking a sidestreet lol…I wish they would do an entire 10 year series on NS WORST drivers. they could just sit at any intersection and laugh all day recording!
Cuja12: Or when you refuse to completely block the intersection (like the OP is bitching about) and the assholes behind you start honking at you for being a reasonable driver. When that happens, I wait til the light turns green again and I’ll sit there for an extra 5-10 seconds, just watching the idiot driver behind me going ballistic, then when they’re just about to pull out around me, I’ll move ahead.