So I’m driving in West End Halifax during rush hour yesterday evening, and, as expected, traffic is heavy. What I couldn’t believe were the number of cars that entered intersections without being able to leave due to queued traffic, thereby making it impossible for someone to complete a left turn. In several cases cars were still blocking the intersection after the lights had changed to red, so now the other road through the intersection is blocked…
What’s the difficulty with a little forward thinking and consideration?
—Think! People, think!
This article appears in May 21-27, 2009.
Hey, they are thinking! Just not about the driving.
People are fucking idiots. That’s the problem with forward thinking. 99.9% of the population isn’t capable of it.
This also drives me around the bend.
Courtesy seems to be as elusive as patience, therefore you have a quota of self-centered texting/phoning/distracted idiots who think they’re Kings/Queens of the fucking road. They not only have tunnelvision but they expect everyone else to mind read their intentions. I wish I could film every single infraction I see day after day – it would make you want to throttle those thoughtless wankers.
It’s a nasty, ever-spreading disease called HUB- Head Up Butt.
When I retire, I’m buying a 1975 Caddy and ramming these insensitive fuckers… And many others, too.
I want a bullhorn mounted on my roof so I can explode at will.
I’d actually prefer a perpetually whining Baby Born doll superglued to my roof.
I wish the device that plays the ipod on a radio frequency worked more than 5 feet so I could play hamster dance on repeat for everyone listening to “the fucking Q” while they piss me off.
This was a huge pet peeve of mine as a driver in Halifax.
But to digress for just a second, I would like to point out that Halifax doesn’t have a rush hour. It does have a congestion hour. there are too many cars on Halifax roads for its design. We need more lanes, fewer bottle necks and better drivers.
Ever see what happens at a protected left turn on a green light ( and no, i am not the one who posted that bitch before ). The driver in the front of that line usually mossies on through at 6 km/h.
You are supposed to enter an intersection if its safe and you are not impeding the flow of traffic. These ass holes need a ticket or two.
I’m going to buy a train horn and make these people wet themselves.