I am driving down Robie. It is a 2 lane road, I’m cruising down the right lane while the left lane is backed up due to uncontrol left turning traffic. All of a sudden, there is a painted arrow on the road that tells me that I have to turn and I only have about 40 feet to lane change into the other lane. The other lane is full, so I come to a complete stop at the lights while keeping my signal lights on. When the light turned green, I tried to merge between the first and second vehicle, well, mainly because it is unlikely the first vehicle sees my signal light… can you guess what happened? The bitch in the second vehicle honked at me. WTF? She might know the subtlties of ROBIE street but I don’t. What right do you have to accuse me of trying to cheat traffic? F you bitch! —Just Doing My Best in Halifax
This article appears in May 2-8, 2013.
Yeah, they do that when you bike by them too. They’re just pissed off that you could do what they couldn’t… Wave – Smile – Wave – Laugh
Common courtesy would be to make the necessary turn as dictated by the lane markings of the lane you find yourself suddenly in and re-route. The turning lanes appear out of nowhere around here – its a certainty with such an old city where the roads were built around the buildings and not vice versa.
If you find yourself suddenly in a turning lane, too bad, cry me a river, turn where the lane tells you and find a way to get back on track legally. Blocking traffic who are trying to legitimately turn while you wait to correct your lack of foresight and attention to driving is rude. Cutting in front of someone who waited their turn in the queue is rude. Just make the turn the damned turn and deal with the consequences. Will another 2 minutes on your trip kill you? If it does, then accept the fact that this will happen around here and adjust your departure times accordingly.
I can just hear the excuses now for the queue jumpers on the new bridge “I though this lane went to the bridge – but I only use it when the real lane to the bridge is backed up”… meanwhile no one can drive onto Barrington until the douchbaggery gets to merge. And… like a stray cat, you feed it once and it will keep coming back… as will the queue jumpers..
Let me help you with this: when you decided that it’s time to get into the proper lane, you ‘ask’ to be let in. Whether it was an honest mistake of not knowing the area of Robie Street or if you were jumping the line doesn’t matter to the people who have been waiting patiently. You simply appear to be impatient, whether or not you simply didn’t know. Now you have to wait until someone is nice enough to let you in or take your lumps in doing the right hand turn and finding a way to get swung around.
Personally, I’d honk and block you if you were aggressive about the insertion. Ask nicely, and you might receive!
ustwess FTW.
Make the turn, go into the station or someone’s driveway to turn around, and follow the damn rules next time. If you get lost within a block of the intersection, you need to turn in your keys…
We already have enough people driving like rude assholes, we really don’t need any more.
I don’t think even “asking” is allowable in my books. You’re asking permission from the closest car to you, you’re NOT asking the pile of cars behind that one who would now have to wait on you as well. Sorry, but after witnessing so any douche bags cutting on the road, I would have assumed the same thing from you.
WOW… You must be the dumbest human being on the face of the planet, OB. You got honked at because you are an unbelievably ignorant, and self centred twat. You picked your lane, live with the consequences and turn right. Don’t hold up traffic and then get butthurt when someone honks at your stupid ass!!!!
At least a twat’s useful. Otherwise, right on the coin, SHITDman.
T.T. ….A twat is useful while the it still amuses ,after such time it’s booted to the curb.
HARPER. You da man. I was at the corner of Willett and Dunbrack. Light turns green. Car in front doesn’t move for at least 5 secs (going straight on Willett), so I honk my horn 3x. The motorist decides to go. Approach Willett and Main, the car is turning left and I’m still going straight. I pulled up beside her and ask my wife WTF was going on (because I’m paying attention to driving). The bitch was texting the whole time.
Senor It should be legal for other drivers to smack some sense into stupid snatches like that.
WHATACROCK. I’m to the boiling point. It should be legal to confront the driver and take their device, gently place it on the ground and stomp the fuck out of it. Then reply, “Drive Safely!”
You see the same assholes speeding up quinpool on the right past the queue of commuters and then trying to get back in at the street before oxford because they ‘didn’t realize’ parking starts at 9am and 1/2 the street is blocked. Fuck ’em. Sorry to any out of towners coming in to the big city for doctor/lawyer appointments, collateral damage.
Senor That would work too.
OP you’re an asshole for thinking this is acceptable. Especially since you were cruising past them all. You should have turned right and took another route. Or take your ass back to the country if you don’t know the roads.
Actually the OB is right. When it comes to lane marking and signage, this city sucks. A sign 100 m back showing what each lane does would correct the problem. But then again this is HRM and common sense is lacking in the Transportation Department.
Sure it sucks… but own your decisions instead of fucking with everyone else.
There’s never only ONE route to anywhere in this city.
I made a wrong turn this past friday coming off the macdonald bridge.
I swung around and took a right on barrington instead of stopping at the light and making a left…. it was out of instinct.
I’d done it way too many times before when I lived downtown.
Did I just flat out parking brake u-ey across 3 lanes, cutting everyone on barrington off?
NO, I sucked it up and ended up getting caught downtown while the fucking stupid rotund sea concert was getting out.
Tripled my time to get home but I owned up to my mistake and lo-and-behold, not one person honked at me or was pissed off.
The city is stupid because streets aren’t clearly marked and therefore you can’t know where the fuck you’re going unless you KNOW already where you’re going.
Haligonians are stupid because haligonians are too dumb to realize that you have to learn where you want to go and don’t magically arrive in HRM knowing the ins and outs of weird streets that aren’t even straight.
You’re stupid because you cut someone off in traffic and clearly either didn’t do a shoulder check or didn’t get any solid information from your shoulder check. Or were just plain damn inpatient and tried to cut someone off.
See why there are so many accidents around this stupid city?
Realchick i find your comment ironic
“Go back to the country”
I moved here from a very large city. This city is backasswards when it comes to adequately labeling lanes. In the absence of straight streets, this is unacceptable.
You’re one of the stupid haligonians i referred to above. You don’t arrive in this weird city just KNOWING any more than you being you doesn’t automatically mean i have any clue what you look like. Myopic almost on the level of a three year old who refers to all his friends as if you already know who they are.
This is the logic you just used.
Poor ole’ cry-baby car drivers!
yes meaty. Be free from transportation woes. Take Metro Transit 😀
It happens OP but you gotta take the honks like a grownup, you made a mistake, I sympathize, but deal with the honk.
so…eats crayons….how many people have responded to your request for directions by starting ‘well, you know where such and such used to be? well, you go past that…..”
I love that good dog! Everyone in this city tells where things are by where something use to be lol!
Mr eats crayon…. I understand your comment totally and it makes sense. My piss off about OP is that they felt they were entitled to cutting in when they should have taken the turn and chose a new route. This city is not marked well at all. But the fact that they were cruising down a lane while the other lane was completely backed up should have sent off signals in their head that their lane did not go straight? Maybe my remark was ironic. I haven’t slept in years so I don’t always make sense 😉
determinedly blind, they are. to merrily tootle down a surprisingly free lane smirking at the lineup to the left, then hurt and dismayed when they are not forgiven and let in
however, the signage around here lacks….and i suspect it has some relationship to the type of culture that thinks telling a newcomer to go look ‘where such and such used to be’ makes perfect sense.
i google everything then leave an hour early.
OB, didn’t you fcking know that in order to go straight in this city, you need to lane change into the traffic jam, because the empty fcking lane doesn’t go anywhere that you want to fcking go.