Friday, July 19, 2013
Road Rage?
I was returning from picking up our remaining Color Me Rad race kits from Down Town. 4 people had not picked theirs up. One I knew for sure, but if the other 3 aren't running, our team will only be 25. Anyways I was going southbound on Donald in the left hand turn lane to Osborne coming to a red light. A lady in a convertible was pulling out of a parking lot, so I let her in and she took the next lane over. The light was still red, so I let another lady in a mini van exit into my lane. I immediately heard honking behind me. At first I paid no attention to it. Then the honking continued as the light turned green. I slowly advanced and looked in my rear view. Some older man was signalling 1, 2, 3 with his fingers, pumping his hand on each count and mouthing out the numbers. I found this odd. He did it a few times. Was he counting the cars I let in? No, it was only two. The seconds it took for them to enter traffic? Not really sure. I shrugged at him. He continued to count to 3 on his fingers and I shrugged again. I turned left and came to another red light. This man pulled up behind and again blatantly counted to 3 on his fingers. What's with this guy? I was just being considerate of others. Really, neither car affected him. The first lady took a different lane and when we turned the second lady took the 1st lane and this old guy and I took the 2nd lane. We all made the light and with traffic in front of us, would not have advanced through the intersection. So I closed my fists and made like I was rubbing my eyes to signal that he's crying. He then laughed and clapped at me. What has our society come to when letting 2 people into traffic upsets someone to the point that he's honking and trying to indicate that I let too many people in. Really, I don't see the big deal. Well this man pulled into the first lane behind traffic while I advanced and pulled into the same lane several cars ahead. I never did see him the rest of my route home. As long as people signal and aren't trying to blatantly cut the line, I have no problem letting people into my lane. Obviously with these two ladies exiting a parking lot, neither of them violated these "rules" that I tend to follow. So to my fellow drivers, be courteous to each other and we'll have that many less angry people on the road.
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