Remember when we first learned to drive we were taught etiquette by our parents or our High School shop teacher who took us on Student Driver Education lessons? What were those simple things? Signal your intention for one. If we were going to make a turn we pressed down or up on the indicator light so the guy in back of us knew where in God’s name we were going. Why don’t people signal? I have tried to figure this out to no avail. At first I thought well they’re just lazy. Lazy? Only a few muscles are involved and after you make the turn the signal light goes off automatically. Really? Then I thought even worse notions. Like they were just inconsiderate. That’s a judgment but it was hard to let go of that one. But then I took the high road they were just ignorant because their parents or student driver instructor never told them about driver etiquette
The second etiquette I thought of was the driver at night on a darkened road using his high beams. Perfectly normal but when you saw the loom of the light of an oncoming car in the opposite direction you switched back to low beams. Wrong! They leave them on to blind you. That still pisses me off. And depending on what kind of a day I had I might put my high beams on in retaliation but even that doesn’t seem to work. Sometimes it does but at other times? Frustrating to me. The third is a bit more subjective. It’s the 4 way stop sign. Determining who gets to the red sign first is a bedeviling experience almost daily. The problem here is that most people do not come to a full stop as the rules of the road state. They roll (I’ve been guilty) and when I come to a stop even though they came late to the party they’re still moving and that qualifies as a stop in their mind and so they just keep on cruising. Etiquette! It’s simple enough can’t we all just get along? Oh and a big PS: Tailgating. What is it with tailgaters? My driver training told me that I should be at least a car length every 10 mph behind the guy in front of me. So 50 miles an hour translates into 5 car lengths. Not up my ass or in my trunk! Same holds true for those maniacs that cut you off exiting to a ramp or around you because you’re not moving fast enough. No wonder I drive in the right lane so often I hate the pressure that someone is in a hurry to go no place. Drive safe my friends and remember you’re not the only one on the road.
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