You are driving along on a pleasant Sunday afternoon when all of a sudden a person we shall call, Nosig, pulls over in front of you and proceeds to slow down abruptly to make a right hand turn. Now your harmonious day has been brought to a screeching halt, literally!! What goes through your head? I’ll share what my head was doing. My head was hotter than fish grease at a Friday night fish fry! My first thought was to lay on my horn, follow them around the corner and explicitly explain how to use signals. Since I tend to curse like Yosemite Sam, it would have been more comical than threatening. Anyway, what I actually did was slow down, let them turn and take some deep breaths and found my happy place once again.
This is really a case of people being inconsiderate. Maybe, Nosig miscalculated and didn’t want to miss the turn. I would even buy, Nosig was distracted and didn’t realize there was a car in the right hand lane. I’ll go as far to say, maybe they were a driver in training and just forgot to use their signals. Unfortunately, more than likely, it was a seasoned driver who just doesn’t use signals. Signals were put on vehicles for safety reasons; to alert other vehicles of your intentions, to make others aware of your car, and to avoid accidents. One reason I hear that people do not like to use signals: People will speed up and not let me in the lane. Well, that leads me back to how inconsiderate we have become as a society, which filters into how we drive. We talk a lot about defensive driving. Let’s change that to considerate driving.
Road Rage Justified?
USE YOUR SIGNALS! Be a Considerate Driver!!!!
The Sharp Doc 