I agree. I have only ever used my horn once, when I was in line to get out of a cark park and someone reversed out of their spot and into me. Even then I actually waited until they continued trying to back out before honking. But I see so many people honking because they are waiting for lights to change, because they…

I’m just gonna say that my office is situated at the corner of a very busy intersection with a light... I get to listen to cute little honk fights all day long when people wrong each other... we use the horn for soooo many wrong reasons... honking is the devil. It drives me crazy. I instantly go into Homicide Mode if…

And that’s the correct way to do it. I will sit idle and wait till the person in front of me makes it to the other side and clears at least a car length of space for me to fit in behind. I live in a VERY crowded little village with a ridiculous number of traffic lights on one Main St and this kind of shit happens…

THIS WHOLE STORY

You’ve never driven in a city, have you?

Happened to me not long ago. I was behind a gravel truck, so I had no way of anticipating the traffic flow beyond the intersection. The truck itself stopped halfway in the intersection, very suddenly, leaving me mortified in the middle. You can bet my tiny car was as close to the back of that truck as I could get…

Yess! The fewer cars in the intersection the better. I realize this is one of those things people will never agree on, but I am firmly team I’ll-only-go-when-I-can-clear-the-intersection. No reason to be so impatient.

Yes yes yes. I wish more people respected driving. I try to be very aware of my surroundings when driving, especially other drivers. I feel like some drivers treat driving as a competition, weaving their cars between other drivers just to be a car ahead of me when we get to the next red light

My mom was t-boned by a drunk driver and broke her neck. She was in a halo brace for like a month but fortunately survived with no physical after effects.

I never enter the intersection unless there’s already space to exit. It doesn’t take much effort to be a corteous driver.

Jesus. As someone who sustained a traumatic brain injury from a car wreck, and who will never be the same, I actually feel for both parties. This is hugely traumatic. And I think that it might actually be worse to have caused one. If anyone has any empathy at all, the notion that trying to get through an intersection…

Absolutely! We’re in our vehicles, safe from the weather, why the hell are you honking at me to race into the intersection? If I’m not sure I’ll make it, it’s even more doubtful you will.

Yeah, of course not. And some people do it intentionally so they don’t miss their light, which is terrible (in San Francisco, the buses do it on purpose and completely block the intersections, which is fun). But sometimes the traffic is moving steadily through an intersection and you have no idea that it will suddenly…

South Carolina traffic laughs in the face of your common sense.
Sadly, for those of us who live here.

Exactly. There’s almost always fault ascribed to the “hitter” whether or not they have right of way. Dig this: I once was told I was partially at fault in an accident when I had right of way, and I was hit. Because I was there and didn’t take evasive action when a drunk guy ran a stop sign 30 miles over the limit and…

I HATE it when people try to honk you into the intersection. I’m not going out there until it’s 100% certain I’m making that light.

What is the fucking deal with this shit? Opportunity? Power? What is it?

Australia knew he was guilty the second he fled to Rome. Too sick to fly home my butt, he was healthy enough to scarper when people first started talking.

Apparently, look who is the president. I just can’t.

He was born this way? As in a sociopath? Is that an accepted defense, nowadays?