> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:35:24 -0500, Boston Blackie wrote:

>> On 2008-06-25 01:19:36 -0500, Doug Smith W9WI said:

>

>>> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:30:35 +0000, Richard Thomas wrote:

>

>>>> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:39:09 -0500, Doug Smith W9WI
>>>> wrote:

>

>>>>> Regarding 2008, I'm noticing a significant (and frustrating) increase in
>>>>> the number of motorists who ignore oncoming traffic when pulling out from
>>>>> driveways/parking lots/side streets.  They seem to feel they're *entitled*
>>>>> to not be delayed, and if they have to delay someone else (or run them off
>>>>> the road, sometimes literally) to continue on their way, well, that's just
>>>>> going to happen.

>

>>>> Two out of three of these people will turn off a couple of hundred
>>>> yards down the road too (dawdling all the way in between of course).

>

>>> And two out of three of those will turn *left*.  90%%
>>> without signalling.

>

>> if you was growed up here you'd a knowed where i wuz gonna turn,
>> dadblamed yankee!

>
> (grin)
>
> Though that goes both ways...  (i.e., go up North & you'd darned well
> better make like the Yankees...)
>
> (clearly remembering about this time last summer...  
>
> Location: east side of Madison, Wis.
>
> On the bike, stopped at a red light.  Car stopped on the other side,
> facing me.  No turn indicators.  I plan to ride straight ahead & figure so
> does he.  But something isn't right.
>
> Light goes green.  Start to ride into the intersection - but my spidey
> sense tells me to go REAL SLOW.
>
> Sure enough: car turns left across my path.  If I'd gone at normal
> speed I'd have ended up on his hood.
>
> What triggered the "spidey sense": new car, but no front tag.  Yankee
> states issue front tags - so this guy probably wasn't from up North.
>
> Sure enough: South Carolina.)- Hide quoted text -