A New Category of Sloth 3338

You're saying that you want to do someone else's driving FOR THEM. Who the HELL are you to tell anybody else that they are turning too slow? I just about got creamed by someone in a jeep this morning who was turning too fast. I was waiting at a red light to turn left, a jeep was coming from my left, wanting to turn right (headed the way I had just come from). Unfortunately, he was on ice and going way too fast for conditions. So when he turned his wheel to the right, the jeep only veered slightly to the right. . . toward my driver's door. I had no time to do anything as by the time I would have got my vehicle moving on the ice, the jeep would have slammed into me. I don't know how the jeep driver pulled it off, but he managed to reverse his turn (ON ICE!) in time to actually slide right on by me. He ended up crossing the intersection in front of my car, THEN turning right, down the opposing lane of traffic to my right, which was thankfully empty. I suppose you would have been furious if you had been stuck behind the jeep driver and he had slowed way down to take the corner safely?

At our home, we have to turn down a rather steep driveway, which is often icy. We have lamp posts near the end of it. If I don't enter the driveway very slowly, I will slide into a lamp post. (don't care about the lamp post, but I'd rather not dent the car) But people behind me often don't realize that. I've had many drivers peeed off at me (some even honk) for turning slowly into my driveway. But I deliberately slow WAY down for that turn, as I learned the hard way that it's easy to slide into the lamp posts, even if you THINK you are turning slow enough. So TO OTHER DRIVERS, it might appear that I'm turning too slow. But those other drivers aren't experienced at negotiating the rather tricky corner to enter my driveway safely.

Do NOT make the mistake of second-guessing another driver. If he-she is turning too slow for you, THAT IS YOUR PROBLEM. -Dave