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I was driving home from my parent's place this afternoon and came across a number of incidents on the road. The first one occurred at in intersection. I was waiting at a red light behind a car and heard a loud honk. Seconds later, a Mustang that had been stopped in the other direction pulled into the intersection during the red light! I watched as a car coming from my left began making a left hand turn (and thus missing the Mustang). The car stayed one car length into the intersection until the light turned green. Fortunately for him, there weren't any other cars that crossed his path.
The second incident was at another intersection. I was waiting behind another car at a red light, when I heard someone leaning on the horn. Seconds later, I saw a minivan (coming from my left) grind to a halt in front of a pick up truck (on my right) that had started making a left hand turn. The two cars sat in the middle of the intersection with the drivers yelling and gesturing at each other while our light was green.
They were lucky they didn't hit each other, but the guy in front of me was impatient and waved the two drivers off. There was no altercation afterwards and traffic began to flow again.
Soon after, while I was driving south, I approached another intersection for which I had a green light. I watched as another minivan on my left made a left-hand turn onto my street in ahead of me through the red light! I was ready to lean on the horn, but there was a middle lane and he waited there until I passed.
A minute later, I had pulled up behind a column of cars at yet another intersection. I was several cars back so I didn't see what was going on, but I did noticed that we didn't move for the entire duration of the green light. I saw (yet another) minivan stopped at the head of the column in the middle lane (which I was in), but I couldn't see anything in the right lane, which was similarly stopped. Traffic resumed normally after the next cycle so I never found out what happened.
I was very happy to make it home alive. I don't think I'll go riding today. (How come the worst drivers come out on the best days?)
