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Left Turn-Lane Blockers

Last year I classified this subset of drivers I always seem to leave 5 seconds too late and let get ahead of me. [And two months ago I started this entry—which would explain some of the dates on others like it—with ambitious plans to include a representation of the typical left-turn blocking situation parodying the DMV manual, but got frustrated searching for source material. Then I had an even wilder idea of making a YouTube with a similar traffic intersection in Vice City, and how I'd really like to deal with the people who create it. Maybe use San Andreas instead and splice in footage of the guy pumping up in the gym, so the pummeling looks that much worse. I so need to get locked in a vault like Burgess Meredith.] Last night I realized it's not just from behind they can get me: I was trying to exit from a parking lot across three fairly sparse lanes when a row of cars, mostly minivans and women on cellphones, filled up the one furthest to the left. And blocking my clear path past it to make my turn at the light. For the life of me I can't conceive of why they would prefer that side over the others when it'd put them closer up front. Just lazy fucks who can't be bothered from their meaningless conversations or self-absorbed trains of thought to fill up the street more evenly, I guess. So thanks to them, my right turn became more of an "S" around this line so I could access the left-turn lane.

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