In high school, in Driver’s Ed, they taught us “defensive driving.” I remember one of my classmates making a joke, “But what about offensive<\/i> driving?” Or maybe that’s not a memory and just an obvious retort that should be made.<\/p>\n
In any case, tonight I witnessed firsthand a case of offensive driving.<\/p>\n
I needed to make a left, and there was a vehicle in front of me. It was a green light, and we sat there because there was traffic coming and we had to yield. I couldn’t see the traffic coming because of the vehicle in front of me. Then the light turned yellow, the vehicle in front of me moved, and the vehicle behind me — a Volkswagen SUV or some kind, as I would learn later — started honking its horn.<\/p>\n
But because the light had turned yellow and then red, I didn’t turn. For one thing, there wasn’t enough time for me to judge the oncoming traffic because of the vehicle that had been in front of me, and when I had assessed the situation I probably could have gone.<\/p>\n
This however, was not okay for the vehicles behind me. One whipped out from behind, went around my passenger side, and made the left on the red.<\/p>\n
But not the Volkswagen who had honked his horn.<\/p>\n
When the light turned green and I had a protected arrow, I made my turn.<\/p>\n
Imagine my surprise when, to my left (on the driver’s side) I saw the Volkswagen that was behind me passing me in the turn!<\/p>\n
Seriously. I got cut off in the turn.<\/p>\n
This put us onto a narrow, windy road, and the SUV quickly found itself behind other vehicles who were not moving as fast as he would have liked. Occasionally, he would pass a vehicle in a No Passing zone.<\/p>\n
At one point he put his hazard lights on and attempted to force a vehicle in front of him off the road.<\/p>\n
I have no idea where this person was going.<\/p>\n
I didn’t really care.<\/p>\n
He was going to hurt himself or someone else, though.<\/p>\n
Offensive driving. Don’t do it. It only makes you an asshole on the road.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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