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OK, I have to confess that I pulled my most stupid, squidly stunt ever last night and I need some solid chastising.
I was out riding last night and having a nice, relaxed time. My tires are old and worn, so I was "cruising." Anyway, I was heading down a hill toward a fairly large intersection (2 lanes in 4 directions, each also has a left turn lane so 12 lanes total) that was reasonably busy for the time of day. Anyway, coming down the hill, I see the turning arrow go green and the car 1st in line not moving. As I get closer, I downshift a few times, beep the horn twice and still nothing. So, I slow down to low 1st gear...and (ashamed to admit it) simply go around the guy on his right aggressively enough to avoid any move he might make. In retrospect it was a total asshat move (not to mention reasonably dangerous). The non turning lanes beside me had a red light (so I figured he wasn't going to turn right into me). But, and here's the kicker. About a minute later, I see flashing lights behind me :shock: I quickly slowed and pulled off the road to let the EMT by. My immediate first thought was that I had checked shortly after my dumbass move and thought "well, lucky this time stupid, no police coming." So, I really REALLY, don't think that he approaching the intersection when I went through. But WTF is wrong with me? Anyway, I post this because I realized later that I applied my blanket assumption that the idiot was lost and simply refusing to go through the arrow.
Lesson learned: things are not necessarily as they seem. If something is odd, take time to think about the OTHER reasons. :roll:
I was out riding last night and having a nice, relaxed time. My tires are old and worn, so I was "cruising." Anyway, I was heading down a hill toward a fairly large intersection (2 lanes in 4 directions, each also has a left turn lane so 12 lanes total) that was reasonably busy for the time of day. Anyway, coming down the hill, I see the turning arrow go green and the car 1st in line not moving. As I get closer, I downshift a few times, beep the horn twice and still nothing. So, I slow down to low 1st gear...and (ashamed to admit it) simply go around the guy on his right aggressively enough to avoid any move he might make. In retrospect it was a total asshat move (not to mention reasonably dangerous). The non turning lanes beside me had a red light (so I figured he wasn't going to turn right into me). But, and here's the kicker. About a minute later, I see flashing lights behind me :shock: I quickly slowed and pulled off the road to let the EMT by. My immediate first thought was that I had checked shortly after my dumbass move and thought "well, lucky this time stupid, no police coming." So, I really REALLY, don't think that he approaching the intersection when I went through. But WTF is wrong with me? Anyway, I post this because I realized later that I applied my blanket assumption that the idiot was lost and simply refusing to go through the arrow.
Lesson learned: things are not necessarily as they seem. If something is odd, take time to think about the OTHER reasons. :roll: