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AIBU?

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To be so annoyed with other drivers 'waving' me on

329 replies

TheresaVGreen · 04/01/2017 08:49

I am quite happy to wait until a natural break in traffic to continue with my turning right manoeuvre thank you. I do not need you to come to a complete stop for me (which is dangerous and against the Highway Code), holding up everyone behind you, to then wave me on and get frustrated with me when I don't immediately take you up on your kind 'offer'.

I think I'm almost getting to the point where I am simply not going to move when I am waved on, and wait for the other driver to continue driving.

AIBU to be frustrated with drivers who take the rules into their own hands like this?

OP posts:
MumsTheWordYouKnow · 08/01/2017 22:15

Very odd. Don't see the problem.

MumsTheWordYouKnow · 08/01/2017 22:17

Letting people out is just normal polite behaviour. Have never witnessed someone just slamming their breaks on in the middle of fast moving traffic, that would be weird.

SantaPleaseBringMeEwanMcGregor · 08/01/2017 22:45

We have spots at two malls where incoming traffic comes to a T-intersection and has right of way, and other traffic must wait. (ie, traffic going south ends at an east-west road, and they have right of way to go east or west over the traffic already going east or west.) They always, always stop and wait for the stopped traffic to go. It just holds things up for everyone.

Though the mall could help at one if they'd replace the sign the incoming traffic faces. It reads "Incoming traffic has right of way," which sounds more like a warning than anything. Maybe just put up arrows pointing in either direction reading, "do not stop, proceed with caution" or something.

MumsTheWordYouKnow · 09/01/2017 21:27

Funnyfarmer spot on. It's not a sign that it's safe it's offering you an opportunity to try and get out after actually checking yourself if it's safe, as long as it doesn't hold up traffic. It's called having manners. The way people take things these days old school manners are just going to disappear altogether if people react like the OP inventing reasons to get offended.

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