My Motorist Exchange...

[Vireo]

12 years in the US Marine Corps keeps me saying Sir and Ma'am 12 years later

So yesterday I rolled up to a stop sign and make my stop and go simultaneously with the car to my left. All of a sudden, as she is almost midway in the intersection she turns right -- right in front of me no turn signal by the way. Older lady in her mid 60's totally in shock as I yelled "Whoa!" and she looks over her right shoulder to see me almost in her passenger seat.

I motion for her to go ahead and make her right as we are both now in the middle of the intersection. She waves me to go but her CAR is blocking my path. So I motion again for her to go.

So what does the heavy-set jerk motorist in the SUV behind me yell out the window? "THERE'S A BIKE LANE ON THIRD!" (A street that runs parallel to where I am on the coast) I am two short blocks from a dedicated bike path (with barrier) from where I am if I continue in the direction I am heading.

What jerk motorist doesn't get is how the lady in the car was totally at fault totally absent minded and had it not been for my skill level I would have T-Boned her. She had no turn signal and she was almost halfway in the intersection before she had a "oh sh!t I should be turning right" moment.

Yeah he sped off before I was able to explain to him in great detail how asinine his comment was.