Stupid Lady....
So, I'm rolling up to a green light on the GS getting ready to turn right and a woman in a cage is approaching the same green lit intersection in the opposite direction signaling to turn left. The road we are turning onto has two lanes in both directions. As we both approach the intersection at the same time she looks right at me......
the law in Kansas says that by turnign right I have the right of way. Stupid lady says by turning left a cage she needs the right of way.
Law in Kansas says that when you make a left turn onto a four lane road, you should turn into the near lane (or left lane in this case). Stupid lady says that when making a left turn onto a four lane road she should turn into the FAR lane (my lane).
Laws of physics says that an object of larger mass moving at the same speed as an object of less mass will impact the smaller mass with more force. Stupid lady says, I don't care about the laws of physics because I really need in the right lane for some reason.
Luckily for me I anticipated stupid lady's stupidity and paused before turning so that she would go by without hitting me. So I pull into the right lane behind her, then pass her on the left because she was driving a little slow (also so I could shoot her a dirty look that she couldn't see anyway because I had my smoke visor on my helmet). I get down the road a few blocks and stupid lady is behind me in the left lane. Its a good thing stupid lady got in the far lane so quickly that she disregarded my right of way and safety, just so that she could get into the left lane (the lane she should have turned into in the first place).
Stupid lady.
Submitted with anger and frustration.
John L.
May as well have been a stupid man in a cage.
Got the right idea looking at her eyes though. You see where the eyes are focused (usually not on the bright headlight or body on the bike, but behind them) and act accordingly. I spend 90% of my time commuting and look at cager's faces all of the time.
Good instinct. Expect everyone to do as she did.
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I think those old people blinder sunglasses should be illegal because they cant see anything beside them on the road. It defeats the purpose of periphial vision and the test done by the DMV.
I was riding along today on a 4 lane road when up ahead right lane ends because of construction. I am already in the left lane riding along beside and old man in said blinder sunglasses. I am even with his door and slowly passing him (maybe 2-4mph difference) when all of a sudden I notice him cross the dotted white line and then keeps coming over into my lane. First instinct is to slow down and 2nd is me searching for the horn on the bike. I honk and wave fist and he waves back at me like he is sorry. 2nd instinct comes into my head that I wish I would have thought to kick his door, but then I think my luck he would jerk the car hard into my lane rather than back over where he belongs.
Outlaw those blinders!
I have a friend who says that Johnson County (the "posher" county in the Kansas City area, and one of the 10 richest counties per capita in the country) is home to more Centers of the Universe than anywhere else in the cosmos.
Don't feel bad just because you're on a bike. I've had people to that to me in my beat-the-heck-up 78 Trans Am and my bright white Jeep Cherokee. It's not the bike, it's that they shouldn't be allowed to drive.
Quote from: Black SnowmanI have a friend who says that Johnson County (the "posher" county in the Kansas City area, and one of the 10 richest counties per capita in the country) is home to more Centers of the Universe than anywhere else in the cosmos.
Don't feel bad just because you're on a bike. I've had people to that to me in my beat-the-heck-up 78 Trans Am and my bright white Jeep Cherokee. It's not the bike, it's that they shouldn't be allowed to drive.
I'm actually originally from Wyandotte county, the ghetto county next to Johnson county. I know from personal experience that what you're friend says is true. They also have a general distaste for people from Wyandotte county for some reason. My little incident took place in Riley county, however Manhattan is a college town so it could have been a Lady from JoCo in the car. I didn't check the tag.
John L. aka Ghetto Boy from the Dotte