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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Driving / February 2008

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Another Page from the MFFY Playbook

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Scott in SoCal - 29 Feb 2008 06:25 GMT
You're approaching an intersection with a light that is just turning
red. You want to turn right, so just sail right on through the (now
red) light and make your right turn. Oh, and be sure NOT to accelerate
after making the turn or make any other effort to keep out of the way
of the cross traffic who now has the green light. In fact, be sure to
change lanes to the left without signalling when the car in the
rightmost through lane who just crossed the intersection behind you
swerves left to avoid your arrogant Sloth a.s; in this way you can
maximize the impact you have on his throughput.
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Ad absurdum per aspera - 29 Feb 2008 20:55 GMT
Here's a good one from just yesterday evening:   Major city street in
an area of short blocks with traffic signals at each intersection.
Two through lanes and a curb lane each way with  left-turn lanes here
and there.

In the curb lane on my side are (counting backward from the
intersection) an empty and inert city bus and two marked police cars,
w/ the  light bars going.  The rear cop car has its trunk lid up.
Their occupants are standing on the sidewalk, talking with the bus
driver.

As I waited for my bus, people coming straight or making left turns
repeatedly selected the right lane and got to within maybe a car
length of  the rearmost squad car before realizing that the conga line
of  unoccupied and powered-down vehicles just ahead was not going
anywhere.

Cue the usual individual choices among stealth, aggression,
submissive pleading, and  passive-aggressive progressive insertion of
your left front  corner into the moving lane until someone lets you
in, as means of getting around it.

(One of them was the tank truck that pumps out the restaurant grease
traps.  We were all  hoping somebody would let him in -- soon!)

Not sure how many were true MFFYs and how many just aren't in the
habit of looking much further down the road than their own hood
ornament...

--Joe
 
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