Turn Signals

They were invented for a reason. As the name suggests, they are meant to signal other drivers around you that you are turning either left, or right. BUT there are other good uses for turn signals. They work wonders on the freeway. Again, you turn on your signal to let other drivers around you know that you either want to move into the lane on the left or into the lane on the right. I am beginning to discover that people don't realize that turn signals can be used for this purpose. They are also the same people who don't realize the intial reason for turn signals. It's like they don't know they exist. Consider this scnenario: You are on the freeway, stuck in traffic. Let's say you're going 15mph, stop and go. If you are like me, you leave a decent gap between you and the car in front of you, as to not have to hit your brakes every 2 seconds (thus saving your brakes). Since you are leaving a decent sized gap, it is inevitable that there will be another car that insists on occupying that space. This occurs for a few reasons. First, it's an almost instinctive reaction, "Oh! An empty space! I must get in it!" Second, if there is a space it means that, "THAT lane MUST be moving faster, so I have to get over because I have to be one car length ahead!" This is fine and dandy and I've gotten used to this, people are ignorant and I accept that. WHAT I do not accept is NOT USING TURN SIGNALS. I do not accept the moronic drivers that just cut me off and make me slam on my brakes. See, I am a nice driver, if I see that someone has their turn signal on, and I can slow down or speed up to let them in my lane, I will. I mean, why not? I'm still going to get to where I need to go. What I don't understand is that if you use your turn signal, someone might be apt to let you into their lane. They will say, "hey, I know what they're doing. I think I can help them out." But if you do not use your turn signal, nobody knows what you want and they can't help you. Instead, you create havoc and in a lot incidents, accidents because you don't have common sense to flip that little lever on the left side of your steering wheel up or down.

*I may have offended some drivers. Especially the ones who think they are hot shit, drive hot cars and feel the need to show off. For that I do not apologize, because, well, it's annoying and pisses me off. And in the broader scheme of things, it's unsafe and I don't want to get caught up in something because of some idiot*

Okay, I'm done.