Well yeah, it's a good point however you can usually tell by their speed and which way the driver is looking.
In addition to "maybe they are just cruising with their blinker on" what if the right turner encounters an obstacle during their turn (
pedestrian or another object such as cat dog or child's ball suddenly enters the path of their car or another car pulls out from curb/driveway or something falls from the sky or one of their wheels flies off or another mechanical malfunction) so they have to stop mid-turn and you (
having not waited till they completed their turn and you can make your turn without risking blocking the path of opposing traffic going straight) are now trapped directly in the path of oncoming traffic which includes a 16 year old texting as she is driving thus not paying attention who smashes into you causing your car to burst into flames and you die?
All because you weren't patient enough to wait another 2.4 seconds (
or less) to make sure the turning driver would be able to successfully make their turn and leave you a clear path to turn that has no possibility of you winding up blocking the intersection/risking your life and the lives of others because the turning car had to stop suddenly.
Many Professional drivers wait for a turning vehicle to complete a turn. This is not uncommon at all.
What pisses
me off
completely is when people block the right hand turn lane at a stop light when there are other open lanes available to them that they could have merged over into so as to not be sitting their stupid ass in the right hand turn lane preventing others from turning. Sometimes I'll just go ahead and make the right turn from the middle lane (
or the lane next to them) but thats pretty crazy so more often than I do that I'll pull up as close to the back of their car as I can get, roll my window down and blast a slowed down version ("pitch bent" or "screwed") version of
I have no idea why am not already dead.
I'd understand perfectly if someone were to shoot me for this...reaction to oblivious discourteous brain of a Beet having morons blocking the turn lane.
Its just a huge "pet peeve" of mine. It totally drives me crazy.