Who knew?
The 43 year old woman driving this Jaguar was ticketed for “unsafe lane change” and “careless driving”. In view of how many cars she wrecked, I think that her driving was actually reckless, rather than careless. In addition to landing on these cars, she also caused a vehicle to veer into a utility pole, “totaling” that vehicle.
That lane change is sadly a daily occurrence in some places…Some with accidents, some not! Mine for one!
I had that happen to me a few days ago. Someone was in the far left lane and cut across two lanes to get on the exit. They are willing to chance their own death and the death of others to save a couple minutes getting on the right road? Crazy.
Gonna need a bigger tow truck, to borrow from jaws.
I saw it every day driving to work. I’m not saying some of the time or most of the time - I literally mean EVERY SINGLE DAY in Massachusetts.
Can’t believe how many drivers I see have to cross 2 or 3 lanes to make a turn or an exit. Gawd did you have no idea in 500 feet you need to make a right hand turn and you are in the left lane? Thinking the logic might be yeah I am 2 cars ahead of where I might have been, because the sheeple will let me in!
This week in Tonawanda NY I was making a right turn om a green light fron, Elmwwod Ave onto the right lane of Sheridan Drive, a 4 lane each way divided road. A woman from the oppiste direction on Elmwood was making a left turn on Sheridan crossing all the lanes,of Sheridan blowing her horn and shaking her fist at me.
I have to wonder about the thought process of people who cut across 3 lanes of traffic, in order to suddenly exit from a superhighway. Do they think that they will be forever lost, and will be unable to find their destination if they have to go to the next exit?
These drivers who jump lanes to get to an exit or make a left turn all feel they are entitled, they see themselves as important people with things to do, places to go and you (that’s the rest of us) should pamper their every need…
I was at Kroger’s in the self-checkout line a couple of days ago and all the checkouts kiosks were full and I was the next one to get the first free one. A woman walked up in front of me, butting in line. I told her that the line starts back here. She responded that she was in a hurry…
I told her that she had better get in line or she will never get checked out. She begrudgingly got in line about 3 customers back and then started complaining to the last person in line about how rude I was…
I heard him say, “Lady, that guy wasn’t rude, you were. Not only were you butting in line ahead of him, you were butting in line ahead of this lady (the customer just ahead of him) and you were butting in line ahead of me…”
I wonder if she also drives a Jaguar?
So very common. Cruise in the left lane until your exit.
As far as the shopping checkout. Before self service, some stores would open additional checkout lanes. Announcement “lane 4 is now open for next in line” who immediately go to that cashier? The very last person in line.
Or even worse, the person that was walking down that just started looking for the “fastest” lane that had not even been waiting, they get it 1st… 
Or you have been waiting for about 20 minutes behind 6 people and finally you are next and the person in front of you is about to pay, and THEN they open up 3 more lanes… 
Back in the days when I had to hold a part-time job in a department store in order to subsist on my meager teacher’s salary, I had the following situation:
There were about 6 people lined-up at my cash register. Suddenly, a woman arrived, and she shouted “I’m from Staten Island. Can I go to the head of the line?” (Staten Island is just across an interstate toll bridge from this NJ store)
My response was as follows:
“It’s not up to me; it’s up to the other people in line, madam.”
She was loudly told by all of the other customers to go to the back of the line.
Back when I would go to the commissary at a military base, they, like some banks, used a single line to get to the next available cashier.
I got a coupon from the commissary service because it had been a long time since I shopped there. Went there, they did not have what I wanted, so no purchase. Fortunate in that I had not noticed the short date on the coupon. But they to went to self service.
I don’t bother with the base commissary any more, they, like the base exchange (AAFES) have raised their price equal to or greater than private sector stores.
Or when they go to pay, just have dig around in the bottom of their purse to count out last 87 cents in pennies and nickels.
Yup!
Then, there is the person who decides to pay with a check, and decides to enter all of the info in his/her check register AND to slowly do the subtraction while everyone else cools his/her heels.
I am so glad that–slowly but surely–grocery stores are beginning to eliminate the acceptance of cash at the self check-outs. Whole Foods stopped accepting cash as their self check-outs about 1 year ago, and at my local ShopRite, out of 12 self check-outs, cash is accepted at only 3.
I get pushed off the road frequently by drivers who change lanes from the far right to the far left at intersections. And I don’t like to generalize drivers as such is childish and immature in most cases but I can’t help but realize that majority of the time I’m swiped off the road it is a woman being behind the wheels.
They would make a right turn at an intersection then drive all the way over to the far left lane as if they own the road. And in my experience, they always yell at me and make it seem I’m the bad driver.
The accident, whose destruction I pictured in the first post, was essentially like that. The female driving the Jag sedan came from a side road, and then turned onto extremely busy Route 22, where the prevailing speed is 55-60 mph. An entrance ramp for I-287 is about 1/4 ahead, on the left.
She clearly didn’t wait for a gap in traffic before she drove across 3 lanes, hitting a car that wound-up colliding with a utility pole. Her impact with that other car caused her Jag to overturn–onto 3 cars in a diner’s parking lot.
That stretch of Route 22 has an unusually-wide median, where there are a diner and some other businesses, and this set-up is the common cause of some close calls. There have been proposals for many years to eliminate the businesses situated on that median, but nothing has yet resulted from those plans.
