• dexa_scantron@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    I knew someone who didn’t use a blinker and this was their justification, and I’m like my guy you’re in Seattle now; people will drive dangerously in order to let you merge when they really shouldn’t!

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      2 days ago

      I’m glad I’m not crazy! Coming from Texas, the many times I’ve driven in and around Seattle, they are 100% like this. People slowing down to well under the speed limit to allow merging, and the almost 0% of speeding is so foreign to me. I feel like everyone there is dangerously polite while driving.

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        2 days ago

        I hate when someone stops in traffic to let me out of a parking lot or to let me turn left across their lane. You have right of way! Being polite isn’t worth driving dangerously!

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          2 days ago

          Same here. There’ve been times when I’m pleasantly surprised by a needed courtesy but all too often I feel guilty that you’ve disrupted everyone’s right of way to let me out when you shouldn’t have