I was at work the other day (roughly 0400, give or take) and was approaching a light that had just turned red. I put my turn signal on and pulled into the right lane. I came to a complete stop like you’re suppose to. Only to have the 20 something twatwaffle behind me almost rear-end me. She laid on her horn, started flipping me off. Screaming and yelling etc. Apparently she thought I was going to do the typical thing that so many people do in the state that I live in, which is to just cruise slowly through the stop light if its clear. So I sat there. I didn’t make my turn. I just waited until the light turned green. This pissed her of even more and she kept honking and yelling. When the light turned green I made my turn and the crazy b**** pulls around beside me and stars screaming about how I HAVE to make the turn, I need to learn the laws, I’m an idiot, yadda yadda yadda. She then speeds away only to have to stop at the next stop light.
Sorry toots, there is NO LAW in the state I live in that says you MUST turn right on a red light. But there IS one saying come to full stop at a red light.
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Enjoy following the LAW lady š¤£š¦
Well, it’s ABSOLUTELY hilarious! Seriously, the sheer drama unfolding over a simple stop light… I’m picturing this entire scene unfolding in slow motion, complete with a soundtrack. I wonder if they had a permit for the impromptu performance? The audacity is something else entirely, I mean, you’re honking and flipping, really showing your feelings, maybe they just needed to blow off steam. It’s definitely a story worth sharing.
This is only one place in the universe where speed of sound is faster than speed of light… You hear honking faster than light that turns green.
You must live an exciting existence.
It’s Reddit.Ā You can write “bitch.”
And the next time youāre behind someone at a red light, knowing they can turn right but choose not to, thatās Karma biting you OP
Name checks out.
ESH Congrats?
Thereās no law in the US that says you are required to turn right, just that itās an option. Itās not just your state.
I like the story but to be honest I like the term twatwaffle so much more that it overshadows the story. Very nice.
I’ve done this at stop signs too. There’s been times i was stopped for a literal second longer than the person behind me though i should have stopped for. So i sat there and waved the other cars along letting them turn before me. (Regular thing in the midwest.)
School buses around here (NYS) always have a sign on the back saying āThis vehicle does not turn right on a red lightā. Does that stop cockwombles from laying on the horn behind them. Idiots.
I’ll bet this delightful person owns a Subaru.
I hate that. Just because you can doesn’t mean you have to.
I had a guy go ballistic on me because I wait literally a second and a half after the light turns green before I go. He started swerving at me into my lane yelling, āFuck you!ā This was a 20 something kid. I donāt think he expected me, a 50 something lady, to then speed up, cut him off and hard brake check him.
Kid, some of us were driving before your parents were even born, and log more miles in a year than you have in your lifetime.
When someone doesn’t turn right on a red (where it’s legal and when safe), I assume it’s an illegal trying to follow the laws in their own country and not raise suspicion about themselves while in the US.
Unfortunately this brings MORE suspicion because they didn’t turn right on red (when it’s safe). I saw it all the time in LA and now in MD.
OP, you seem like you get offended easily. If I was in your position, I’d have just come to my complete 3 second stop, then proceeded (when safe). I’d have found it funny if you’re in a red state and got pulled over for waiting for the green to turn right.
Thereās a light next to my house with a āRight turn on red after yieldā sign. For some reason, people treat that like it applies to every light in the area. Like once they saw it, they thought, āAh yes, the universal traffic rule.ā
And of course, itās a 40 mph road, but folks love turning right in front of you as if they have no concept of physics (they’re going 40mph and I’m going 3mph…I have shot at this!).
I laugh and blow kisses to road ragers…bcs I’m stupid. It does feel good though.
YOU are a shitty driver.
Go right ahead and lay on your horn behind her š
That was a weak move. You never know why the person behind you is in a hurry. They may have been rushing a sick child to the hospital. Don’t be a weak cunt whose tender feelings get so easily bruised just because you can be. Do your job as a driver of keeping traffic flowing.
Your both AH. You are not traffic enforcement.
I had someone up my ass yesterday driving home. They were laying on the horn because they wanted to get into the right turning lane. Except the way the road is built if the middle or left lane is full you aren’t getting to that lane. I also had someone in front of me that was preventing me from getting to that lane. She kept laying on the horn
When I can finally go I creep slowly up just slow enough to annoy her but not enough to get around me cause it’s not a big lane.
I was surprised I didn’t get honked at while I waited to turn but the minute I switched into the left lane she was flooring it past me. To get stopped at the next set of lights and then I had looked up again and saw her in the middle of both lanes trying to do what I don’t know but she almost caused an accident with 2 other cars in the lanes because at one point she made it 3 cars across. It was wild.
Nearby town has traffic cameras near a mall that sometimes take pics issues tickets to cars turning right on red. Iād rather wait for green than have to take it up with a judge.
You didnāt honk your ass off at her when she got to the red light? Even if she was going straight!!
Not every state has a stop on red before you turn law. Some states itās yield. She is right though about you impeding traffic which is against the law. I donāt get why every one has to be such assholes on the road. When someone honks/yells/flips me off on the road I just go about my day as normal I donāt have time for this āpetty revengeā. You wasted your own time and thereās no way I could feel good about myself or be in a good mood after that.
The world is full of “in the way people”, congrats on making the problem a little bit worse. š¤Ø
I mean, there’s a reason the phrase “law and custom” exists. Custom isn’t law, but you should still follow it in general or people will get mad and feel completely righteous about it.Ā
Sorry but i’m on the twatwaffle’s side. You got in her lane and she almost rear-ended you – so you cut her off, because you did not have the appropriate amount of space to get in her lane. You cut her off and came to a complete stop right in front of her, making her almost rear-end you. Then on top of that, you sat at through the red light because I’lL tUrN wHeN i WaNt To, YoU cAn’T mAkE mE.
Ah lucky. I had to work from 6 AM to 2 AM the following day and stopped an the right turn red light. In my state, you -must- stop at red lights and go on green lights. Waited 5 minutes on an empty intersection. A cop pulled his lights behind me and told me that its okay to go on red…. because “the camera is setup not to look at this lane”…. I went, didn’t get a ticket or warning.
-shrug- Guess it depends on the state, time of day, and cop.
Yeah, that was a weird thing you did. Why wouldnāt you go? You enjoy wasting everyoneās time just because? Sounds terrible tbh
Double down on “jerk”.
You’re wrong. You’re also an ass.
While you can turn right on red, unless signs say no, you do not have to!
I’ll go when it is safe to do so. Looks unsafe, I’d better wait.
Hahaha. I do the same and smile and take video if they start yelling. They scoot away so quicklyš
Yep. The second they beep at me, I become the most law abiding!
You obviously don’t live in Georgia. Here they barely slow down cruising through a right on red.
Everybody in some fabricated rush makes the rulebook for the road pfff
Absolutely no problem with you coming to a complete stop, but if you could have legally made a right turn after the complete stop and you didn’t, then you are a A-hole also.
LOLOL Honk at me and almost run into me when Iām stopping at a red light? Iāll sit there until weāre both dead šā ļø
I was at a light a couple weeks ago that said āno turn on red.ā The person behind me was flipping out in their car so badly that I briefly wondered if they were having a seizure. Iām not going to turn on a āno turn on redā just because you canāt read, sorry.
I had a similar experience with some asshole a few weeks ago. I was approaching an intersection. I was behind a car who was making a right turn as the traffic light was turning red. So after the car in front of me completely turns I decide to stop since I was already mostly stopped. I guess I missed up because the person behind me got really upset I didn’t proceed to go..take the red light and now I made them have to wait a few minutes. I should of just known better. Drivers in California have no patience for anything.
Twatwaffle is a common phrase in the UK. Not so much in the States. But in this case I’d say it’s an accurate description!
Where is the revenge? A 30 second stop? Very underwhelming:(
I would have waited even longer myself.
Yeah, that type of turn got my son-in-law a ticket.
Hah, twatwaffle.
Iām not going to get a ticket for not stopping first. Sorry, Iām not doing a California roll just because some idiot cunt behind me is impatient.
You want to get somewhere earlier? Leave earlier. Your lack of patience is not my problem, no matter HOW much you try to make it so.
You are a hero
This is the way. Cars horns are warning devices, therefor if someone honks at me there must be something dangerous around so I’m going to be EXTRA cautious!!