Why do we have so many traffic signs when it seems nobody reads them?

[skygazer]

:rant:

We have limited parking at our local post office. There's a one-way lane leading to the parking area. There are 2 lanes in this drive. The right lane ends at a white line with a large sign above stating, "PLEASE WAIT HERE FOR NEXT AVAILABLE SPACE." It has been that way as long as I've lived here.

The left lane allows traffic to drop mail in the curbside boxes and continue through the parking area to get back to the street.

Every single solitary time I've been there, stopped dutifully at the white line and waiting for my turn, some fucking moran has to pull up behind me and start blowing their horn, gesticulating, mouthing curses and flipping me the bird. :wtf:

Today it was a gentle-looking little old lady who turned into some kind of evil monster within 2 seconds of pulling up. She finally pulled into the left lane, tires squealing, and tore past me, narrowly missing a little girl in the crosswalk.

I swear, I'm going to get a big piece of white posterboard, and in big, black, block letters, I'll write READ THE SIGN, STUPID! Then I'll hold it out the window whenever someone starts behaving like an asshole. :nuke:

[Gormy Cuss]

1. What traffic signs?

:evilgrin:

No cure for it, I fear. Driving seems to turn on the self-centered switch with some people.

[Kutjara]

2. Why do you hate our FREEDOM...

...to act like assholes?

[InternalDialogue]

3. When I was a kid, we had these message paddle-boards.

My parents bought them for us when we were moving from place to place over a couple of years.

The boards had preprinted signs that you could flip to display on the paddle, and since it was the mid-'70s, they were things like "Right On!" and "Keep on Truckin'!"

But I really wish they'd come with every car nowadays, with messages like "It says NO TURN ON RED for a reason!" and "LEFT TURN ONLY -- Except for you, apparently."