Great commute this afternoon at 57F and overcast with winds from the NW @ 21mph gusting to 30mph.

Had an interesting situation happen this afternoon.

When I get to Rt 20, I have to eventually go left. On days where there's a lot of traffic, I turn right from Cottage Ave because there can be a lot of vehicles that turn left from 20 onto Cottage Ave, and it makes it pretty tricky trying to pull out. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie...12,148.44,,0,0

I pull right into an abandoned gas station just up the road on the right and wait for a decent gap and turn left from there. This is the gas station that is abandoned (not at the time this pic was taken though) where I was waiting: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ie...16.99,,0,-9.43.

There was a van that was approaching from my right on 20 that stopped in the middle of the road and I believe they though they could hold up traffic. The road has a large shoulder, so vehicles just started passing the van on the right. There were quite a bit of vehicles beeping their horns including the van. It was actually almost comical. I tried to motion the van to go but they kept waiting and giving me the "why haven't you gone yet?" look. When there were finally no vehicles around, I went with the van still waiting. I believe the van thought they were being nice to me holding up traffic. My thing is, I prefer to have as little vehicles approaching from behind because there's a blindish turn and later the shoulder gets narrow/littered, so I need to move left.