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Old 09-15-16 | 09:38 AM
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PatrickGSR94
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From: Memphis TN area

Bikes: 2011 Felt Z85 (road/commuter), 2006 Marin Pine Mountain (utility/commuter E-bike), 1995 KHS Alite 1000 (gravel grinder)

Fairly uneventful yesterday, except for the idiot woman SMIDGAF in a minivan.

I was in the left lane on a 5-lane arterial, moving into the center turn lane to turn left onto a side street. There was one car oncoming, a big gap, then a platoon of traffic coming from the light farther ahead. I was setting up to sneak left through the gap between the one car and the group of cars farther away. All would have gone without incident except...

On the right side of the arterial, aligned with the side street I was heading for, is a 3-lane drive coming out from the Sam's Club parking lot. A van suddenly appeared, and the woman driving pulled straight out without even stopping, going through that same gap I was about to take. At first it looked like she would go straight across to the side street, and I could turn left right in behind her. But then at the last second, as I'm starting to move across the oncoming lanes to make my left, she also cuts left, into the oncoming right-hand lane from where I'm facing. So I have to veer right slightly, in the oncoming lanes, with oncoming traffic getting closer. Then finally I complete the left turn just behind the van, in the now much smaller gap before the oncoming traffic.

All this time, the van's window is down, and the woman just waves at me with a big 'ol smile on her face. As I pass her window I screamed something like "WATCH OUT, A-HOLE!!", only not censored lol. Idiots sometimes, I swear.
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