Ever deliberately stopped in the middle of the street to make a turn?

His ignore list is my happy place. LOL.... I don't remember what I did to get here either, but it's nice in here. I feel like I belong.

 

I think mine was from the vanilla hub grease. He said I degraded his thread. I consider it a badge of honor.

 

My bad, I misquoted you. I apologize. I should have said 300 yards at 55 mph, which makes it 11.157 seconds, or 400 yards at 65 mph, which makes it 12.5874 seconds. That is not my definition of "mighty far away" but it might be enough time to get a truck through an intersection and headed all the way left. But I'm not going to time it the next time I make a left turn.

What I don't apologize for is saying that that is probably still too close to pull out and intentionally block traffic, especially if we consider that it will be far less than 12 seconds for the approaching traffic to recognize that you are stopping in front of them and blocking their path by the time you get your truck into the position in your diagram.

And this begs the question, where exactly is this happening in the real world? What is the name of the street and the highway and what town is it in? (Please, not at the corner of Elm and Jabroni either. I want a real place in the actual physical world.)

And why is there no other solution, such as turning right? Or, with a 12 second headstart, why can't you get your truck out into a middle turn lane so that the traffic coming from the right won't hit you and you don't have to block the traffic coming from the left?

In other words, is this really an actual scenario that only happens once a year, or did you make up a hypothetical for entertainment purposes? Without any specific details of a real situation, arguing about this is retarded, since the whole point of your post (putting the most charitable construction on it anyway) seems to be to provide some reassurance to yourself that you did not do something wrong or bad by getting others to say they have done the same thing.

I'm not saying you are retarded, I'm saying that having this discussion is retarded, since I honestly can't recall a time when I was stuck for ten minutes trying to make a left hand turn because there were absolutely no gaps in traffic long enough to allow me to safely do so, or there was not some other alternate route available, such as either turning right or avoiding that intersection in the first place. If it's a mere hypothetical, it's a waste of time since arguing about, for example, whether some of the drivers here are more highly skilled than professional race car drivers would be far more entertaining.

And by the way, per contemporary standards of social acceptability as explained by my grandson, it would be much better if we didn't use the R word. I am using it here to compare and contrast with your use of the word. I apologize to any reader who is offended by my use of that word, and I accept in advance that this apology may be considered unacceptable to you.

 

Ditto.

 

@expedite_it I mean no disrespect here, but judging by some of the threads you've created and the responses to some comments, it seems to me you need to step away from the truck for a bit. Take a vacation, chill out and hit the reset button.

 

Sorry, yes, on occasion someone will roll out and I’ll be unable to complete that turn and I’ll just sit, blocking everything until i have room to make the swing. Truck blocks 4 lanes of traffic and stacks up the oncoming turn lane, the left oncoming turn lane, and two lanes im splitting to have room to turn.

 

For those that don't know, they foretold the coming of The Great....Crude Truckin..in a song from long ago. They changed the name in the song so as not to have to pay old TG CT.






Be safe making your turns!

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