I’m Not Going to Drive into Traffic for Your Convenience

So, grow the heck up

My boyfriend got his second vaccine shot yesterday. Today he was feeling some severe symptoms.

Since I care about his well-being, I decided to borrow his car to get us bagels. He wanted them from a specific place very close to us, 0.4 miles away, to be exact.

The short distance should have made the drive easy. And it would have been if not for the massive jerk in the SUV behind me at the light.

I should mention here that I don’t drive very often. I’ve lived in New York City for the past three years and don’t have a car. Even so, I’m a good driver, but I was extra cautious this short ride. The last thing I needed was to get into an accident.

Let me set the scene. I drive up to the red light, and nobody is behind me. My blinker to turn left is on. Across from me, there is a long line of cars. The light doesn’t have an arrow for turning, so I knew I’d have to wait.

Some guy pulled up behind me, almost kissing my back bumper. My left blinker has been on this entire time, so he knew I would try to turn left.

When the light goes green, I pull up as far as I can, and he proceeds to pull up close behind me. I’m assuming he also wants to turn, but I can’t see his headlights because he is so close behind me.

Cars on the other side of us start going forward. I’m waiting because I don’t have the right of way, and if I tried to turn, I would crash into oncoming traffic. Then the SUV behind me proceeds to start beeping like crazy.

And for what? I can’t go anywhere!

They knew that I was turning. It wasn’t my fault they pulled up so close to me they couldn’t go around me.

Then cars were starting going around them, which was fine. But the SUV behind me didn’t like that. So they started laying on the horn.

When it was safe to go, I floored it to turn left, and the SUV peeled away. It shook me up and was so unnecessary.

Why do people have such terrible road rage? All I wanted was to drive two minutes away for freaking bagels!

I hope that whoever that was steps in chewed gum today.