Heh. Back in the really long ago, when I was a fresh-faced naval trainee in Tennessee, a bunch of us were given a lecture by a senior petty officer about dos and don’ts in the area. Some of it was pretty straightforward, like where the USO was in Memphis; other bits were warnings about what sections of Memphis were off-limits, and so on.
But the guy had a warning for us about some odd driving habits by the locals, as follows:
Say one is waiting to turn left onto a busy two-lane street. Here comes a line of cars, all with their right-turn blinkers on and, due to the narrowness of the road and opposing traffic, they’re all slowing down. The first guy in line turns right onto your street.
One might think that it’d be safe to pull out and turn left, since all those other cars are signaling a similar turn. One would be wrong. The first guy turns-and the rest cancel the turn signal and accelerate on by.
Apparently as a courtesy to the cars in the line, when the fellow in front is signaling, the rest would signal, too, to let following cars know what’s going on, so that speeding cars coming up from the rear would at least see a flashing light, useful in the fog, I guess. But there had been some pretty spectacular accidents when an out-of-towner, relatively new driver misapprehended what all those other cars were doing and stuck his car’s nose out for a turn. Hence, the warning.
Wonder if FSDS has to figure that?
