I will grant you that there may be midwestern cities where politeness does not reign, but in the one I'm describing but not naming, the reckless drivers are mostly drunk, & not just zooming around stone cold sober & driving recklessly for "the fun of it". Now, drunk drivers do get arrested, regardless of who had the statistical right-of-way. (But reckless driver in the accident I described did not appear drunk, to either the people hit nor the cop. Just reckless.)Re-hijacking the thread. What the HELL does that mean? (Having grown up in and lived in some midwestern cities, as opposed to all the other cities, left and right coast, that I've lived in where the likelihood of weird drivers would be greater.)
If you want to see some really bad coastal driving, come to Boston (like the song says). In a tank, for safety. Its common for very polite people (there are a few left here, me being one of them) to politely "face off" at opposite sides of an intersection, each signalling left. You think that would make for a completely safe set of turns. But no, generally there's someone driving down the right side of at least of these drivers, looking to score one of those nifty "right of way" hits on them. They do this driving-down whether there's actually a lane on the right or not.
