u/DOPEBOYOFTHEYEAR

Please take a minute out of your day to tell baby Mimi how cute and perfect she is in every way!!

I am doing this for A. Community awareness so you all avoid having a dangerous accident and B. My personal freedom so I don’t end up in prison from beating the piss out of the next person who does this

I direct you to the image of the intersection that I posted. I apologize for the weak phone screenshot, but it’s the most effort im going to put in right now.

I am sure a lot of us are familiar with the intersection leaving the Harris teeter area onto Towncenter Blvd, with the 29 turn if you go left and the airport if you go right. It’s a poorly designed intersection and it can be a little iffy crossing it pretty much every time.

However, one of the things that I don’t excuse anyone on is something that happens every single time, and is CLEARLY MARKED.

The two lanes leaving the shopping center both allow for left turns. Not just the far left. The right lane allows for a right turn, a straight into kohls, and (with nice white paint to mark it with an arrow), a left turn as well. You can see it clearly visible on the image above.

Many people in the far left lane use it to immediately jump into the far right lane on Towncenter to do the right onto 29 south. Such a move is illegal on its own, but 99.9% of Charlottesville flagrantly violates this at pretty much every intersection so I won’t bother. What I will bother with is this: if you are in the far left lane, and another car is in the right lane, and you are both doing legal left turns, and you jump into their lane, not only are you going to cause an accident, but it’s going to be your fault.

Understanding this does not require a doctorate degree. It requires you taking half a second to look at the markings on the road, and half a second to think. I’m not even going to say critically think, because a four year old could process this.

If you do this, and you end up avoiding the wreck, I would certainly also recommend against flipping out and acting like a stupid fuck when you get beeped at. Take your loss with dignity and do better next time.

Love yall.