Traffic Idiot

Saw the most infuriating thing on my way to work this morning.

The road I take to work has 2 lanes each way with a turn lane in the middle, effectively 5 lanes wide. The speed limit is 40mph on this road. It is a major road in the town. We are going along in the far right (outside) lane when it suddenly comes to a stop with no stop lights in sight and the inside lane is moving just fine. So when a gap opens up we switch lanes to keep going as do several other cars. We get to where the blockage is and some ass hat in a huge SUV has shoved his nose out into the road to force traffic to stop so that he could cross the road. He obviously started by going out just far enough to block the one lane, and he was completely blocking it as we went by. And he kept creeping forward until he was able to block the second lane also.

This idiot couldn't be bothered to wait for a proper lull in traffic so he created his own backing up early morning rush hour traffic for blocks and was damn lucky he wasn't plowed into by a car that couldn't see him as it was still dark out and he was in a dark vehicle. If he had been hit, he probably would have been killed as the person hitting him more than likely would have plowed right into his door.

I know it sucks to get across traffic on busy roads, but its something you have to plan for. I leave my apartment parking lot a certain direction simply because one road is easier to turn across than the other. And I regularly go out of my way to roads with stop lights just to make sure I can cross in a timely manner. This BS of shoving your nose into traffic is what gets people killed.