Today, I was skating down a busy street and the light in front of me (about 50 feet) was red so I slowed down a bit. By the time I got closer (about 10 feet) to the light, it turned green (and I was still moving), so I kept my speed and distance because there was this huge Chevy Tahoe at the crosswalk. The driver turned on the left indicator, so I decided to go faster since I was on the right of the car. That is where it all went wrong. As I went faster, I got near the front right corner of the Tahoe and all of a sudden the driver turned right! I saw the huge SUV coming closer and I immediately leaned towards the other way and I crashed into some parked car. Luckily, it wasn't my board, and it was just my body but it hurt like hell. The idiot could've ran me over if I didn't lean away! As he turned down the street, he yelled a few words I can't type here and I yelled some other words that would get me bant if I typed them. I was so pissed off and everyone was looking at me like I was stupid or something. :mad:
That got me thinking. This isn't the first time I've almost gotten hit by an idiot like him. What's so hard about signaling? It's the easiest thing you can do in a car and yet so many people get it wrong! You just push the stalk in the direction your steering wheel goes, what's so hard about that?!