Yield is not an uncommon word nor is it a stranger to drivers. However, with many, if not most younger drivers, the word seems incomprehensible. I'm not sure if the word is foreign to them, but it has to be the most ignored word on the roads today.Around the local university there are several intersections with clearly visible yield signs posted. Apparently, drivers pulling into traffic seem to believe that's meant for other lanes of cars and not theirs.
Once a student blew a yield sign right in front of me and cut me off. She darted into a parking lot about a block away with me on her tail. I edged up to her driver's side window and asked if she knew what a yield sign meant. Her reply was something like, "Yes sir. It means I can go if I want to." I couldn't help but laugh.
I am not sure if driver's education courses still exist in schools or not. Perhaps they've been replaced by creative cardboard cutout classes or the money is spent funding high school daycare, but students in a hurry to make classes or caught up in a texting frenzy commonly ignore the lonely little yield sign.
It's the Rodney Dangerfield of traffic signs...no respect...!
22 comments:
I yield to your opinion, sir. ha,ha Actually, Don I've noticed the reverse. I'm usually driving behind someone as they come upon a yield sign and what do they do? STOP! Wha? Idiots.
That is very true here in DC as well.
I've noticed that we have many members of the diplomatic community who apparently only drive donkeys, goat carts and camels in their homeland.
Yield? Isn't that the same as the yellow traffic light...every man for himself?
Oh, you sound like my grandpa!!! It isn't just the kids who ignore traffic signs these days--everyone does! Try teaching your teen how to drive when NO ONE stops at stop signs anymore!! It is a nightmare. It isn't just yield signs that are ignored, it is scary when stop signs don't mean a thing to anyone--young or old! The cop next door to me blows through the stop sign at the end of our street!
I'll bet she was blond. She was wasn't she? Bwahahahahahahaha.
Have a terrific day and weekend. :)
My daughter T-boned another driver at 15 mph while in the driver's ed car. Oh, the shame!
I agree and I'll even throw in the Merge sign.
High school=daycare doesn't it???? They sure aren't teaching these kids anything anymore... but you've called it right again, Don... yield is meant for the OTHER driver... there's not such thing as "common courtesy" anymore... or common sense for that matter... and don't get me started on that fucking texting....
nonamedufus: Same thing here. I don't get it other than to say some people don't understand what it means.
David: Oh how I can understand the problem that must be. It's not that bad here, but it's enough to have to deal with.
In Central Ohio "Yield" is apparently understood to mean "Go" and "Merge" means enter the main lane of traffic without so much as a glance to see if the lane is clear - people here believe it's a birthright, or something.
Turn signals are optional equipment. Most people who do have turn signals believe the little lever is there to hold their bagel as they drive to work.
Buggys: In my state flashing yellow is similar to a yield sign-means caution. The solid yellow on a traffic signal means clear the intersection or prepare to stop. Either way, don't do it in the intersection.
Lin: Cops have a different set of rules. I think it's mostly young people with the most driving problems. Stats would probably bear that out.
Sandee: Had she been blond I probably would have told her the meaning of the word "yield" and then asked her out.
Me-Me King: That's funny. Good thing she was only doing 15.
jinxygrrl: You're right. The merge sign seems to cause a lot of confusion too.
Tattoo Jim: Hahahaha. Yeah, the fucking texting thing. I like to avoid getting into that too deeply too. Morons!
Carl Vine: The same here Carl. Except here bagels are replaced with doughnuts. Now, don't get me started on eating and driving!
Looks like the Give Way Signs here in Australia Don; no one knows how to use them or can't be bothered, one of the two.
Sort of makes you wonder how they got their licence in the first instance...
Andrew: I know. I can't figure out why people can't be courteous when driving. Especially here. People do carry guns!
They do the same thing here but my favorite is the idiots at the intersection preparing to turn left and their whole car is on the wrong side of the road as if they started their left turn 100 feet before the stop sign, then any poor schmuck trying to turn onto this road has to wait for the other idiot to move. but then again this is West Virginia, they still have a big red R & L on their shoes.
Sparky: Hell, people do the same here too. I guess there are morons everywhere. Too bad!
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