If You Drive Like This You STINK

From my perspective:
Driving to work this morning on a three-lane surface street, approaching a highway underpass. There is a traffic light before it, and another after it, and they go green in sequence to let traffic go from the first to the second light with fresh green lights for everybody. Except that sometimes people get stuck in-between. I was coming up to the first light in the #2 lane and a big box truck was in the #2 lane under the highway. There was a car in the #3 lane that was s.l.o.w. I passed them while crossing through the first intersection and went in front of them, into the #3 lane, under the highway. As I came out from under the highway, a woman coming from the right in a Tahoe BARELY stopped short of the #3 lane she was about to turn right into. I saw her coming and was ready to cut back into the #2 lane (in front of the box truck) with my right foot over the brake pedal, the clutch disengaged, and ready to downshift to accelerate and get the heck out of Dodge. As I passed in front of her truck, she honked at me. I gave her a salute through the rear window.

From her perspective:
She is coming up to the light at an intersection on a two-lane frontage road next to a highway, in the #2 lane. She is preparing to turn right on a red light. Look left, nobody in the #3 lane on the cross-street, good to go! Look right, nobody coming from the right (!) and awaaay we g-HOLY [deleted] THERE's A CAR COMING IN THE #3 LANE WHERE DID HE COME FROM!?!? ::jam on the brakes & honk::

People, on a one-way street, look in the direction traffic is coming from before you go to turn on to the street. Look the other way sure, but pedestrians will be slower than oncoming traffic and if someone is coming the wrong way down the street, that should be pretty obvious, also. Look LEFT if you are turning onto a one way street where the traffic is flowing from left to right. It prevents your insurance company having to buy me another car.

Okay? Thanks.