On my way home from work I usually pass through Palo Alto. I take Lytton Ave and make a left onto Middlefield. It’s a pretty high traffic intersection so there are 2 lanes, 1 for left only, and 1 for left, right, or straight (aka bicuriously onward). Well I never see anyone make a left from the right lane… now I know why.

There were about 6 cars making the left from the left lane and zero in the right, so of course I zip over into the empty lane. As I’m whipping through the turn I think to myself, “wouldn’t it suck if this huge ass cherokee didn’t even both looking and tried to finish his turn in my lane…. OH SHIT!”

Guess what happened next. Luckily my breaks work great.

Now I know why people don’t use the right lane to make that left. It’s not because the don’t know they can, it’s because they know what will happen.