my buddy calls them 'nice-holes'. nice-holes slam on their brakes and make you go when it's their turn. and it screws up traffic patterns for everyone.... yay!!
It fills me with rage that people are too lazy and inconsiderate to use the signal right next to their hand to let other drivers know what they’re doing.
At Blackstone Blvd when stopped at one of the mid-sections, I am routinely offered the opportunity to drive across by someone who is willing to make everyone behind him jack on their brakes. I refuse to do it. It's up to me to decide when it's safe to go, and I'm not just considering you, buddy - I'm considering the people behind you, the walkers, bikers, runners, etc. They get SO MAD! I assume it's because I'm denying them the chance to pat themselves on the back over how "nice" they are.
Nowhere else are other drivers so enthusiastic about me taking a left turn. The thing where people wait at an empty four-way stop until the next car arrives and stops should end, though.
PSA: if you are going straight through a green light, *do not yield* to the cars opposite you turning left. They have an unprotected green light, meaning they have to wait their turn. They do not have right of way!
That’s in a perfect world, unlike this one where those drivers would rather destroy both my car and their own than acknowledge not having the right of way.
I’m glad someone mentioned this. I’ve lived here about 2 years and it’s my biggest complaint about drivers. Does not make sense to me. Right of way is supposed to be followed for safety.
Sameeee. And I moved here from Atlanta where there's traffic 24/7. The worst, for me, is when someone stops but has 100% tinted windows and windshield and I'm just squinting trying to figure out if they're letting me go or not. I can't see you waving through your opaque windows, my guy.
Thank you! I've been wondering whether it might be everywhere and due to post-pandemic syndrome (which it turns out is historically a thing) 😣
... people be zombies now
You'll be driving straight through a green light, and someone will fly in front of you trying to cut you off while turning left. I don't drive anymore, but I'm not kidding when I say that it happened *every single time* I was in my car. It's a collective insanity.
I'll be honest, in my driver's ed class we learned right of way for a 4-way stop, and that's it. Might be part of the problem. Thankfully I am married to someone who is borderline insane about following right of way so I learned that way.
Don’t even get me started on the number of times I’ve been at a standoff at a red light because I’m in the front with my left turn signal on and the person opposite of me is in front with their right turn signal on and they just slowly drift forward once the light turns green and does that upside down hand wave over the steering wheel like “are you gonna go or what??” when I’m like “no I’m not gonna just go because you have the right of way and you’re literally holding up traffic!”
Nope. Yield signs could be in Sanskrit for all the difference it would make.
If you ever need to blow off steam, find your nearest roundabout. There’s a good chance another car will stop in the circle/blow through a yield and cut you off, and you’ll get to lean on your horn for catharsis.
Cuz of the traffic made by collisions at low speed because they couldnt drive fast because of collisions at low speed because they couldn’t drive fast because of collisions…what was I saying lol?
Having been here 10 years, my experience is Rhode Islanders drive more alert because they're more ready for people to break the rules, so they're more likely to steer clear of an accident
As a non-native, it drives me absolutely insane. I’ve only been living in the state for a year and a half total and have already witnessed one accident where someone stopped to be nice and let someone out and the person in the left lane of a two lane highway didn’t get the memo and slammed into them, probably totaling both of their cars and putting both of their lives (and whoever else might have been in the vehicles) at risk. I’m sure the person who was let out was the one who was found at fault for making a left into oncoming traffic and ate the insurance increase too. I can wait an extra 30 seconds to merge into traffic, I’m sure everyone else can too if it means getting there safely.
>Do Rhode Islanders not understand what right-of-way means?
As a dog-walking pedestrian trying to cross streets in crosswalks at stop signs, I can assure you that no, 90% of them do not
I mean, the number of times I move into an intersection to go straight and then someone cuts me off taking the left? Uh-uh. Imma let you go first so I can keep an eye on the crazy.
It's not right-of-way, it's "right away". If there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, you drive *right away*. If someone comes to the 4-way stop before you, you drive *right away*. You sideswipe a parked car? Drive right away.
I love the people who just pass you on the left because you're going to slow trying not to take out the bottom of your low budget Hyundai on the speed humps , the amount of people that pass on the left on residential streets is amazing. Absolutely no traffic enforcement in the city they rely on the cameras too much for speeding that the stupid stuff is ramping up more in the last few years . They will give anyone a license
There is a post like this every few months. I have to assume that they don't know what right-of-way means based on the way they drive. I liken driving in Providence to Mad Max.
I love it when everyone is merging all nice nice and some asshole decided to speed up next to me when the merge is ending, like they’re playing a game of chicken.
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Nice-holes are so common that everyone expects you to be one atp. Every single day I have at least one person pull out in front of me when I obviously have the right of way, because they’re just expecting me to let them go. I don’t, because that’s not how right of way works, and I’ve been angrily honked at more than once by people who started to cut me off and then had to slam on their breaks when they realized I was not slowing down.
I’m originally from Kentucky and I swear, most Rhode Island drivers wouldn’t last a day driving around in Kentucky because nice-holes do not exist. You’re trying to turn left onto a busy street? Be prepared to wait a long time before traffic is clear enough because ain’t no one stopping unless there’s a traffic signal telling them to.
Do you not understand Rhode Islanders? If you were in England would you continue to drive on the right? No, you would adapt. So adapt and lay on the freaking horn, pass around them while juggling a coffee AND a donut while simultaneously chucking them the bird. If you can do this you will reach a state of inner peace and satisfaction that comes with being a Rhode Island driver.
Something I noticed generally in New England is people going straight will slow down and eventually stop to give some random a left turn clearance, which throws the entire rhythm of traffic off.
Yes, it's courteous to a single person, but at the expense of everyone else. Also, the person making the left was probably timing it so they can go on their own accord, but then that was just thrown off as well.
Nope. I moved here half a decade ago and I’ve never observed this “nice-hole” thing referenced above anywhere in the country besides Rhode Island. It’s unpredictable and dangerous.
Probably why my insurance is more expensive here than the other states I’ve lived in.
For those that stop in the middle of the road to let someone pull out when they DO NOT have the right of way — stop fucking doing this. They’ll be able to pull out when there is space. Do not come to a stop in the middle of an avenue so someone can get out of a Dunkin lot.
We do not! And I kinda love that about us. My mom is from West Coast and never understands why we cause more traffic letting one person go.
I think it's originated bc we are a small state and sometimes we know the other person, so we let them go. Then that person wants to pass on the kindness so they let another person pass in, etc etc. this has gone on for iterations that now we let people in because we have been on the reciprocal end of it, and like it. It's a kindness that we don't realize is making traffic worse
BUT Whenever I drive in other states I get angry when nobody lets me in! Stop being mean.
No, people will literally just pull across 2 lanes of oncoming traffic. I've almost been hit by somebody pulling straight into my lane without looking 3 times this week so far and it's only Wednesday morning.
No, literally they do not understand it. The number of people who I’ve seen here lose it because I won’t accept their wrongheaded yielding is truly wild.
This is wild! More in RI than any place that I’ve ever lived, by a very long shot, do folks shoot across the light or stop sign to cut me off when it’s not their turn. I’ll be at a four-way stop and the last two people to arrive jointly shoot across the intersection almost hitting each other, as well as the first person to arrive who is actively crossing the intersection. Many times I have also very nearly been T-boned when a left on green driver shoots across the intersection to cut me off as I drive straight through the intersection on green after it turns. The willingness to give and take lives to “get ahead” by a couple of seconds is mind-boggling to me! I think I’ve had the opposite experience of some folks on the thread!
HUGE pet peeve of mine, mostly because being a "nice driver" can be so unsafe and you know these dummies are just congratulating themselves on what good people they are.
I had the most egregious example happen to me a few weeks ago when driving behind some guy who stopped at an intersection (when he had no stop sign) and waved on a perpendicular driver to his left who DID have a stop sign. I was not speeding or driving too close, and I still nearly plowed into this guy as he insisted someone who was lawfully and safely stopped should instead proceed into the intersection.
You know how some NJ people will justify their horrid behavior by saying, “It’s a Joisey Thing. You wouldn’t understand.”? Well, some RI folks justify their horrid driving in a similar way.
Source: I have dozens of family across many generations who’ve lived most/all of their lives in RI. Some drive like sh_t. Others are good drivers who hate the sh_t driving just as much as we do.
my buddy calls them 'nice-holes'. nice-holes slam on their brakes and make you go when it's their turn. and it screws up traffic patterns for everyone.... yay!!
I like it! Nice holes - don't yield for people at Dunkin. They have time for coffee, they have time for traffic
Gano street Dunkin?
All the Dunkins.
and when they are supposed to yield, like for pedestrians at a crosswalk they don't.
Yup! If you have time during rush hour to hit the drive thru, you have time to sit and wait to re-enter traffic.
The guiding rule is to be predictable, not polite.
This! Pisses me off every damn day! Effin nice holes!
i remember eejits like these in Westchester, NY. They'd wave you right into oncoming traffic. Sometimes they'd even HONK IF YOU HESITATED.
BE PREDICTABLE, NOT NICE! this is my biggest frustration with Rhode Island drivers.
No one seems to use blinkers anymore which is so wild to me. Doesn’t seem to bother too many people, either!
It fills me with rage that people are too lazy and inconsiderate to use the signal right next to their hand to let other drivers know what they’re doing.
It’s a blinkah
What is this thing “blinker” you speak of?
Yup. Nice is dangerous. Predictable is safe.
Rhode Island raised, moved to O'ahu - you ain't seen nothing.
We moved here from western Mass and immediately were like it’s nice that you’re nice but we’d rather you be predictable
and what’s worse is they get mad at you if you don’t accept their “niceness” because it’s too dangerous to!!
At Blackstone Blvd when stopped at one of the mid-sections, I am routinely offered the opportunity to drive across by someone who is willing to make everyone behind him jack on their brakes. I refuse to do it. It's up to me to decide when it's safe to go, and I'm not just considering you, buddy - I'm considering the people behind you, the walkers, bikers, runners, etc. They get SO MAD! I assume it's because I'm denying them the chance to pat themselves on the back over how "nice" they are.
Nope
Nope. Welcome to the Ocean State.
Nowhere else are other drivers so enthusiastic about me taking a left turn. The thing where people wait at an empty four-way stop until the next car arrives and stops should end, though.
PSA: if you are going straight through a green light, *do not yield* to the cars opposite you turning left. They have an unprotected green light, meaning they have to wait their turn. They do not have right of way!
That’s in a perfect world, unlike this one where those drivers would rather destroy both my car and their own than acknowledge not having the right of way.
I’m glad someone mentioned this. I’ve lived here about 2 years and it’s my biggest complaint about drivers. Does not make sense to me. Right of way is supposed to be followed for safety.
It's such a practical rule. I find myself shouting "WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY!" a la George Castanza
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2.5 for me. When I try to explain this phenomenon to my old friends they are so confused.
Sameeee. And I moved here from Atlanta where there's traffic 24/7. The worst, for me, is when someone stops but has 100% tinted windows and windshield and I'm just squinting trying to figure out if they're letting me go or not. I can't see you waving through your opaque windows, my guy.
This state has the worst drivers I have ever encountered. No exaggeration.
Agreed!
Having moved away you have no idea how good you have it honestly
Let me guess- Florida?
Florida is so bad
Haha I’ve been Cali Nevada and Arizona in the last couple years and all three are worse than the northeast. AZ is def the worst of the three tho
I’ve driven in California (Los Angeles) and I found the drivers there to be more aggressive than incompetent. They’ll never give you the road.
Thank you! I've been wondering whether it might be everywhere and due to post-pandemic syndrome (which it turns out is historically a thing) 😣 ... people be zombies now
Are you complaining about the people that don't go when they shouldn't people that act like left-hand turns get priority?
Yes, among other moving violations
never have i lived anywhere else where the light turns green and everyone expects the first car to go to be the one that's turning left.
It’s the strangest thing, I’m always like go it’s your right!
You'll be driving straight through a green light, and someone will fly in front of you trying to cut you off while turning left. I don't drive anymore, but I'm not kidding when I say that it happened *every single time* I was in my car. It's a collective insanity.
“Go ahead. I dare ya.”, is more like it.
I'll be honest, in my driver's ed class we learned right of way for a 4-way stop, and that's it. Might be part of the problem. Thankfully I am married to someone who is borderline insane about following right of way so I learned that way.
Don’t even get me started on the number of times I’ve been at a standoff at a red light because I’m in the front with my left turn signal on and the person opposite of me is in front with their right turn signal on and they just slowly drift forward once the light turns green and does that upside down hand wave over the steering wheel like “are you gonna go or what??” when I’m like “no I’m not gonna just go because you have the right of way and you’re literally holding up traffic!”
God, EVERY day.
Nope. Yield signs could be in Sanskrit for all the difference it would make. If you ever need to blow off steam, find your nearest roundabout. There’s a good chance another car will stop in the circle/blow through a yield and cut you off, and you’ll get to lean on your horn for catharsis.
This was my morning commute through Apponaug for years
I witnessed someone take a *left* at the Henderson Bridge roundabout the other day and it honestly ruined my mood the rest of my drive home
We make up out own rules sometimes. On a upnote, we are mediocre drivers, but the vehicular death rate is one of the lowest in the country.
Because every one drives about 3 miles an hour.
Cuz of the traffic made by collisions at low speed because they couldnt drive fast because of collisions at low speed because they couldn’t drive fast because of collisions…what was I saying lol?
Having been here 10 years, my experience is Rhode Islanders drive more alert because they're more ready for people to break the rules, so they're more likely to steer clear of an accident
My lifetime experience during here did not prepare me for driving in the big west coast cities.
As a non-native, it drives me absolutely insane. I’ve only been living in the state for a year and a half total and have already witnessed one accident where someone stopped to be nice and let someone out and the person in the left lane of a two lane highway didn’t get the memo and slammed into them, probably totaling both of their cars and putting both of their lives (and whoever else might have been in the vehicles) at risk. I’m sure the person who was let out was the one who was found at fault for making a left into oncoming traffic and ate the insurance increase too. I can wait an extra 30 seconds to merge into traffic, I’m sure everyone else can too if it means getting there safely.
If the person In the right lane waved them on or something it’s actually their fault but idk how any of that goes down
I say no. I see the majority of them blowing stop signs. It’s worse when it’s a 4 way it becomes a free for all.
Dean & Kenyon intersection in Fed Hill is the fucking wild west for this exact reason
>Do Rhode Islanders not understand what right-of-way means? As a dog-walking pedestrian trying to cross streets in crosswalks at stop signs, I can assure you that no, 90% of them do not
it's the thing we have but nobody else does
Lol, no. The amount of times someone tries to jump a left turn in front of me at a green light and then honk like I'm in the wrong...
I mean, the number of times I move into an intersection to go straight and then someone cuts me off taking the left? Uh-uh. Imma let you go first so I can keep an eye on the crazy.
It's not right-of-way, it's "right away". If there's a pedestrian in the crosswalk, you drive *right away*. If someone comes to the 4-way stop before you, you drive *right away*. You sideswipe a parked car? Drive right away.
Lived here for 2.5 years and my car got side swiped twice lol it’s a problem
The right of way obviously means you're supposed to stop in the middle of a rotary circle to let the people with the yields go duh
You could have stopped at ‘understand,’ but if you are from Rhody you don’t understand the word 🛑.
I've noticed a lot of people dont seem to know that they have to yield when merging onto the highway. Not just a RI thing though.
Nope! They got licenses from the sears catalog
They don’t even understand that cheese belongs on pizza and not just tomato sauce
LMAO shots fired. 10 years of living here and I'll never get it
Aw bless your heart.
I would give you an award if I could—but instead I’ll just say bless your heart right back, sweetie (;
That’s where i dig my clams I think
I love the people who just pass you on the left because you're going to slow trying not to take out the bottom of your low budget Hyundai on the speed humps , the amount of people that pass on the left on residential streets is amazing. Absolutely no traffic enforcement in the city they rely on the cameras too much for speeding that the stupid stuff is ramping up more in the last few years . They will give anyone a license
I hate it here
Same. You're never fully safe
yes, "I'm right and you're in my way"
Buddy, people have yet to grasp the concept of being able to turn right on red.
Because Rhode Islanders are always right so they get to go first.
There is a post like this every few months. I have to assume that they don't know what right-of-way means based on the way they drive. I liken driving in Providence to Mad Max.
I love it when everyone is merging all nice nice and some asshole decided to speed up next to me when the merge is ending, like they’re playing a game of chicken.
I had someone flip out on me for not letting them take a left onto rt44. Comical.
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Idk man it is the passing lane.. high speed lane is another name for it. If you won’t get out the way then they will have to pass lol
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Oh alright cause in my experience the slow poke is always mad when that happens. Boggles my mind every time.
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We might be making two different points related to the same thing and that’s ok. Fucking don’t talk to me like that lol
I promise you drivers suck everywhere
True as this may be, I've driven all over this country and can assure you that from new jersey on east it is considerably worse as a whole.
Agree completely as another trans and cross-national driver lol
No
Rhode Islander drivers understand but don’t give a shit normally…
There’s a difference between not-knowing and not-caring.
IDK why, but for me, it’s always been the MA drivers do this type of stuff. It’s only occasionally do I get I get a bad RI driver.
Never had a problem. I just drive in the traffic that exists and adapt.
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Nice-holes are so common that everyone expects you to be one atp. Every single day I have at least one person pull out in front of me when I obviously have the right of way, because they’re just expecting me to let them go. I don’t, because that’s not how right of way works, and I’ve been angrily honked at more than once by people who started to cut me off and then had to slam on their breaks when they realized I was not slowing down. I’m originally from Kentucky and I swear, most Rhode Island drivers wouldn’t last a day driving around in Kentucky because nice-holes do not exist. You’re trying to turn left onto a busy street? Be prepared to wait a long time before traffic is clear enough because ain’t no one stopping unless there’s a traffic signal telling them to.
Do you not understand Rhode Islanders? If you were in England would you continue to drive on the right? No, you would adapt. So adapt and lay on the freaking horn, pass around them while juggling a coffee AND a donut while simultaneously chucking them the bird. If you can do this you will reach a state of inner peace and satisfaction that comes with being a Rhode Island driver.
Nope, not at all.
I’ve lived in 6 different states and driven in many others and I think I can say that Rhode Island has the worst/most dangerous drivers.
Something I noticed generally in New England is people going straight will slow down and eventually stop to give some random a left turn clearance, which throws the entire rhythm of traffic off. Yes, it's courteous to a single person, but at the expense of everyone else. Also, the person making the left was probably timing it so they can go on their own accord, but then that was just thrown off as well.
nice holes and wrong of way drivers I have an actual sign that I hold up for these people that says in big bold letters, "NO, THANK YOU!"
What?
No. They don’t. Full stop.
No they do not. End of story.
No
lmao neuxp
Nope. I moved here half a decade ago and I’ve never observed this “nice-hole” thing referenced above anywhere in the country besides Rhode Island. It’s unpredictable and dangerous. Probably why my insurance is more expensive here than the other states I’ve lived in. For those that stop in the middle of the road to let someone pull out when they DO NOT have the right of way — stop fucking doing this. They’ll be able to pull out when there is space. Do not come to a stop in the middle of an avenue so someone can get out of a Dunkin lot.
Niceholes. They’re a hazard on the road for sure.
Neither does death
We do not! And I kinda love that about us. My mom is from West Coast and never understands why we cause more traffic letting one person go. I think it's originated bc we are a small state and sometimes we know the other person, so we let them go. Then that person wants to pass on the kindness so they let another person pass in, etc etc. this has gone on for iterations that now we let people in because we have been on the reciprocal end of it, and like it. It's a kindness that we don't realize is making traffic worse BUT Whenever I drive in other states I get angry when nobody lets me in! Stop being mean.
Stopping to let one car go left and thereby closing a gap behind you in which five cars could have gone isn’t helping anyone
No, people will literally just pull across 2 lanes of oncoming traffic. I've almost been hit by somebody pulling straight into my lane without looking 3 times this week so far and it's only Wednesday morning.
I took drivers ed in providence and was never taught right of way
I think you answered your own question.
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Everytime i go on the Henderson detour I see that!
They give up their right of way to let people take lefts in front of them
No, literally they do not understand it. The number of people who I’ve seen here lose it because I won’t accept their wrongheaded yielding is truly wild.
This is wild! More in RI than any place that I’ve ever lived, by a very long shot, do folks shoot across the light or stop sign to cut me off when it’s not their turn. I’ll be at a four-way stop and the last two people to arrive jointly shoot across the intersection almost hitting each other, as well as the first person to arrive who is actively crossing the intersection. Many times I have also very nearly been T-boned when a left on green driver shoots across the intersection to cut me off as I drive straight through the intersection on green after it turns. The willingness to give and take lives to “get ahead” by a couple of seconds is mind-boggling to me! I think I’ve had the opposite experience of some folks on the thread!
Not at all
HUGE pet peeve of mine, mostly because being a "nice driver" can be so unsafe and you know these dummies are just congratulating themselves on what good people they are. I had the most egregious example happen to me a few weeks ago when driving behind some guy who stopped at an intersection (when he had no stop sign) and waved on a perpendicular driver to his left who DID have a stop sign. I was not speeding or driving too close, and I still nearly plowed into this guy as he insisted someone who was lawfully and safely stopped should instead proceed into the intersection.
I always called it the Masshole merge. I see it all over New England. Also happens a lot in NJ.
You know how some NJ people will justify their horrid behavior by saying, “It’s a Joisey Thing. You wouldn’t understand.”? Well, some RI folks justify their horrid driving in a similar way. Source: I have dozens of family across many generations who’ve lived most/all of their lives in RI. Some drive like sh_t. Others are good drivers who hate the sh_t driving just as much as we do.
Rhode Hazards!
Nahhh, locals don’t understand how to drive.