My crowning a-hole achievement:
Back in the day Stoney Trail and Crowchild was a set of lights with signaled left turns lane in either direction on Crowchild to turn left onto Stoney. The left turners would get the green first, then they would get a red light, and straight through Crowchild traffic would get to go.
Near the end of the life of this intersection before they started building the interchange it was getting really busy. You would often have to wait a few lights at many times of the day. The left turners started running the yellow light pretty bad, and then soon regularly you'd see left turners running the red, so the straight through traffic would be sitting there with a green light, but unable to go because there were people turning in front of them on a red light.
One day I was in the left lane, headed straight through. I know the left turn light is now yellow, but I see a guy coming the opposite direction in the left turn lane, not slowing down. I decided screw it, so as soon as my light turns green, I gun it to the middle of the intersection, then slam on my brakes. The red light runner has to slam on his brakes to not t-bone me, which he does. He starts honking and going into an absolute meltdown of rage. I just point up to my green light for a couple seconds, just long enough for traffic in the right lane to start flowing, and then continue along my way, this DB stuck in the intersection with a car stopped at the red light he blew, and a stream of cars going 90km/h in front of him. He was just absolutely losing it, I laughed all the way to my parent's house.
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