For instance, I grew up in Georgia but am now living in Ohio, and the colloquial rules of the road are a constant source of frustration for me. When a driver in front of me is making a left turn at a single lane intersection (with no left-turn arrow) and has to yield for oncoming traffic, I always wait for them to clear the intersection before passing through. Here, people seem to see a left-turning driver as some sort of obstacle and simply drive around them. Nobody considers it a big deal, if the person in front of you is turning left, you just swerve around them and go straight on.

I have several problems with this. One, it's dangerous. I've seen more mid-intersection collisions here than anywhere else I've lived. Swerving around the car in front of you means you can't see the traffic in the intersection until you are in the intersection, and oncoming traffic can't see you, either. Two, it completely ruins the flow of traffic. When two vehicles approaching from opposite directions are both making left turns, that should be an ideal left-turning situation. You can safely cross the flow of oncoming traffic because the car opposite you is doing the same thing, and both are blocking oncoming traffic for each other. This does not work when people act like vehicles turning left do not exist.

The general lack of even a modicum of patience only exacerbates poor traffic conditions. I've seen people drive up on the curb to get around a backed up line five or six cars deep, *when that line would not exist if people on both sides of traffic did not swerve around other cars to begin with.* And don't get me started on the pervasive "let's turn this two-lane road into twelve lanes because fuck traffic laws, that's why" driving philosophy that everybody but me seems to share. 

Anyway, that's one example of something that totally irks me, but is considered the norm here. I'm sure there are a lot of "Citizens of X drive differently than Citizens of Y and this annoys me" stories, but what are some other examples of behavior that is considered perfectly acceptable where you reside, but you personally find atrocious?
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For instance, I grew up in Georgia but am now living in Ohio, and the colloquial rules of the road are a constant source of frustration for me. When a driver in front of me is making a left turn at a single lane intersection (with no left-turn arrow) and has to yield for oncoming traffic, I always wait for them to clear the intersection before passing through. Here, people seem to see a left-turning driver as some sort of obstacle and simply drive around them. Nobody considers it a big deal, if the person in front of you is turning left, you just swerve around them and go straight on.

I have several problems with this. One, it's dangerous. I've seen more mid-intersection collisions here than anywhere else I've lived. Swerving around the car in front of you means you can't see the traffic in the intersection until you are in the intersection, and oncoming traffic can't see you, either. Two, it completely ruins the flow of traffic. When two vehicles approaching from opposite directions are both making left turns, that should be an ideal left-turning situation. You can safely cross the flow of oncoming traffic because the car opposite you is doing the same thing, and both are blocking oncoming traffic for each other. This does not work when people act like vehicles turning left do not exist.

The general lack of even a modicum of patience only exacerbates poor traffic conditions. I've seen people drive up on the curb to get around a backed up line five or six cars deep, *when that line would not exist if people on both sides of traffic did not swerve around other cars to begin with.* And don't get me started on the pervasive "let's turn this two-lane road into twelve lanes because fuck traffic laws, that's why" driving philosophy that everybody but me seems to share. 

Anyway, that's one example of something that totally irks me, but is considered the norm here. I'm sure there are a lot of "Citizens of X drive differently than Citizens of Y and this annoys me" stories, but what are some other examples of behavior that is considered perfectly acceptable where you reside, but you personally find atrocious?
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