Well, I was just in one. Waiting at a light to turn right, there was a bicycle rider on my left and I couldn't see through him to see if there was any traffic coming.. don't want to pull out in front of someone, now, do I?
Arse behind me honks his horn. I pull forward a hair to try to see through a gap in the rider's arm. there's cars coming.
About five second after I pull forward, I get hit from behind! BAM! Not hard enough to jar us significantly, but hard enough to know we've been hit.
A gap opens, and I turn the corner and pull into the gas station.
The guy who hits me? He turns.. and nails it. Runs.
Thinking back, I should have not rounded the corner...he would have had no place to go.
The truck waiting to exit the gas station kept me from being able to pull out fast enough once I realized he was fleeing to to catch up get his license plate number. He was travelling down a 35 doing at least 50-60 to get away...
GRR.
the nerve of people.
No apparent damage to the Saturn I was driving.