Which is a lot less exciting than the title I was going to post, which was, "I saw a freaking Aston Martin DB9 in Butner, NC," but hey they look at least a little similar. It's an understandable mistake, right?
Anyway, cautionary tale for everyone. There's an intersection I drive through all the time where I turn right from Duke University to Academy. Academy is one lane on the left side of the T intersection and on the right side it's two lanes, but the second lane is made up by the merge lane to turn right from Duke University. So when you turn right onto Academy, you go on this lovely little curved merge lane and then you can stay there because the lane is conserved. And there's no risk of hitting anyone who's already on Academy, basically, unless they decide they have to get over into the second lane (which they don't until some ways up the street). So it feels like a safe intersection to me, and I always take it at the full 35 or 40 since there's very little risk and it's a very slight curve. There's not even a yield sign because there doesn't need to be. But today, a car was stalled in the road just a little ways forward from where the merge lane becomes the second lane (so just a little ways forward from where I could even change into the left lane), and I had to change lanes really quickly or I would have run into the car. If there had been traffic I would have had to slam on the brakes and probably would have hit them anyway.
Also I had fun driving today. That's the thing about a stick shift, is that it makes even a crappy little Altima feel fun.
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