We have lived here for two years and we have learned to expect all kinds of weird stuff when we are driving. My strategy is to drive at a moderate pace so I can deal with the unexpected.
For example, I was driving down Deskin in Osceola Hills and saw a golf cart stopped in the right lane. I VERY slowly started going around it, and then the driver did a U-turn in the middle of the road.
A couple days ago, I was driving north on Morse and wanted to turn right on Moyer near the Sarasota Golf Facility. As I slowly made the turn, I saw that a driver going west on Moyer was over in my lane because he was trying to avoid a couple of cyclists. He immediately pulled back into his lane, coming very close to the cyclists, which prompted the female rider to yell, "You Jerk".
More than once, I was driving along Morse in the right lane with a car beside me in the left lane. We both stopped at the roundabout to let a car already in the roundabout go by. When it was clear and we both started to go, the person in the left lane jumped in front of me and made the first right. Since I had let him get slightly ahead of me, I had time to stop.
The first time this happened, I was very surprised. Now that it has happened three times, I look out for it.
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