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No drivers will let me turn right. Is the human contract broken?

There's a right-hand turn I have to make from a busy A-road into a quiet D-road between three and forty-three times a day. I indicate, I stop and then I wait for oncoming traffic to let me through. If I'm waiting a few seconds only me and the few drivers behind are delayed. If I'm waiting longer the whole road snarls and lots — possibly hundreds — of people get older doing nothing. What makes the exercise particularly taxing is that all the drivers who don't let me through are not going to reach their destination any quicker. Half a mile further up the road there's a permanent traffic jam. They'll get stuck at the back of it for exactly the same amount of time