A Decision of Trust

I was attempting a left-hand turn onto a busy thoroughfare without a traffic signal.

As traffic whizzes by at 50 miles per hour, I ask myself what I was thinking.  My saving grace: a center lane dividing the cross-traffic that might act as a temporary haven before I fully merge.  Time for a plan.  If I could make it to that center lane without being T-boned or cut off by drivers accessing that lane for their own purposes, I might have a chance of making it home in decent time.

I see an open opportunity from the left and pull quickly to the center lane.  Safe . . . for the moment.  Now I need to gauge the traffic coming behind and to my right while watching the traffic ahead in order to merge without being hit or rear ending someone else.  As I watch my mirrors, searching for a gap, a semi-truck flashes his headlights signaling that it is OK to pull in front of him.  I thought the choices I had made this far were challenging.  Now I am faced with another, a decision of trust . . . .