I agree wholeheartedly....

That said, there is an intersection near my house where people always do this, enough so it has become expected. The intersection is lined up just a bit awkwardly so that people going straight across have to bend around the people across from them who are turning left. It is natural to have them go first, so just about everyone does. I hated it at first. Now I just roll with it.

The whole thing needs to be turned into a traffic circle.