People who come to a complete stop in merging lanes
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Anonymous
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I don't get angry when someone comes to a stop in a merge lane. Impatient, yes, but you never know if someone got something in their eye and couldn't see, or had a temporary car acceleration issue, or had a dog run in front of them that you didn't see, or if there was a jerk that charged forward unexpectedly to block that particular merge. Who knows? It's one snapshot of their driving. Let it go.
But if it's you in the merge lane stopping, you know whether this is a recurrent problem for you. If it is happening over and over, you should know that something about your driving performance is consistently putting yourself and others at risk -- coming to a stop at a place you are not expected to really does raise the risk of collisions behind you. The number one rule of driving is to be predictable and not disrupt the orderly progression of traffic. If it is happening to you on a regular basis, you shouldn't be sitting there at a stop on the merge thinking everyone else is just an asshole. You should be thinking that something is unsafe about your driving, and you should be making a plan to fix that. |
Anonymous
Zipper only works when the people in the traveling lane aren't acting like a$$holes. Which around here is a tall order. |
Anonymous
Nah I think I'll continue to annoy you here and on the road. Hope you're late to your all hands meeting! -Your friendly local twit |