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[quote=Anonymous]We encounter this often, there will be an exit with traffic backed up for miles, but the next lane over is a through lane which has zero traffic so cars travel fast.

And of course there will be people who zoom past the long line of traffic and then force a merge into the front of the long line of traffic and cut in front of other people.  To boot, they block through lane traffic while they are strong arming their merge!

I have always been riled up by this, and take a measure of Gandalf “You shall not pass” and follow closely behind the car in front of me and absolutely refuse to let scofflaws in. I’m a careful experienced driver with an old car, so I will keep a safe but unmergeable distance and will not back down from the line cutter who invariably has a much nicer and newer car.

The PROBLEM is my DD who is learning to drive shares the same fury at line cutters, and wants to act the same — keep close behind in traffic and not let people cut in. But she is not such a skilled driver that this is a smooth process — she is jerking the car back and forth trying to gauge the distance to not be merged off, and I worry her instincts for braking will not be fast enough if traffic stop and go pattern changes abruptly.

Perhaps I should have not been so vocal about my disdain for line cutters, as I wouldn’t have fostered the same ire in my offspring, but that ship has sailed.

Going forward, I tell her to keep a safe distance and just not get worked up if people cut in. Generally she is not driving rush hour to work or anything so a small delay is not impactful.  But she has an oversized passion for fairness and justice, so letting people cut off her and everyone behind her will be a bitter pill.

Any advice how to handle this? Play Enya while driving and burn incense? [/quote]

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