Reckon you and karma have a little something in common...

[RecoveringKinkoid]

So I'm pulling out of the daycare (my kid goes to daycare once a week so she can play with her friends while I have a good solid workday) today and the traffic on this four lane road is really bad. It always is, and has a larger than normal ratio of assholes to normal people on it. Probably the area of town. So I pull out making a right turn. Then I shift lanes to the left because right up the road I will be wanting to make a left turn.

You know how you pull out into a road and there is always that one asshole that sees you down the street and deliberately speeds up to try and keep you from getting into the lane? There's plenty of room to pull out and speed up to merge neatly with traffic, but it makes the asshole's balls shrivel up some if someone dares get in front of him. So he has to speed way up to try and cut you off. And it never really works out for him because there is plenty of room to pull out.

So he settles for jamming his nose in your ass and then tries to swing around you as tight as possible, just to make sure you understand how much you inconvenienced him.

Except today, that didn't really work out so well for him, either, because there was a car in front of me slowing down to take the same left turn I was trying to make. And you know how when you're coming up to a left turn, and car in front of you is, too, the space between you shrinks a bit as you both slow down and que up for the turn? Well, that was the space Mr. Inconvenienced was trying to squeeze into, and it wasn't working out so well for him because he was really going too fast and had to jam on brakes. Then he has the audacity to...

wait for it....

Put on his turn signal that he wants to get in front of me.

Yes.

I wish there is a signal that I want him to eat me. I suppose there is, but I had my kid in the car. So I just kind of laughed and ignored him.

That's not the punch line. THIS is the punch line: The left lane, the lane he was comfortably in before any of this started, the lane he abandoned so that he could teach me a lesson, was the lane he needed to be in. He was making a left turn, too.

Which he ended up missing. He was desperate to get back into his lane because he was in dire peril of missing his turn. Which he did.

It was more important to Steven Fucking Hawkins over here to try and fuck with some woman and kid who were not bothering him than it was for him to get to where he's going.

I can only hope someone was in the car with him so that there would be laughing he could hear (I'm sure he couldn't hear mine, although I assure you mine was loud and enthusiastic). Or a dressing down down. Or something.

How's that karma taste, bitch?

[LillFilly]

The fail, it tastes so sweet!

[AtDIelement]

The was an ultimate pwn.

[blas]

That's almost another daily occurance for me. I can't wrap my head around people who drive with such.....entitlement or just pure vindictiveness (is that the right word?) towards other drivers.

Although my personal favorite drivers of this type are the ones who cannot be behind anyone, they must always be first, so they'll change lanes any time at an intersection where is there at least one person in their lane, then they get stuck because their exit is coming up or they have to turn soon.

[RecoveringKinkoid]

Yeah, I suspect this peckerhead was one of those.

[DeltaSierra]

I DETEST people like that!!! The only thing that angers me more than this are people who KNOW you want to get into their lane, and you are perfectly willing to let them pass you so you can merge BEHIND them, and they decide to become flaming douchewaffles and slow down to MATCH YOUR SPEED so you can't get behind them!! Bonus if there is NOBODY behind them whatsoever, and no matter how much you slow down, they match it so you can't merge....

[Kogarashi]

I hate those kind too, DeltaSierra.

Had one the other day who pulled that on me on a busy highway, actually. Newsflash to Idiot: merging requires cooperation. It's my job to match speed to you guys to merge as safely as possible, but it's your job to actually give me that opening to merge into. It's incredibly unsafe for me to come to a stop on the on-ramp because you won't let me into the gap in front of you when the twenty people behind you are stuffing their noses up your tailpipe.

[blas]

The first and only time I have tooted the horn on my car thus far:

Going home one day after work, actually I think it was a laundry day so it was a tad later in the morning, and I was trying to merge onto the freeway, it was raining, I just proceeded at normal speed.

A van, driven by an older man would NOT get over. There was no one else on the road. At all. No one. He must have been either asleep, not paying attention, or just one of those assholes who takes the "It's the person merging whose responsibility it is to find the gap" far too much to heart. I mean, granted I was alone on the ramp and it didn't affect anyone, you should NEVER have to slam on your brakes on an on ramp or to merge. That fuck would not move over, and because of how wet it was, I didn't want to risk flying onto the freeway to get in front of him.

So I have to slam the brakes, finally get in, he's tootling at about maybe 60.....something immature came over me, and I layed my hand on that horn and blasted it for I kid you not at least 30 seconds while I was behind them, then I passed him up, managing to at least keep my middle finger to myself instead of giving into temptation. Sure, the horn thing was a little much, but seriously. Seriously. Refusing to move over. Causing me to slam my brakes. Because you won't move over for a matter of seconds.