Connecting ramps at freeway intersections...

[Midnight_Angel]

Dear sir in that black Audi whom I happened to encounter yesterday:

Judging from your license plates, you are not from around this area. Thus, I can understand that the routing of traffic in the two consecutive freeway intersections you were in is not something you know by heart. (simply reading the signs might have helped, though).

Now, you chose the wrong lane and ended up on a ramp that goes on for approximately 3/4 mile, before splitting up for two destinations. None of which is where you wanted to go. So, what to do?

You wisely refrained from making a U-turn mid-ramp. Have a cookie.

However, stopping your car, switching into reverse gear and driving backwards on the freeway ramp is not exactly much better.

[Evandril]

I'd say that's worse! You see the front of a car coming for you, you're going to click you have to dodge faster than seeing the back end heading your way!

[bhskittykatt]

WTF?!?! That would scare the hell outta me, if I saw someone backing up towards me on an on-ramp. And I agree with Evandril...if I see the front-end of a car, I know I'm going to have to take evasive action. If I see the rear-end of a car, I'm going to assume they're going forward and not realize what they're really doing until it's too late. That's...that's just scary!

The other day, I saw someone who took a turn too sharply, and ended up in the oncoming traffic turn lanes, with a barrier so they couldn't simply move over. They at least had the sense to put on their flashers before backing up!

[blas]

A couple of weeks ago, some idiot at the last minute decided it was the wrong exit, and just feet from my mom's front bumper, went flying from the gap between the exit back onto the freeway.

Many years back, one of my boyfriends was on his way to my house, and an old lady took the wrong exit and was backing up. On the freeway.