Fast Lane And Mergers With No Place To Go!

[LillFilly]

I was driving in the right lane of the 2-lane highway. An on-ramp was coming-up and I saw an SUV and Semi Truck allllmoooost to the merge point. There were a line of cars coming-up on my left and cars behind me. Rather than hit the brake and thus making it so the semi would have no chance of getting in, I hit my directional, sped-up and began pulling into the left lane...Well, I started to until this guy in a Red Chrysler Town & Country decided he couldn't have a 4-cylinder car go faster than him! He sped up so I couldn't move over, but at the same time the cars merging WERE NOT YIELDING! I had no choice and hit the brakes so hard I fishtailed on a dry road. Luckily the cars behind me were not too close, I didn't hit the SUV, and I didn't shit my pants. The guy in the Chrysler gave me a smarmy 'so there!' look as he passed-by, jerk.

[dragon_wings]

I'm glad your ok cause that could have turned out sooo much worse.
Jerk will get his karma someday (hopefully soon).

[PepperElf]

that's just messed up.

i consider it to be good manners to let the oncoming people merge (as you tried) - although they DO have to yield if there's no room. and good manners to allow the traffic over in order to let everyone merge etc.

gotten in the habit of that, especially with trucks cos i know they appreciate it

[blas]

People like that are why I rarely, if ever, take the freeway home anymore from work or my parents' place. People are so god damned rude and ignorant.

I lost count of how many times I had to ram the gas and try to keep up with the morons going 80 in the fast lane (leave for work a little earlier, morons), or slam my brakes until I hurt my tummy to let people merging in.

[Aria]

And right here is exactly why I hate the biggest highway in our town. Merging always feels like a fight for survival.

[blas]

What I hate most is when the weather isn't that great (rain usually isn't so bad but especially when there's snow or ice), taking that highway is a death wish because even if it's treated first or better than other roads, people just assume it's safe to go flying down it.

And without fail, there's always a ton of accidents.

[ShinyGreenApple]

I too always try to get in the left lane if I'm passing an on ramp. It's just the nice thing to do. On merging traffic not yielding, that happened to my dad once. He drives a semi and was in the right lane when some bint in a sedan merged without looking and went RIGHT into him. Thankfully no one was hurt, but the cops were not impressed when she tried to say it was his fault for "not getting out of the way".

[Bella_Vixen]

I hate driving on one of the bridges in Green Bay. It has TWO on ramps, and people using them never seem to remember that they have to yield to traffic, since they seem to think we have to yield to them.

Jerks.