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re: Letting People Over in Traffic
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:05 am to CoachDon
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:05 am to CoachDon
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Also, just because you put the nose of your car out between me and the car in front of me doesn't mean I'm letting you in
It's what I call a New Orleans merge. Very effective when some asswipe won't let me in when it's obvious to both of us that I need to merge yet you're being the obstinate dickhead who refuses to let me in. One dickhead move begets another.
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Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:06 am to CoachDon
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Also, just because you put the nose of your car out between me and the car in front of me doesn't mean I'm letting you in, so frick off.
This happened to me this morning, and I had the same thought
This post was edited on 10/20/15 at 8:06 am
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:14 am to achenator
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There's always the people who know the lane ends for at least a mile but drive all the way up to the end and then expect to be let in. Yeah, frick those people.
College and nicholson by AM mart. If you think you can go all the way down the right lane and expect me to let you in right before the train tracks, youve got another thing coming. Ive been sitting in that traffic and i will be bumper to bumper so no one can get a nose in. Id rather crash my car than let you in. And its a shitty car so frick you. You can wave and signal all you want, but you aint getting in bitch
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:20 am to CoachDon
Never understood people that demand a wave or gesture for letting someone in. Had a dude almost curse me out at a red light because he apparently 'let me in' earlier down the road and I didn't wave to him. frick off man. There's a lot of traffic on the road and people are in a hurry. I'm not taking my hands off the wheel and taking my eyes off the road to turn around and give you a peace sign.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:20 am to SuperSoakher
For anyone familiar with Houston, the 59 ramp onto 610 towards the Galleria is full of assholes who are too good to wait in line and drive in the shoulder on a turn to cut in right before the merge.
This is the where I can pinpoint the source of my being stubborn on letting people in.
This is the where I can pinpoint the source of my being stubborn on letting people in.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:21 am to CoachDon
If everyone would just know how to zipper in, there would be no problem.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:22 am to Hu_Flung_Pu
i think most people know. they are just dicks with the "not in front of me" attitude.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:23 am to MorbidTheClown
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i think most people know. they are just dicks with the "not in front of me" attitude
Bingo.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:23 am to CoachDon
Zipper method, learn it and keep moving.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:24 am to CoachDon
the worst is when people cut you off then wave like you let them over.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:25 am to CoachDon
most drivers think the "Yield" sign means I have a right to merge whenever I want, or GTFOOTW
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:26 am to achenator
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There's always the people who know the lane ends for at least a mile but drive all the way up to the end and then expect to be let in. Yeah, frick those people.
That is actually approved and encouraged by traffic engineers the world over. You're supposed to use empty roadway instead of changing lanes before you have to. It helps traffic move faster.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:27 am to X123F45
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I have a winch bumper, tire carrier, and sliders. If I put my nose put, I'm getting over.
Sorry baw.
Its funny you mention that because I was thinking of my Road Armor front bumper and how if I didn't want to let you in, you weren't getting in. No one wants to chance it with a 250lbs steel bumper lol.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:28 am to CoachDon
My windows are tinted just enough that people can't see my waves and it bothers me, but not enough to roll down the window to wave
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:28 am to shutterspeed
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The best thing to do is to drive as far down to the traffic obstruction as possible before then trying to merge with flowing traffic
Completely correct. There's no rule that says you have to merge before the merge point like a herd of sheep. That just slows down traffic.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:29 am to foshizzle
I fully understand that but as this thread shows, it makes most people think you're a dickhead.
It sucks either way.
It sucks either way.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:32 am to CoachDon
What people don't realize is that by being "nice" and letting one person in you're inadvertently being an a-hole to every single person behind you. I rarely let people in the lane while driving
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:34 am to foshizzle
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That is actually approved and encouraged by traffic engineers the world over. You're supposed to use empty roadway instead of changing lanes before you have to. It helps traffic move faster.
I have come to notice at my time at DOTD that engineers don't consider stupid people (most of the time)
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:35 am to GetCocky11
I always get off on College going westbound. That exit lane starts at the 10/12 split. Yet people use that lane to get ahead. Sometimes that lane will back up halfway to the split but when I finally get towards the end it clears up because everybody else got over.
Posted on 10/20/15 at 8:35 am to foshizzle
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traffic engineers
This term makes me laugh, in some parts of the world (like Atlanta).
I saw a roundabout (one lane, mind you, that is to say-- useless) with integrated pedestrian crossings on both sides of the main arteries (and pedestrian crossings somewhat retired from the ´gadget´ on either side of the inferior feeder arteries).
This post was edited on 10/20/15 at 8:37 am
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