I don’t know what it is like around the rest of the country but about 95% of drivers here in the greater Seattle area need to go back to driving school and learn how to merge into traffic. I swear to Christ that as soon as these idiots turn on their blinker they loose all common sense. There are a few different offenders in the merging game.
Slow Merger
These pricks somehow think it is safe to merge onto a road with a 60+ MPH speed limit at 30 – 40 MPH. How is that safe? I can’t even comprehend how your brain would think that pulling in front of someone going 30 MPH slower then they are is a good idea. What really makes me mad about this is that I get stuck behind one of these idiots almost everyday. So instead of their poorly functioning brain only putting their own life in danger they are now putting my life in danger and that is when I get irate.
The Force Merge
We have all dealt with these a-holes. They drive to the very end of their soon to be non-existent lane and then just start coming over most of the time without even activating their blinker. What!? You are trying to enter my lane, my space. Just because your lane is ending you don’t have the right to just come over and invade my space. If you had used your brain 50 ft ago you could have merged into my lane like all of the other people with common sense. These are the same pricks that try to board the airplane with seating group 1 despite the fact that seating group 6 is printed in bold on their boarding pass.
The 90 Degree Merge
Oh you douches are some of my favorites. These jackholes generally appear in a stop and go traffic situation usually known as rush hour. Normal people roll along side the crawling traffic at 3 – 4 MPH with their blinker on and then find a nice gap to smoothly merge into. These douches come to a dead stop in the merge lane and then crank their wheel 90 degrees and force a small corner of their bumper into the gap between two stopped cars. Now the entire on-ramp / merge lane is blocked while these guys complete the equivalent of a 10 point turn trying to straighten their car out
