Merging Again

Joe is going to kill me, as I seem to be stuck on this damn topic. Can someone please explain to me why in the hell it is so difficult for some people to merge? Today this asshat was merging onto the highway and made every one of us slam on our brakes so he can merge into traffic going 20 mph faster than he was.

I was taught that you are supposed to get up to speed and then merge into the flow of traffic, not making everyone slow down for you. I swear these people would never make it in California, where often you have a stop light in order to merge into traffic. No joke, there are actual stop lights  I understand that some other states do this too, including Florida.

You have to come to a complete stop and then when it changes to green, you floor it to get on and merge. Yet, here in Virginia, we have 300-foot or more merge lanes and these jokers still can’t seem to figure that shit out.

Today, I wanted to say thank you to the guy that properly merged. He managed to get up to speed and merged between me and the car in front of me.

Now, last week, I was merging into a traffic circle as we seem to think that in America they will work, but all they do is confuse people. The one that I was at has a dedicated lane for those that are going the way that I was going. But the lady in front of me came to a complete stop, causing me and everyone behind me to slam on their brakes (it’s a yield you genius) then she crossed over our dedicated lane into the other lane, causing the car in that lane to slam on their brakes to avoid hitting her. Then she gets into that lane and goes the same way that I’m going, which means, that there was never a reason to go into that lane to start with, well enough the dedicated lane actually can go all the way around too. Some people are just not that bright I guess.