Muffinz0rz posted...

When I was learning to drive, my dad always said to me, "the most dangerous place on the road is around other cars." To this day, it never ceases to surprise me how accurate that statement was/is.

For me, it's people who try to do the "quick slip-in" when there's a backed up exit. A prime example up here in Minnesota is on the 394 --> 94 ramp. I drew a crude map below:



The blue line represents the right lane of a 3-lane portion of 394-E right before the exit to 94-E. This right lane, outside of like 2AM, is always, always always backed up. Unless you have an out-of-state license plate, you have no reason NOT to know this. The blue line represents this backup on the ramp to 94-E.

The first white line represents the far left lane, which is what you take if you want to stay on 394-E.

The first yellow line represents the exit, where if you're in the right lane, you'll get forced onto the 94-E exit, or if you're in the middle/left lane, you'll continue onto 394-E.

Now, the part that pisses me off most is the dotted red lines. These red lines represent the assholes who intentionally bypass the backup and make a dangerous lane change in bumper-to-bumper traffic in that backed up right lane. Sometimes, if they can't get in, they'll just come to a complete stop in the middle lane, which is extremely dangerous for the traffic that wants to continue onto 394-E. These fuckers think they're so much better than everyone else, but they don't realize that they're part of the problem. Even worse, all it takes is one fender-bender accident to make traffic exponentially worse while they're pulled over exchanging information.

These people are the god damned worst people in the world. It's glorified cutting in line and they know it.

THIS. My dad calls it "snaking"; not sure if others call it that or what, but it annoys the crap out of me :<
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