Sunday, September 15, 2013
Action Hero
I was driving home from a trip and traffic on the Interstate started to slow down. I saw the sign that said "right lane closed ahead, merge left". I moved to the left lane and joined the other cars that were already there slowed down. After several minutes of slowly moving ahead, car after car sped past on the right to see how far up they could get and then barge into the line. Of course they slowed the whole thing up and made everyone have to slam on the breaks. One almost caused and accident. Suddenly the pickup in front of me moved into the left lane. He didn't speedup, he just stayed even with me. I made sure I left his space in front of me open. Car after car flew up behind him, honking and honking. He just stayed even with me. The line moved steadily without incident. When the right lane closed he slipped back in front of me. I gave him the best thumbs up and salute I could! You sir are a true hero! By the way, his license plate was from Texas and had a combat wounded veteran symbol!
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Hero indeed.
We were on our way home from an appt today and on a very busy highway. Some idiot in a white truck must've been having a fit of road rage because he was right on this blue car. I mean when next to us it seemed like a foot at most maybe less. I would've called police if I was not busy driving in this traffic. They dodge in and out and went out of sight and I was doing at least 60.
So this idiot is all about intimidating someone who may've made an innocent mistake and putting a gazillion drivers at risk for a huge interstate pileup ...all to prove some point??
Too bad your veteran hero wasn't near by. Wonder what he would've done?
Bit it's more complicated than you imagine. The "late merge" is often encouraged, and indeed in some places mandatory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_merge.
Bit it's more complicated than you imagine. The "late merge" is often encouraged, and indeed in some places mandatory. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_merge.
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