Driving PMO's

[fabsroman]

Good Lord, I think I could go on forever.

This happened to me a couple of months ago. I was approaching an on-ramp for the interstate and the road was fairly crowded. I left a gap in front of me so that somebody coming off the ramp could merge easily and I could merge behind them as I approached the ramp. Within 100 yards of the ramp, at about 45 mph, the idiot directly behind me pulled out of the lane and into the left lane to pass me and cut me off right before the ramp. All to gain a single car spot on the road. After jamming on the brakes to slide in front of me and slow down to merge on the ramp, he took the ramp extremely slow. Man was I pissed. He barely even sped up when he was merging on the interstate. I was completely confused at how he was in a hurry 10 seconds beforehand and now he was at a leasurely pace.

Another one I love is approaching a red light on a multi lane road. I usually ease off the gas before getting to the light, and whenever I happen to be the first car approaching the light, somebody always has to try and speed by me and cut me off so that they can be the first car in that lane (i.e., there are already cars ahead of them in the other lanes). I especially love it when I am driving my truck and they try that stuff because when my truck isn't loaded, it is pretty quick.

Another thing I hate is when I put my blinker on to change lanes and the idiot behind, but in the lane I want to change into, speeds up to try and cut me off. That happened to me yesterday as I was trying to pull behind a tractor trailer to get to an off ramp. I saw the guy coming in pretty quick in that lane, so I just backed off and let him cut right in front of me. If I had sped up, I would have screwed him because he had nowhere to go but into the back of the tractor trailer, but then I would have missed my exit. What I have noticed around here though, is that people pay attention to the blinker on my truck. I guess they don't mind getting hit by a Taurus, but think twice when it happens to be an F-350.