I think Ian has been with me when we've had this happen. If I am going to follow the rules and good etiquette by damn everyone is going to do the same.
I straddle the lanes about half way into the merging lane and half way into the closing lane to keep people from passing me buy gutter fucking me in the closing lane. -----Original Message----- From: Ian Skinner Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:20 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Top 10 Super Rant (was Friday Rant) +several orders of magnitude When this happens to me, I start trying to figure out some kind of traffic control device that will rise up from the lane division line, closing these people off from merging. How much of the lane is closed off would be dependant on how fast or slow the overall traffic is going. The slower the traffic, the more closed off. There are significant technical challenges to over come, but I just think that would be thing ever to come along for traffic. -------------- Ian Skinner Web Programmer BloodSource www.BloodSource.org Sacramento, CA "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" - Cynthia Dunning .....-----Original Message----- .....From: Eric Carlisle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] .....Sent: Friday, May 13, 2005 1:14 PM .....To: CF-Community .....Subject: Re: Top 10 Super Rant (was Friday Rant) ..... .....This one really chaps me... ..... .....On a highway, there's a sign for an upcoming lane closure. People in .....the "to be closed" lane don't merge into the open lanes. They wait .....until they're 10 feet away from the lane closure and start signalling. .....The last-minute merging, or course, leads to hella delays. ..... .....Trying to be a sport, I get in the open lane somewhat early. As I'm .....putting ahead slowly (as traffic has allready been slowed), there are .....still the jackasses that zoom by in the "to be closed" lane -- thinking .....they're saving themselves time, when it's actually just wasting everyone .....else's. I'm fuming in the car, saying "If that dude eventually signals .....to get in my lane, I'm not gonna let him in". ..... .....But it's usually the car ahead of me that waves in 10 or so of these .....asses, rewarding their obnoxious behavior. At this point, I'm about to .....pop. ..... .....Eric ..... .....Duane Boudreau wrote: ..... .....>I'll add one or two of mine to the list. .....> .....>1. Assholes who think it is perfectly ok to flick their cigarette butts .....out .....>the window of their car door. You've got an ash tray in your car use it! .....> .....>2. Assholes who mistake the yield signs on on-ramps for speed up and cut .....as .....>many cars off as possible signs. .....> .....> .....> ..... ..... ..... ..... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Purchase Homesite Plus with Dreamweaver from House of Fusion, a Macromedia Authorized Affiliate and support the CF community. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=55 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:157570 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
