It's summer construction season and that means its time for all these assholes to come out of the woodwork. You're driving down the road and a sign ahead tells you that the road will merge to a single lane in a mile, except about a half mile before the merge some asshole has parked his car in the right lane. Now instead of allowing people to actually, you know, merge, traffic forced into a single lane well before the actual merge point.

I'm sure Seacrest has done some civil engineering work in his life so he can tell us that he knows the real answer.

I fucking loathe those people who wait until the last possible second, as it further gums up the works, and penalizes those who did the proper thing.

Denied LOUDLY.

The ones that annoy me are the drivers who after seeing what is going on switch lanes to the merged lane to fly up a few more spots and have to merge in again. Like those 3 extra spots up are really going to make them get going any faster

I fucking loathe those people who wait until the last possible second, as it further gums up the works, and penalizes those who did the proper thing.

Denied LOUDLY.

Properly?????? What the fuck do you mean "properly"? The proper way is to use both lanes until you can't. Why would we make things slower by abandoning a perfectly good stretch of road a half mile before we have to? If people didn't act like savages and took turns from each lane, there wouldn't be a problem.

Properly?????? What the fuck do you mean "properly"? The proper way is to use both lanes until you can't. Why would we make things slower by abandoning a perfectly good stretch of road a half mile before we have to? If people didn't act like savages and took turns from each lane, there wouldn't be a problem.

My wife is one of those people that moves right immediately upon seeing the sign and I've had this argument with her many times.

The "proper" method is supposed to be the zipper method, but most people don't do it right.

If the right lane is ending, driving in the right lane until it ends and then sitting there, stopped, waiting to be let in is not the zipper method. Everyone lining up in the left lane 4 blocks before the right lane ends isn't exactly efficient, either.

Zipper Method:
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/zippermerge/

With video:
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/07/the ... ive-ruder/

I fucking loathe those people who wait until the last possible second, as it further gums up the works, and penalizes those who did the proper thing.

Denied LOUDLY.

I leave the ass of my vehicle in the end lane so as to block these dickheads...

cluv, I dont want to see you falling in with the wrong crowd (early mergers)

Switching off the Ryan and onto the Ike, I used to laugh my ass off at the "proper" folks who immediately jump into the Eisenhower entry "lane" south of Roosevelt and go 5-10 mph for the next six blocks.

I have found that the groups with the least amount of social power are the most protective of their lanes when I try to merge

Women are at the top of the list. I cannot create a socio economic theory with them as a test group because it may just be that they suck at driving

I have found that the groups with the least amount of social power are the most protective of their lanes when I try to merge.

Women are at the top of the list. I cannot create a socio economic theory with them as a test group because it may just be that they suck at driving.

Similarly, I see the same people walking very slowly and inhibiting the movement of other people in the grocery store, malls, parking lots, public gatherings, etc. I think, as you said, they feel powerless in their own lives and feel that one of the only ways they can exercise power over anyone is by this (childish, IMHO) display.

Is this why you criticize me for not dinging my bell while biking at Busse?

if life were an ibm commercial an ITS highway would automatically merge our cars for us keeping speed as high as possible.

fuck you and waiting in line btw, stay in the closed lane as long as possible, find a slow moving semi and cut in front of it