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In reply to the discussion: What causes you to go into a rage while driving? [View all]d_r
(6,908 posts)there is an intersection where the two lanes reduce to one. We live in the city, the road is one of the roads into the city from the suburbs. So this is the point where it goes from two lanes coming in to one lane. It is about four blocks from our street, and about two blocks further is the turn for my kid's school. So we have to go on it for a few blocks in the morning when traffic is coming in from the suburbs. Usually traffic is at a stop beyond the street where we turn in. So it is stopped, and usually people in the right lane are kind enough to just let you pull out because they are stopped.
Now here is the thing. Everyone there knows that that the left lane is going to end in a few blocks so 95% of the people pull in to the right lane and wait it out, and let people take turns coming out of the side streets. But there are always some people who will race right down to through the intersection and merge into the right lane in the intersection. Everybody else has been waiting a turn, but these ones think they get to race down to the end and cut in. And those last second merges stop everyone from getting through the intersection and end up blocking the box for the street going the other way. And I swear it is always mercedes and bmw and lexus that pull this every single morning. its like they think they are just more important or something.