Merging into traffic

Wave Motion Gun 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 1392	People merging into traffic from a ramp are supposed to YIELD.THAT MEANS SLOW DOWN NOT TO TRY TO RACE ME IF IM ON THE MAIN ROAD.Then they honk their horns like Im at fault?
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	I've had that problem as well. If you are going faster on the acceleration ramp, yeah slow down to where you get behind the person that is in the right lane. If at best, get in the left lane before the on-ramp. That way you can stay at you own speed and it's up to them whether they go faster or slower than you. Semi-trucks do that all the time and I do it myself. Sometimes people drive too slow onto the on-ramp and cause more congestion for the rest of the people on the interstate.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: merging and lane changes are the worst. i just drove all over LA the past five days. i've driven easily 700 miles in the past five days. fuck it. Damn! But did you have fun besides the driving?
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Saruman_w 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 10803 Super Mod	This is the reason why I try to avoid merging onto busy interstates. I find the least traffic and merge there. Because if I do yield to the incoming traffic and wait until the opportunity where I can merge some impatient fuckstick is honkin' at me and then tries to swerve around from behind me to merge into the same traffic 'cause I'm actually TRYING not to get myself killed.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: merging and lane changes are the worst. i just drove all over LA the past five days. i've driven easily 700 miles in the past five days. fuck it. Damn! But did you have fun besides the driving? yes c: driving wasn't honestly that bad. the worst part was driving home from santa monica after a midnight showing of rocky horror. i can't wash my car because somebody hit it so my windshield was kind of dirty and i need to install new wiper blades anyways. it was an hour and a half in complete darkness at three in the morning and the stretches of road were in dire need of painting. i honestly thought to myself, "if i ever die in a car accident, it'll be here on this road." so so scary. extra scary because i had someone else in the car. I'm so jealous of you!! I wanna go and see RHPS again. I miss going to the shows. I wish that I could dress up as Magenta or what someone called at a show, Magenta-furter.
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palmer10 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 1264	atticusfinch wrote: merging and lane changes are the worst. i just drove all over LA the past five days. i've driven easily 700 miles in the past five days. fuck it. I would probably rather shoot myself than drive through LA or if I drive through the right section of LA I'm sure someone would take care of that for me. I avoid big city traffic at all costs. That's what happens when you are raised in the sticks. Five lanes bumber to bumber at 80 mph, cars merging in and out of traffic...no thanks.

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vkimo 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2096 Super Mod Editor	There was this horrible area on the freeway that always stressed me out. It was not only a merge, but it was an exit! So if you were merging, you had to watch out for people taking the exit that was in the same lane. Or if you were exiting you needed to make sure you didn't ram someone trying to get on. The lane was only like two blocks long. Ugh. They finally made a new lane for exiting just recently.

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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: merging and lane changes are the worst. i just drove all over LA the past five days. i've driven easily 700 miles in the past five days. fuck it. Damn! But did you have fun besides the driving? yes c: driving wasn't honestly that bad. the worst part was driving home from santa monica after a midnight showing of rocky horror. i can't wash my car because somebody hit it so my windshield was kind of dirty and i need to install new wiper blades anyways. it was an hour and a half in complete darkness at three in the morning and the stretches of road were in dire need of painting. i honestly thought to myself, "if i ever die in a car accident, it'll be here on this road." so so scary. extra scary because i had someone else in the car. I'm so jealous of you!! I wanna go and see RHPS again. I miss going to the shows. I wish that I could dress up as Magenta or what someone called at a show, Magenta-furter. they have showings at the nuart every friday in santa monica and at another theater in hollywood (i think). they're only fun if you know the movie line-by-line though because there's people yelling the whole time. would've dressed up but i didn't know i was even going til a few hours before the show. besides, i only like dressing up when there's a costume contest like at the showing they do annually here where there's only like me and four other real fans. last year these college kids infiltrated our showing, it was weak. i hate that they go they're so dumb they just show up in lingerie and the guys all dress as rocky. it was lame. nobody ever dresses up as meatloaf or dr. scott or the narrator so this year i'm going as meatloaf. i'll either win or lose, but i'm just happy knowing i'm not just up there with all my itty bits hanging out. there's no merit in that kind of win. I've been to several of those shows and that's what I usually saw. Some people were willing to dress like the party goers, rocky, eddie, dr. scott; after the owner of the theater got pissed about everyone dressing alike, they started to dispurse, giving other characters some attention.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: merging and lane changes are the worst. i just drove all over LA the past five days. i've driven easily 700 miles in the past five days. fuck it. Damn! But did you have fun besides the driving? yes c: driving wasn't honestly that bad. the worst part was driving home from santa monica after a midnight showing of rocky horror. i can't wash my car because somebody hit it so my windshield was kind of dirty and i need to install new wiper blades anyways. it was an hour and a half in complete darkness at three in the morning and the stretches of road were in dire need of painting. i honestly thought to myself, "if i ever die in a car accident, it'll be here on this road." so so scary. extra scary because i had someone else in the car. I'm so jealous of you!! I wanna go and see RHPS again. I miss going to the shows. I wish that I could dress up as Magenta or what someone called at a show, Magenta-furter. they have showings at the nuart every friday in santa monica and at another theater in hollywood (i think). they're only fun if you know the movie line-by-line though because there's people yelling the whole time. would've dressed up but i didn't know i was even going til a few hours before the show. besides, i only like dressing up when there's a costume contest like at the showing they do annually here where there's only like me and four other real fans. last year these college kids infiltrated our showing, it was weak. i hate that they go they're so dumb they just show up in lingerie and the guys all dress as rocky. it was lame. nobody ever dresses up as meatloaf or dr. scott or the narrator so this year i'm going as meatloaf. i'll either win or lose, but i'm just happy knowing i'm not just up there with all my itty bits hanging out. there's no merit in that kind of win. I've been to several of those shows and that's what I usually saw. Some people were willing to dress like the party goers, rocky, eddie, dr. scott; after the owner of the theater got pissed about everyone dressing alike, they started to dispurse, giving other characters some attention. here we get rocky, frank-n-furter, magenta, columbia, riff raff, brad, janet, and just people in lingerie. sigh. i hate living in a college town. I know what you mean. College folk go there just to make scenes and get drunk in the parking lot; it's not even Rocky related. At least where I went was Lake Station, IN and it was sooo much better than the one I was gonna go to at ISU. I think I'm going to start a Rocky forum, so this doesn't get too off topic.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	I agree! Let's get back on subject. What I also hate that includes with merging/exiting on ramps is when someone decides to ride your ass in the left lane when you are trying to pass a semi-truck.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	You can speed up and merge in front of them, a tight fit. People try to do that when semi trucks are giving a turn signal to get into the left lane. I slow down and let the semi truck over. My husband drove them for 4 years and he got into an accident; it's not fun.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: You can speed up and merge in front of them, a tight fit. People try to do that when semi trucks are giving a turn signal to get into the left lane. I slow down and let the semi truck over. My husband drove them for 4 years and he got into an accident; it's not fun. yeah but in LA a "tight fit" could be misinterpreted as "i'm cutting you off" and there are some angry drivers out there. i was in this town about half an hour outside of my own on my way home and i had enough room to make a lane change and there was this guy behind me who was like two inches away from me obviously wanting to pass me and so i signaled and made a lane change a little bit closer than i'm normally comfortable with but i was intimidated by the guy behind me. the guy i went in front of didn't have to slow down or anything for me but he started flashing his brights and honking his horn and i was freaked out because that town is full of gangs and i'm like "this guy's going to pull a gun on me..." he followed me into every lane flashing his brights and he'd pass me and make abrupt lane changes in front of me without signaling then brake check me... it was horrible. he did that for fifteen minutes til i exited. people are so awful. That guy sounds like a complete asshole to me! So what? You had to cut him off because of the other dumbass behind you. Honestly, if I was you and that guy kept riding my ass, I would have break checked him. I wouldn't care if he wrecked into my car or not, it will be proving a point: Don't drive on someone's ass while in the hammer lane. they are trying to pass the dumbass in the right lane that's going the same speed as you, no matter how much you accelerate. Well, that's what happens where I live.
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mysticwryter 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 2850	atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: atticusfinch wrote: mysticwryter wrote: You can speed up and merge in front of them, a tight fit. People try to do that when semi trucks are giving a turn signal to get into the left lane. I slow down and let the semi truck over. My husband drove them for 4 years and he got into an accident; it's not fun. yeah but in LA a "tight fit" could be misinterpreted as "i'm cutting you off" and there are some angry drivers out there. i was in this town about half an hour outside of my own on my way home and i had enough room to make a lane change and there was this guy behind me who was like two inches away from me obviously wanting to pass me and so i signaled and made a lane change a little bit closer than i'm normally comfortable with but i was intimidated by the guy behind me. the guy i went in front of didn't have to slow down or anything for me but he started flashing his brights and honking his horn and i was freaked out because that town is full of gangs and i'm like "this guy's going to pull a gun on me..." he followed me into every lane flashing his brights and he'd pass me and make abrupt lane changes in front of me without signaling then brake check me... it was horrible. he did that for fifteen minutes til i exited. people are so awful. That guy sounds like a complete asshole to me! So what? You had to cut him off because of the other dumbass behind you. Honestly, if I was you and that guy kept riding my ass, I would have break checked him. I wouldn't care if he wrecked into my car or not, it will be proving a point: Don't drive on someone's ass while in the hammer lane. they are trying to pass the dumbass in the right lane that's going the same speed as you, no matter how much you accelerate. Well, that's what happens where I live. i would've messed with him but i was convinced he was in a gang. everyone there is. i'd rather not get in an accident with a gang member. That's cool. I can understand your safety. LA is a big place where a lot can happen; good or bad. I bet you a Astro Pop that you would do it where I'm from.
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adventure_of_link 2 years 1 month ago Posts: 11018 Super Mod	and shit like this is why I ALWAYS play the push it to the limit song from the scarface soundtrack every time I go on the interstate... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhsTmiK7Q2M -- this one people (and feel free to ignore the 2 minutes and 22 seconds of silence at the end).

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