Am I a hooligan?

[sbrenskell]

He's lucky you don't carry a gun. You never know he could have tried to car jack you. Which is why I want to get a conceal carry permit. You just never know these days.

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[FranzVonHoffer]

I'm 52 and sometimes speed around this little round about in an area behind our office like the Fountain at the Long Beach GP.

A few months ago I had some younger lady waiting for me with a stroller and she jumped in front of my car and told me she'd been watching me speed around the circle and will call the police if I continue doing it. Scared the crap out off me but she said the stroller was empty she just wanted to make a point.

So yeah, that shit happens. So glad i'm not married to that whack job.

 

[buymycar]

People are just nuts anymore. Just yesterday, going home form work, the exit I take off the highway queues-up pretty bad in the afternoons and sometimes takes 2 or 3 cycles of the traffic light to get through. Exit ramp has 2 lanes and the inside lane backs-up more because that traffic is crossing, the right lane is a merge lane so people will come down the right and "dive-in" if there is an gap in the cars.....very frustrating for people who have waited patiently. So guy does it to me, "shoots the gap" and then hits his brakes and creeps through the intersection....I was livid and gave him a horn blast. Guy freaks and starts following me....we get side by side at next light and he rolls his window down and says "did I do something wrong?" No, you just cut in the line of 30 cars and were an a$$ by brake-checking me and creeping across the intersection.....guy had the nerve to tell me that honking at him was "rude".......driving anymore is like the twilight zone..........

The correct way to merge is to use the entire lane that is ending and merge where it is designed to, as the engineers intended. Merging early and blocking the other lane creates problems. He was doing it right. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-mergers-are-good-for-traffic.html

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[Grimmer]

The correct way to merge is to use the entire lane that is ending and merge where it is designed to, as the engineers intended. Merging early and blocking the other lane creates problems. He was doing it right.

I understood his post to be describing a completely different situation, not a lane closure merge. There are two lanes, one for turning left (across traffic - longer wait) and one for turning right (merging with traffic flow). The guy he describes couldn't wait like everyone else to turn left so he chose the right turn only lane to jump the line and then darted in front of the left turn traffic.

Wouldn't be so bad if he had moved safely into an appropriately sized gap and then moved along with the rest of the traffic (although still jumping the line), but to forcibly squeeze in and then creeping along delaying everyone behind really elevates him to new heights of douchery...

 

[GT Pony]

I understood his post to be describing a completely different situation, not a lane closure merge. There are two lanes, one for turning left (across traffic - longer wait) and one for turning right (merging with traffic flow).

The way I read it was it's an off ramp with two lanes and then the right lane ends and cars in the right lane need to merge into the left lane before the traffic light.

"Exit ramp has 2 lanes and the inside lane backs-up more because that traffic is crossing, the right lane is a merge lane so people will come down the right and "dive-in" if there is an gap in the cars."

 

[Vato]

I'll treat you guys to a short video tomorrow so you get an idea of the area. Maybe the jerk will be there tomorrow to confront me again. Hopefully no objects are thrown at me.

 

[2morrow]

Blipping the throttle is perfectly natural for any V8 (or any cool car). I would expect you to do that.

Homeboy just seems to be a crotchety old man that's looking to break his hip by jumping in front of a moving car.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes...

 

[TheGame]

Hahaha too funny man. the guy was even more made after he hit the pole

 

[FranzVonHoffer]

Hahaha too funny man. the guy was even more made after he hit the pole

what if that was probably Stephen Paddock and that was the incident that pushed him over the edge. :gossip:

 

[Rickycardo]

what if that was probably Stephen Paddock and that was the incident that pushed him over the edge. :gossip:

No one is responsible for another's actions. You can make believe guilt but I won't.

 

[NoVaGT]

The correct way to merge is to use the entire lane that is ending and merge where it is designed to, as the engineers intended. Merging early and blocking the other lane creates problems. He was doing it right. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/why-last-second-lane-mergers-are-good-for-traffic.html

Bullshit.

Bullshit-bullshit-bullshit-bullshit-bullshit.

The people that run up to the front of the line, and then cut in, can go fuck themselves. I never let them in, and will block the merging lane given the opportunity.

 

[GT Pony]

Bullshit.

Bullshit-bullshit-bullshit-bullshit-bullshit.

The people that run up to the front of the line, and then cut in, can go fuck themselves. I never let them in, and will block the merging lane given the opportunity.

There's a difference between zipper merging correctly like in the video, vs the a-holes that run up to the very end and even on the shoulder cutting people off the get in. The latter is what you're talking about. People just need to be courteous when merging and it usually works out fine for everyone.

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