Merging onto the highway
by Chris 7 comments Leave a comment April 4th, 2008
35mph is not a proper merging speed!
The last few weeks I’ve encountered an epidemic of people merging onto the Interstate at frighteningly low speeds. Sometimes 20, sometimes 30 miles per hour slower than the posted speed limit. I have never in my life been on a highway, Interstate, freeway or tollway that had a speed limit of 35 miles per hour.
I know you were going 35mph when you pulled onto the on-ramp, but you need to speed up!
I don’t want to get hurt or die because you’re an idiot. So please, for more information please visit WikiHow: How to merge onto the highway without crashing.
I hate people, but most of all I hate unaware people.
You think your interstate problem is bad? It’s even worse with foot traffic in NYC. Walking around midtown is strinkingly similar to playing Paperboy or Frogger, and I have to devote 90% of my brain to collision detection. Things get worse when someone slows to less than standard 3.5mph walking speed, or decides to stop entirely and point at the Empire State Building.
I also hate people with absurdly large umbrellas.
My mom gets on the highway like this… I hate it.
Ted, my most hated part of NYC is when for whatever reason there is a HUGE mass of people coming down one side of the street and they are all going the way you aren’t. Like a human car wash or something. If you try and turn right or something but the sea of people are crossing the street, well you might be crossing the street whether you like it or not.
And yeah the umbrellas suck.
truthfully I think those people just never had the great driving instructor that I did… would yell “keep yer gas comin, keep yer gas comin!” louder and louder as I merged, so now that’s all I hear on the on-ramp… but alas my driving days are few and far between.
Ian I know exactly what you mean. all TOO well, as I live on 33rd st right next to the empire state.
and like I understand the need for umbrella. I sure as hell don’t want to walk around getting soaked. the problem is you have these jackasses (mostly middle-aged men) carrying 10-foot obese golf umbrellas through the “human car wash” causing much unnecessary chaos. it’s gotten to the point that I actually have said “your umbrella is TOO BIG” to some of these people’s faces in passing.
kind of like how I say “get OFF OF THAT” to blackberry addicts
but that is another rant entirely. chris, post something about blackberries so I can vent.
Beyond just the size of the umbrellas there is another problem. This last winter break my girlfriend and I went to visit her family on Long Island. We had Broadway tickets so we went into the city. It was raining that day and she insisted on using her normal size umbrella. Well, its also pretty windy in the city with those winds going between the buildings. A big gust came and the top of her umbrella smacked me right in the face. This was a normal sized one too, so a big one would’ve been like a parachute or something.
Oh and I really liked this:
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Hey, the site looks great. By the way, we call the bad drivers here in Boise, 2C’rs. The 2C thing, is based off of the license plate designator for where they are from. So when you see a 2C on someone’s license plate, run for the hills. LOL Take care.
Thanks for the comments guys! If I’m ever in Boise I will definitely look out for the 2C’rs.
As for umbrella people, they’ve always been a problem for me. I usually forget to bring mine, so I’m usually walking pretty fast when it’s raining so that I don’t get soaked. Unfortunately, people with umbrellas don’t feel the need to walk quickly at all. They seem to walk slower and take up more space than usual. Bah!