I Hate People

Why is it that no-one in this town knows how to drive!?!

Yet another reason why I HATE PEOPLE!!!

In a town where people stop for green lights, and run red, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that merging is completely out of the question. The two merge lanes that piss me off more than anything (mostly because I use them every day) are located coming onto a busy highway and coming off of a bridge.

You would think that merging onto a double lane highway would be easy, and it should be. Unfortunately, the far lane in this case is a turning lane and there are lights a short distance ahead. On this wonderfully designed highway, the traffic in the turning lane gets backed up for quite a distance. Rather than signalling, merging onto the highway, and merging into the turning lane, the geniuses in my town stop in the merging lane and drive the wrong way up the highway to get to the back of the line of traffic that is trying to turn. While this is very dangerous and is a huge problem, we also have idiots (I am included in this group) that drive on the shoulder to pass the idiots who don't know how to merge. Much of this problem is caused by even bigger idiots who won't allow you to merge into their lane for fear that you might reach your destination 5 seconds before they do. It seems like rather adolescent behaviour. "You can't butt in front of me!!!" -- Morons! You might think that creating a double turn lane on this highway would shorten the line-up in the turn lane and thus eliminate the problem. You would be wrong! If the drivers of this city cannot even figure out the concept of merging, how would they ever figure out the mind boggling, inconceivable concept of the double turning lane? Cars would be running into each other, driving on the sidewalks and turning every which way... IT WOULD BE ANARCHY!

As for the merge lane off the bridge, this attaches to both an off ramp and an on ramp. It should be easy enough to continue at a normal speed when leaving the bridge, signal and merge into your lane (which is also a two lane, one way street BTW). Apparently though, it is impossible to merge here. The cars come to a complete stop, back up traffic and wait until it is completely clear to "gun it" into the moving traffic. I can't completely blame the morons in the stopped cars for stopping (although most of the blame lies there), because the cars merging into the on ramp speed and cut off anyone who is trying to come off the bridge (because god knows that cutting in front of someone leaving a lane will get you where you are going faster than merging in behind them).

Although these places piss me off, there is one place in town that really amazes me. Recently, they changed the traffic pattern in front of one of the malls (Zellers Mall). They now have a lane which comes out of the parking lot directly onto the main street. This lane is not a merge lane at all, it is just a single lane that can be used to leave the mall area (a short way up the road, this lane becomes a right turning lane). There are no yield signs, no stop signs, no signs whatsoever. People still stop and wait for the traffic to be clear before continuing in their own lane. Once again, I can say that this is not completely the fault of the idiots leaving the mall. There are a great many other bigger idiots that think that the turning lane is theirs and the people coming out of the mall can go to Hell. They speed through and swerve into that lane as though they were Mario Andretti.

Man, do I ever hate people!!!