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Old 04-22-2015, 10:02 AM
 
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Oh, so people deserve ill treatment because they support a different "team"?

Lots of political zombies in Seattle, sadly.
Same thing if you drive your car in Texas with an Obama sticker on it. Political zombies exist anywhere there is a concentration of people that stick to one party. Shocker...
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Old 04-22-2015, 10:04 AM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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At the same time, the drivers already in that lane don't need to take it personally when a merging car files in in front of them.

Last time I checked none of us, even people like Jim Carrey, own I-5. Right? We share the road. Even with motorcycles. Oh, no, don't get us started on sharing the freeway with motorcyclists.
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Old 04-22-2015, 10:07 AM
 
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Last time I checked none of us, even people like Jim Carrey, own I-5. Right? We share the road.
Exactly!
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Old 04-22-2015, 11:43 AM
 
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There are too many on-ramps that are too short for traffic to get up to highway speeds before they have to merge. If the person you are about to merge in front of decides to put their foot down (which happens far too often), you have to brake and then end up behind them going even slower.
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Old 04-22-2015, 12:14 PM
 
Location: Alamogordo, NM
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I recall a semi-truck doing this to me. Fortunatey, I drive defensively (my high-school driver's ed teacher told us that we would see just about anything and everything out there when we're driving) so I slammed on my brakes and slowed down. Then I gunned it and got up the merge lane and on to the freeway. They've got that enormous weight and size and we've got ta respect that.
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Old 04-22-2015, 01:04 PM
 
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you are supposed to merge at the speed limit (60 mph). Cars that are entering the freeway are the ones who have to yield to the cars that are already in. So many times, I see drivers merge at 30 mph which creates traffic congestion because they slow every one down.
The correct way for one to merge onto the freeway is to adjust your speed up or down in order to merge onto the freeway safely, for some reason drivers who are merging get this idea that they have the right of way which is a incorrect assumption and for one to go head on at 60 and to try and merge is insane, again the merging driver adjusts his speed up or down to merge safely into freeway traffic.
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Old 04-23-2015, 09:35 PM
 
Location: West Coast
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Many native Seattlites are passive-aggressive weasels with some form of a personality disorder; plain and simple.
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