On Ramp Perp

Where to begin...there were so many gaffes this morning, I'm just not sure which one to choose. Let's start with the one I observed from the safety of my own vehicle.

There's a point on a major freeway in San Diego where several smaller roads have to merge onto the road. Inevitably, this causes traffic to slow down since we're trying to work on that zipper effect as mentioned earlier on this blog. Of course not everyone chooses to partake in such a social norm. That's fairly status quo. However, this morning I watched a guy merge FROM the smaller road onto the on ramp by jumping over before everyone in front of him, THEN, once he had comfortably acclimated into the flow of traffic, he refused to let one of his compatriots from the smaller lane zipper in front of him. OK, I tried to draw a picture to show what happened. The guy in red is the perp. The two cars in front of him are merging onto the ramp, as they should. He, on the other hand, is going out of turn and out of the lane to get on the on ramp first. Now he's safely in the on ramp traffic, where (since he got over before the end of his ramp) he should now take his turn and let someone in from his side road. Does he do that? Of course not! He's in! That's all that matters to him. Screw the guy behind him who's turn it is to merge. I hope that makes sense. All that needs to come across is that some drivers are so selfish that they don't even realize they're screwing over the group of people they were just waiting in line with. UGH. And, I ended that sentence in a preposition. Good lord. This day is going GREAT! :)