| This strategy may help most of the time, but not always - Just this morning I got really steamed at this guy in a truck - I have an
EZ-Pass, so I was in the rightmost of the two left EZ-Pass-only lanes
coming up to the big toll booth in Tyson's Corner, VA. The next lane to
my right is an "Exact Change Only" lane, separated from the lane I was
in by a line of short poles starting about 15 feet before the thing you
throw change in. Every morning as I come up to that same rightmost of the two left lanes,
I know from experience that I have to prepare for all the big SUV a-
holes who bully their way over into my lane from the one to the right of
me about ten yards from the gate. This is so they can avoid sitting in the
EZ-Pass line with the rest of us. I've taken to hugging the right dotted
line of my lane just to assert my presence, and find that since starting
this, I've been bullied much less frequently. This morning, however, a black pickup truck waited until LITERALLY the
LAST SECOND before bolting over into my lane. His nose was probably
an inch from hitting the first of that line of short poles, and his tail was
about a foot from hitting my nose. Only my guess that he was going to
do something like that saved me from accelerating just a touch faster
through my gate. He was lucky I guessed his move. Anyone else would've had their nose
bashed in. I was so pissed I fantasized the rest of the way to work that I
had been in my beater and decided not to give ground... So analyzing and planning is definitely good, but relying on other cars to
hold their position and behave as you predict is not the best plan. Sorry, my ass is still chapped from this morning; I'd really have liked to
kick the crap out of that guy for being so inconsiderate and nearly
causing an accident.
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12:04:19 05/03/05
