Why must you cut?

[peedub64]

I am so tired of sitting in a long line of traffic (usually northbound on 35th in the morning), just to have someone run up along side us and cut the line just before the entrance the bridge. Would you do this at the grocery store? Would you do it at the movie theater? Why is it OK for you to do it when you’re in your car? Be considerate of the rest of us, please!

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[todd_]

Amen! Get in line, you are adding to/creating road rage!

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[voodoo]

I confess, I did that on Meyer Way on the way to the 1st Avenue South bridge this morning. I don’t usually go that way, but decided to when I heard about the traffic on the WS Bridge. Because I don’t normally take that route, I found myself in the wrong lane when turning off of Roxbury and had to cut into a long line of cars to make the northbound ramp. I felt terrible about it but my only other choice would have been to go to Burien.

I guess what I’m saying is that sometimes people make honest mistakes when driving and they really aren’t out to be jerks.

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[jellis]

In all fairness, some of “us” waiting in that line enable this behavior. When its time to finally go and you are sitting there petting your dog, texting, or putting on your make up…you are leaving ample space and time for this.

It doesn’t make it right but if I’m sitting there picking my nose and you have the space/time to get over…go for it!

Also, like voodoo says…some people may not know they need to be in that lane. Then you have this last minute ” oh crap” moment.

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[JayDee]

Similar behavior on Admiral drives me up the wall (I’m talking ’bout you, yellow trike driver). I heard about Burma Shave signs from an older relative…and I wanted to put these signs in the shrubs:

“Why Cheat?”

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“Its only your Friends and Neighbors…”

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“Your are trying to beat.”

I have gotten PO’ed at the backup on 99 southbound to jump in the middle lane thinking it was some slow-boat or stalled car only to discover, no, really the backup is that long.

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In this event I drive over the 1st South Bridge and wend my way back to Alki from Delridge because it was my own fault and won’t cheat back in. But then I “don’t walk” when the “don’t walk” sign flashes at crosswalks.

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[blackwatch]

To be fair….drivers in this city have a politeness disease. I don’t like cutters either, but by lining up the way the merge is on the WS bridge, if people didn’t wait to merge the line would be all the way to Delrige & the Junction. It also makes it dangerous. Within reason.

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[defenestrator]

When it’s a situation of two lanes merging into one, it seems to me the logical and fair way to do it would be for everyone to use both lanes equally, and then take turns merging at the end.

Instead, most people line up in one lane WAY earlier than they need to, and they get annoyed when others use the 2nd (mostly open) lane totally legally to get ahead of everybody.

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[sunshine]

There is no way of knowing why they do, really. But when I used to drive to work, I decided to believe that they were cutting because they were having just one of those days. MAybe thier kid puked up on them at breakfast so they had to change clothes, or thier dog ran off and they had to chase them down, or they couldn’t find thier car keys. And they had a morning meeting or a job interview or a report due by 9, etc.

So then instead of being all irate and indignant I would remind myself that I wasn’t having one of those days. The traffic inconvenienced me, but I didn’t usually have anything big at stake.

So I would cheer them on and hope the day turned out ok for them. And I admit that one or two times I was having THAT DAY, and I will admit, I cut the line.

It was a mind game, but one that got me to reflect on how lucky I was to not be having a crappy day.

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[austin]

My favorites are the ones who don’t want to wait in the line off the bridge to northbound I5, so they ride the right lane to almost the front of the line, put on their left signal and come to a complete stop, blocking all traffic to southbound I5 and beacon hill. I don’t even drive and those people get in my way.

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[JoB]

handy test for the difference between merging and cutting…

if anyone has to put on their brakes for you to merge… you are cutting in line.

it really is that simple.

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