Nah, they read it. Just want to cut in line because they feel more important that everyone else. It’s pretty obvious when somebody pulls that shit on purpose. Then others you can tell they are oblivious. I usually let them in either way because I try to not get annoyed by the little things in life but sometimes it’s hard to not get annoyed…
That's a no
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BeUnique@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t really understand what zipper merging has to do with this if the issue is that they waited until the very end of the lane to try and merge and now have to do it immediately. (At least that’s what I assume is happening based on the description)
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Zipper merge is intended to happen at a gore point. Zippers aren’t randomly closed at various sections and open at others, they close at one end - that’s where the merge is. It’s very literally like a zipper.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Ohh okay that makes more sense
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh he read them. He just don’t give a fuck about anyone but him.
FatVegan@leminal.space 1 month ago
So you believe people should merge into one lane 2 miles ahead instead of using both lanes and tgen zipper merge? I love when people can’t drive but get angry at people who can.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I believe people should 1) not be assholes trying to get ahead of everyone. 2) merge appropriately given the current conditions.
Nobody said shit about some2 mile limit.
Zipper merge is great. But we all know we’re not talking about the person who even knows what that is. We’re talking about that privileged fuck that thinks he can take it.
homes@piefed.world 1 month ago
Just merge and move on with your life
unrealMinotaur@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Thus might be the best rage bait I’ve even seen on Lemmy. o7
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They read them just fine, but they are special
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Wow who would have thought that this would be such a divided topic
Clutter@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
First time on the internet?
sleet01@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
ITT: people too hyped on zipper-merging to read and comprehend the actual issue being discussed.
AlfalFaFail@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
Hey look, the noisy smelly car drivers are arguing. Have fun risking your lives every day!
Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 1 month ago
VROOM VROOM LOOK AT ME I DRIVE A CAR. I SMELL LIKE GASOLINE FUMES AND I GIVE ASTHMA TO LITTLE KIDS.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I don’t entirely agree with you, but I laugh with you and applaud your humor and can’t disagree with you.
LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Haha knew the zipper merge comments would not disappoint.
Y’all dont understand Americans or how we drive. It’s all based on pride and ego, not sense.
FrChazzz@lemmus.org 1 month ago
I don’t know what it is, but in my experience, Hawai’i driving is just so much better than anywhere else I’ve lived–especially when it comes to this exact scenario. When there’s a lane closure, most people just… get over. Give a shaka, get a shaka, done. When you do have someone blast past everyone to try and merge at the last possible minute people just… let them in. Might get stink eye for do it. Maybe “one finger shaka.” But it’s either some tourist who doesn’t know better and we all feel smug knowing that they have to go back to where they came from or it’s someone in a genuine hurry and just let em go.
I think it’s partly due to Hawai’i having a more collectivist mindset. Everybody is just trying to get to where they need to be, everyone kind of understands that traffic can suck and so no one is too concerned with “being on time” (again, my experience). Plus there aren’t any billboards on the roads (at least not that I’ve seen) and you pretty much have something pretty to look at the whole time you’re in traffic. Lower speed limits too. It’s peaceful. You rarely hear someone honk. Though I will say that I’ve noticed drivers getting more aggressive as more local kine people move away.
I went back to Florida a few years ago to visit my mom while she still lived there and it was miserable to drive anywhere. I got the sense that no one wanted to be where they were–they didn’t want to be in their car so they raced off to work, where they also did not want to be, so they raced home, where they also did not want to be; all in Florida where I feel like most people who live there don’t want to be tbh. I used to be an angry and impatient driver. In Hawai’i I’m like one grandpa. I stay in slow lane and drive the speed limit.
Leviathan@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That sign was for him and for you to prepare to leave the room for a car to zipper merge when the time comes, dummy.
Jesus, the only thing worse than incorrect is confidently incorrect.
LurkingLuddite@piefed.social 1 month ago
Just like most of the people in this comment section that assume it’s totally fine to rush to the front of an already full lane.
There is a reason on-ramps have their own traffic lights in dense cities to control how many try to get on at once, and it’s because all these assholes think rushing up just to slow down and cram in is magically zipper merging.
sleet01@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Thank you for the practical demonstration.
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yeah that’ll teach em