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Re: Freeway: Lane change vs. merging from onramp
Gene Kennedy 95SL2 <gkennedy@miracosta.cc.ca.us> wrote:
>It is not worth a car accident to prove your right if your the one on the
>freeway but if the car entering the freeway has a more expensive car than
>you do - hit em!!!!! Well maybe just lay on the horn or use your finger.
I assume you wrote for humor, not for seriousness (the advice seems
contradictory anyhow). But some people sometimes set aside or lose their
sense of humor when they get behind the wheel of a car.
I have used my car horn to express my offended dignity, but I learned
from my mistakes :-) that doing such things gains me no advantage in the
situation but makes it worse. I prefer to use my car horn as a last
resort to warn inattentive drivers of hazard, not as the voice of my
anger when I feel put-upon. Avoiding an incident on the road costs me
much less than escalating one and trying to prove myself in the right. I
have been spared the true humiliation of causing an accident in anger,
but close calls have reduced my productivity at work.
Steve Blackwelder
<sblackwelder@firstbyte.davd.com>
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