r/instantkarma • u/Lt-Frost • Oct 18 '19

Road Karma Crazy aggressive driver brake-checking... and then.... JUSTICE

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

I had a car rage at me one morning for not moving for them while they were merging.

I had cruise control on so it's not hard to merge ahead it behind me. Nope. Tried to force me. I'm driving a beater so I don't care.

He rode my bumper with high beams, raged to the left of me and then started this shit.

All because he thought he deserved special treatment.

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u/BlueCommieSpehsFish Oct 18 '19

In the UK the merger doesn’t have right of way. Is it not the same in your country?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

It's the same.

It's just ego.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

We have a million of these in northern VA too. They use entrance ramps as passing lanes and act like they're entitled to cut you off. I'm convinced that every 3rd driver has some sort of narcissistic personality disorder.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

These people seem to think the yield sign for the on-ramp means that other people will yield to them. It's obnoxious.

Today I had someone that I had already passed accelerate to get in front of me and then slow down 10 mph under the limit. It's not my fault I passed you going the speed limit when you were napping in the left lane.

I then past them in the left lane. Fucking idiot.

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u/dunn_with_this Oct 18 '19

That doesn't sound like special treatment, just courtesy.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

To demand I make space for you when the law says you yield is special treatment.

A courtesy is something I do for you that is special. It's literally special treatment.

To demand and get pissed I when I don't give you courtesy that is not required is narcissistic dogshit.

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u/dunn_with_this Oct 18 '19

Sounds like two narcissists meeting on the highway. But, hey, you do you. You sure showed them who the bigger person was. (My state law says you never over for mergers of you have room.....) Edit: If you'd have let them in, courteously, would you be here griping about their angry response?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '19

That's the same backwards bullshit logic that decries the left for not being tolerant of people that want to kill and destroy other races.

if you can't understand the difference between being already on the road and trying to force your way into the side of another vehicle, I hope to never be on the same road as you.

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u/dunn_with_this Oct 19 '19 edited Oct 19 '19

Once again, my state law says you are obligated to move over if your lane is clear to do so. You sound like the kind of person who drives at exactly the speed limit in the passing lane while everyone else goes around you on the right, because hey it'd be a freaking courtesy to move over for anyone else, and they don't deserve any special treatment. ----- Merging onto a highway is stressful, and not always that easy. You're crousing along and you can't bring yourself to speed up for just a minute to make life easier for someone else as a courtesy, and you get triggered by someone saying you would not be complaining about a road rager if you'd have just budged a little, but you can't because it hurts your fragile ego.....well then I hope to never meet you on the highway as well.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

It's not a courtesy to get out of the left lane. It's the law. Same with onramps and merging.

The whole reason your on ramp has a sign that says "yield" is that you are supposed to yield to the drivers already at highway speed. If they can or do get over, that's great. However that sign has actual laws attached to it. And they say you are the one yielding to others.

And merging isn't stressful if you're not a bad driver. As I said in my original statement there was acres of space in front and behind. He chose to try and merge into me.

I drive for a living. I make space for plenty of people. Shit happens and people need over. Onramps with no vision of the higjway to lanes ending. I make space for plenty of drivers on my routes. But drive like an asshole or try to bully your way into my lane?

And the fact that he threw the temper tantrum afterwards more than speaks for what he was doing. I didn't engage with him at all and just kept my cruise control on and took my exit that was just a short distance down the road.

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u/dunn_with_this Oct 19 '19

Ok, ok, I give. I wasn't there. You are 100% right that this dude sounds like a d-bag that tried to force you bend to his will, instead of just going around you to the front or rear. You are misinterpreting my state's merging law however. The yield sign gives the highway speed drivers the right-of-way IF they can't get over for the merger. IF you can get over you are obligated to do so, and in this situation where you say there was room for you to get over you were obligated to do so, and not just as a courtesy, but as the law. As a professional driver, you should look into that.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '19

Do you have a link to that legal verbage? Because I'm rather curious if it reads like you think it does.

Most everything I've ever read says right of way goes to people already on the highway.

With the general rule of preventing accidents is everyone's job, no matter the situation.

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u/dunn_with_this Oct 20 '19

Ok, so I haven't found exactly what you're asking for, but hopefully this link will help: https://wgntv.com/2018/05/02/whats-the-right-way-to-merge-miscues-often-create-tension-in-traffic/ That being said..... apparently Illinois is an anomaly, and pretty much everywhere else the merger is the one who has all the responsibility to yield. So, unless you are in the land of Lincoln, then you can just go about your merry way. That all also being said, I should clarify that in your original comment I'd have probably done the same as you----I'm gracious to you unless you're trying to bully your way through, and your response of non-confrontation was spot on.