You're welcome.
Lol. Didnt need a top off on the blinker fluid eh?
You're welcome.
she thinks people merging onto the highway have the right of way
I had to take the car into the dealer for service today. I picked up a small piece of metal in a tire that caused a leak, only noticeable by checking the tire pressure on the dashboard readout. Visually, the tire looked fine. They had to watch for the bubbles to locate it.
At my request, they checked out the headlights. They said my headlights are fine.
And different regions seem to have different assumptions. In Michigan, when you see someone about to merge, you generally step on it a little so the merger can slip in behind you. Here in the PNW, they seem to slow a little to allow you to merge in ahead. My first few mergers here were frustrating.The inability of some people to do a proper merge has bothered me most of my life. But I've become convinced that it's a function of the driver training they received. It's a huge problem in some states, but hardly at all in others. At least that's my observation.
In Michigan, when you see someone about to merge, you generally step on it a little so the merger can slip in behind you.
And different regions seem to have different assumptions. In Michigan, when you see someone about to merge, you generally step on it a little so the merger can slip in behind you. Here in the PNW, they seem to slow a little to allow you to merge in ahead. My first few mergers here were frustrating.
These seem to be old* people.Yes. Drivers who think they are being gracious by letting someone go ahead of them—while disregarding all the cars behind them.
Which is totally unacceptable to anyone who lives in Michigan (to slip in behind), so the only appropriate thing to do is step on it a little harder so that you can get out in front - thus showing them who’s boss.
Which isn't the worst thing, unless the merger has actually run out of on-ramp, floors it, blows past you while driving entirely on the shoulder, swerves in front of you and, without missing a beat, swerves into the next lane over left, cutting between two other cars that only had about a car length between them as it is. You were driving the speed limit (65 MPH).
It's maneuvers like this one, that keep me from driving on the interstate very much at all any more! I always choose surface streets if I can, to avoid the interstate insanity.Which isn't the worst thing, unless the merger has actually run out of on-ramp, floors it, blows past you while driving entirely on the shoulder, swerves in front of you and, without missing a beat, swerves into the next lane over left, cutting between two other cars that only had about a car length between them as it is. You were driving the speed limit (65 MPH).
Had the same happen on on-ramp to major highway. At 6:30AM guy was driving care and looking at phone as he crept ever-so-slowly up the ramp and onto highway.Still people who step in front of me and stay in 1st gear. It's like the highway people, step lively, people have places to go. And faces out of your phones! People walking down a busy, or not!, sidewalk, often abreast with others, face in phone, slow motion walking! Pull over already.
I remember, in high school, when my English teacher said, "Don't say 'I think ...' It makes your statement weaker." She gave an example:
I think Everett Dirksen is a great senator.
vs.
Everett Dirksen is a great senator.
So, not really a peeve, but I'm surprised at how many politicians and others still say "I think ...," not realizing how much it weakens their argument.
I sometimes write "I think ..." but only when trying to be polite (e.g. when critiquing someone's writing).