When Getting on the Freeway SPEED UP!!!
April 3, 2008 6:47 am Random Gripings
Ok, it’s time for another driving griping. I don’t know what it is, but it seems like lately a lot of times when I’m getting on the freeway I get stuck behind someone that feels that they should only go 30 or 50 mph on the on ramp. Are you kidding me?!
This is one of my big pet peeves with driving. Let’s think about it logically: when you’re getting on the freeway, how fast is the freeway going? Well, at least abou 65 or so we would hope. So if I go 40 and try to merge in, is that going to work very well? NO NO NO!!!
In fact, just yesterday this happened and I could see a semi that was coming up the right lane have to slam on his brakes so that he didn’t cream the guy in front of me (and probably me as well).
Please please please, when you are merging onto the freeway use the on ramp as an opportunity to get up to freeway speed! In other words, you should be going about 65 by the time you get to where you should merge.
I know that a lot of us get this, and I also know that this blog post is not going to change anything, but hey; at least I got to gripe about it a little bit 
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Oh I completely agree!! This is one of my pet peeves. People need to learn how to drive. Seriously.
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Oh I feel your pain! I usually have a 4 year old in the car with me and I really have to struggle to not use bad words when I’m driving some days!
He can sense my frustration sometimes though and he’ll say “are they a bad driver momma?”. I just have to laugh and tell him yes they are a bad driver and they need to learn how to drive.
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Nothing worse then old people trying to ram you off the road! Although merging is a close second.
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i would have to agree with. i think these is basic driving. i guess it is really better to drive defensively than aggressively.
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This is even worse when there isn’t a ramp but you end up merging directly into the lane of traffic. I had some guy actually stop in front of me the other day, and the cars behind me on the ramp almost smashed into the back of my car. I say gripe away!
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