I don’t know why I sometimes feel the need to teach people a lesson on the road, but I do it ALL the time. It’s a horrible habit. On my way home from work on Friday I was sitting at a busy light (for those in Austin, 5th and Lamar going South), two lanes of traffic each direction and I’m about 5 cars back from the light. There’s a big SUV next to me, but he should be pulled way up - he’s only second in line. The light changes, off we go, but he holds back and stays next to me, even when my lane slows to a crawl, he could go just fine, but he slows down next to me, holding up the entire lane of traffic behind him. It finally occurs to me that he probably wants to get over into my lane, but has made NO indication - no signal, no hand gesture, no eye contact - he’s just sitting there chatting away on his phone looking off in another direction. My lane is still crawling along, and he starts to merge INTO me. Are you kidding? No way, buddy! After about 15 seconds, he puts on his signal, I slow and let him in. Was that so hard?!

That’s what I mean though… it wasn’t until after I let him in that I realized I eventually knew what he wanted, but I needed him to ASK for it. Who am I?! I’m thinking that sense of superiority (albeit brief) is just as bad. Jef says I should remember this when I do something stupid on the road. My memory always seems to fail me in those moments though. It’s weird….