3rd
Short venting for my benefit not yours
I’ve been operating motorized vehicles since 1986. I’m turning 40 in a few weeks. There have been a few close calls, minor accidents, and one major one that I was a passenger in. Today I finally experienced something I’d never would’ve thought. I couldn’t merge onto the interstate. There was a perfect combination of timing that gave me no option but to merge right back off the exit ramp, which was the on ramp when I started my attempt. You know those on ramps that double as an off ramp? I’m trying to explain something that is near unexplainable, but basically someone driving a dump truck decided to stay in his lane (the one I needed to merge onto) while a car ahead of me, and another behind all boxed me in an impossible position to join them on the highway. I.E. the dump truck dork allowed just enough room for the cars in front and behind me to enter in front and behind him, while giving me no option.
As I was exiting the highway I never entered, I checked to see if dufus in the dumptruck had another car on his left, thus prohibiting his potential merge to the left to allow my merger. Nope.
From above, like someone with a video camera and a helicopter, I imagine it might have been comical.
