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On my commute home the other day things were going well, but every day
there's a line up on the ramp from 161 to I-35. It's typical and I'm used to
it, as it's the only slow period of my drive, but as it's a two lane ramp
usually people stay in the left lane waiting to get onto the freeway, but
there's always a few number of folks who can't stand the idea of waiting around
for people to press on their accelerators and fly down the right lane to cut in
at the front. This annoys some, and usually you'll find someone from the left
lane decides to straddle the lane marker in a futile attempt to block others.
This usually just makes the right laners swerve to the shoulder to get around
them, give a honk and/or the finger, and continue their progress.
This day was different.
After seeing a half a dozen cars speed by me to cut their way up to the
front of the line, the driver in front of me decided he had enough. He pulled
into the right lane, got up alongside me, and matched my speed, which was stop
and go. Cars started to file in behind him, and he maintained his defiance
against those who thought they were entitled to be in front of him, even when
they expressed their displeasure by honking at him repeatedly.
As my wife repeatedly tells me, it's never a good idea to piss off Texas
drivers, and you never know whose packing. Well I guess this can be said for
any region, but stereotypically it's a safe assumption that if they're a native
Texan, chances are high they're packing. This man though, risked life and limb
to prove a point, that no one is getting past his awesomeness and they shall
not reach home before him. Godspeed blocking traffic guy, Godspeed.
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block
traffic." - Dan Rather
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