Tuesday, May 11, 2010  Fred: Traffic Nazi  Headed to San
Francisco again Sunday. The drive, as would be expected, brought
out the traffic nazi in me. I've been trying to come up with a
proposal for a new traffic law but not sure what to name it or
just how it would be enforced. I guess I could call it the
Asshole Merging Law.  It's been discussed either here or on
Eric's blog before: One traffic lane comes to and end but a lot
of drivers stay in the closing lane and run up to the lane
closure, hoping to slip in and cut in front of everyone else.
You see it all time on northbound 101 in Willits, where the two
lane turns into a one lane- the right lane being the one that
ends. People stay in the right lane and race up to the front of
the line figuring someone will let them slip in front of them.
Having experienced this yet again in the Santa Rosa area on
Sunday, I decided it's time to make some of you assholes pay for
such rude behavior. And, yes, I say you assholes because so many
people seem to do it, I'm s