That means you fucktard. It doesn’t matter that you want to get onto the highway-you have a yield. Cars already on the highway going the speed limit of 100km are not and should not slow down to let you in AND they are not obligated to change lanes so that you can. If you can’t safely enter traffic then guess what, you have to stop and wait, that’s right even though it’s a yield you might have to stop. Don’t make that mine or anyone else’s problem cause it isn’t-it’s yours. Do I care that you might side swipe my car – not really, since I have insurance and you would be at fault. Do I care you have an erection problem with your middle finger – no I don’t. It makes me laugh at how stupid you are with your arms all a flying about and your mouth all distorted. Guess what fucktard – I can’t hear you. Someone’s going to let you have it one day and my guess is it will be soon. Now get a driver’s handbook and look up the part about yielding. It’s the triangle sign you see as you are entering from an on/off ramp -fucktard. —Going 100km So Wait Your Turn
This article appears in Aug 11-17, 2011.
I was always taught that if you CAN move over, then you SHOULD. But hey, maybe I’m just really nice. Some people do need a lesson in merging though. I don’t know how many time I cringe when people who can merge safely get spooked, slam on the brakes, without consideration to the person behind them. Ugh.
Yeah I was taught that too ralmn. It’s not just yielding OP, they’re supposed to be merging into 100km/h traffic. And you’re supposed to avoid stopping in a merge lane (unless traffic is heavy and you have to) because it’s not safe.
Sounds like two drivers with anger issues, both needing to be first in line and both needing to brush up on driving etiquette.
It is actually stated in the drivers handbook for the province of Nova Scotia that if you are on the highway and you can move to the left lane when there is someone merging, you are expected to do this. Of course, if there is someone in the passing lane you can’t – but if you can safely do so, you do need to do it.
Besides, people who don’t move over so people can merge in are just plain ignorant of traffic courtesy and shouldn’t be complaining in the first place because they’re being douches.
OP, totally correct. Those idiots don’t have a clue. Best is near Dartmouth Crossing and Mic Mac Mall. I never yield to vehicles in the on-ramp that are trying to merge when I have the right of way.
You are just another selfish driver, only worried about yourself. You are an asshole and that is what the driver this morning was telling you. Common decency states that you move over and allow other drivers to merge. You expect them to stop in the on ramp of the highway? You obviously haven’t thought this through. NO, you haven’t thought of anything or anyone but yourself. You are a piece of shit OP.
Sebastion, sorry to give you any attention at all, but you have to be the loneliest jackoff this town has. I have read with awe the crap you spew for a couple of years. Complete nonsense. Why don’t you go the way of Life Sucks and piss off.
I completely agree with all comments (except for Seb-Moron). If you are so entitled that you cannot move over, if able, then you are no better (actually worse) then the entitled driver trying to merge
I 95% agree with you OB. If I can move over into the left lane to allow someone to merge safely I will, but if I can’t, tough shit. If you keep coming you better be able to pass me on the right or you will end up in the ditch. If anyone thinks I’m an asshole for doing this, you can blow me. The law is on my side, and if you retards persist on trying to merge at 70km/h you are going to learn a valuable life lesson. To add to this one can only merge safely when driving the posted speed limit before entering the highway, not doing 70 and changing the tunes on you radio.
If I have the right-of-way, I tend to move into the left lane (if I can) just as a defensive manouever in case the merger jumps in front of me.
If I’m merging, as long as I am are going, say 70 kmh,I can usually slide in somewhere.
This is not the first time this one’s been posted.
Even if it isn’t in the handbook, why wouldn’t you move over if you safely can? I’ll tell you why: You’re an entitled, self absorbed, unhappy asswipe.
Now, me – I only discriminate by vehicle type. I don’t let in big obnxious SUVS or any other overtly Look How Rich (or stupid) I Am vehicles. Y’all can wait.
… ok Snubiz I’ll answer by quoting BRoc
” If you are so entitled that you cannot move over, if able, then you are no better (actually worse) than the entitled driver trying to merge”
There.
That comment about the rich ppl … ooooooh you bittterrrr.
The return of common courtesy is all I ask!
Not bitter. I’ve just never understood the need for such extravagance for 1 or 2 people to get from point A to point B! The only reason I can think of is the need to draw attention to one’s self.
I don’t understand it either, but … as it is the free Western world it is their right to blah blah blah etc. and stuff, *rolls eyes*
I get ya, and feel the same way but I’ve just stopped caring. I do like nice cars though … it’s those monster trucks I’m not too hot on.
Lolzzz
By not moving over when you can shows that the OB is a bigger dickhead than the person trying to merge.
There’s no law or etiquette or rule or moral stating people are to move into the next lane for merging vehicles to come in. I refuse to do it when I have the right of way and it’s wrong for merging drivers to have that expectation.
It’s not taught in driver’s ed courses so I don’t know where people come up with this belief or idea that people are to move over just because another vehicle is merging. Yield means you sit and wait for those with the right-of-way to get passed you.
I was told by some guy who had a yield sign that because he was older then me and i was younger that i should have stopped and let him in even though I would have had to stop the traffic behind me and he had the Yield sign. Its people like this who are ignorant and have driving issues. Driving rules have changed so much over the years and older drivers can’t take the fact that younger drivers now a days are better at driving then they are.
Younger drivers aren’t better than older drivers. I’ll put my driving skills and record up against a new driver any hour of the day, any day of the week.
People of all ages have stupid beliefs about road rules. When I was 16 I heard from a friend that some idiot she dated thought that you couldn’t pass cars on an overpass only when you were near the “No Passing” signs. This idiot would be about 19 then which is still pretty young. And, yes, this was a wide overpass but only one lane on each side of the median.
the same thing happened to me yesterday,comig out of yarmouth. guy cut me off, but i kept on going nice little sandwich, his car and guardrail. me driving a fucking honking big hummer of a friend’s.
there was hardly a mark on it. buddy gets out of whats left of shitbox, yelling and swearing at me, i clocked him in mouth, just as cops were coming on scene. smiled at him and told him he was lucky, that they came whn they did. he got charged, and his insurance has to pay for damages. 1100 bucks for some scraped paint and a quarter sized dent. glad it wasn’t mine. buddy just got it last month too. a shame really.
Yesterday … I don’t believe it!
Wilson, we must investigate!
if not for you, why don’t you lick me, hard.
Good to have you back Lord Suckulous.
One of my biggest pet peeves?
Idiots that stop at yield signs unnecessarily. Your actions, OB, are completely facilitating this douchebaggery.
Not only is it common courtesy to give space to other drivers when you can, it’s a safety issue. If the car attempting to merge (especially on a hwy) has done their bit – adjusted their speed to merge successfully – then please explain to me why you feel the need to be a self-centred asshole and exactly HOW it’s a good idea to encourage vehicles to STOP at a yield sign, possibly causing a dangerous situation to other vehicles behind.
Because that’s what you’re doing, dickwad, when you’re too selfish and/or lazy to make some space and do your bit to facilitate the safe flow of traffic.
Nah
thank you ivan,but tis to be very short lived. i just had to butt in a bit, tata gang, off to dreamland, got a lot of cable to run in a.m. p.s., i hate this fucking laptop, that i’m using, but not mine,so…….
“common courtesy” is hard to find Kelifax, it really is.
I don’t know if these merging people all drive rockets becasue they MUST be able to go from 0-100 km/h in 1 sec flat to get onto the highway from the stopped position at the yield sign on a moderately busy highway … right …
You’re right, Donk – there’s clearly not a whole lot of common courtesy happening around here!
Yeah, it can be really dangerous to come to a complete stop at a yield sign on the on-ramp to a hwy, then try and get up to a good speed to merge in like, 1 sec.
That’s why I try and keep my eyes open, adjust my speed, etc so that I can avoid stopping on the on-ramp…..doesn’t always happen, some on-ramps are worse than others, but I try.
Idiots like OB make it more difficult to avoid stopping at a yield sign, so in turn his/her inconsideration and self-absorption makes it more dangerous for other drivers.
There is a difference between, yield & merge. You know that, right?
Yield – means that the person with the yield sign, YIELDS the right of way.
Merge – the car that gets to the solid line first, has the right of way.
Too difficult of a concept? Probably.
The worst is the top of the Sackville exit, 102, Bedford clover-leaf. 90% of the drivers ignore the yield sign, and fuck anyone who’s tring to get onto the 102.
to put this to rest….
http://www.gov.ns.ca/snsmr/rmv/handbook/DH…
USING CONTROLLED ACCESS HIGHWAYS
it says to use extreme caution, OBEY the SIGNS, and use the left lane for passing ONLY.
no requirement and by letter of the law, unless they cut you off when getting on the highway, you shouldn’t switch lanes.
I still do.. but I suppose we shouldn’t
… … “Too difficult of a concept? Probably”
I’m just going to ignore that becasue I enjoy you.
… I wouldn’t just drive straight onto the highway from the ramp … no. I would look … yield if someone is coming etc etc. Of course there are times when one must stop. However, just because you have the right of way doesn’t mean you’re the only one on the road, and of course if there were an accident you’d “win”. I drive a friggin’ Hybrid and going from Off to 100kmph takes me FOREVER. So, it’s always appreciated when someone moves over IF they can. The attitude of “well I have the right of way, wait your damn turn” is rather unfortunate.
Do I expect it? No. Is it nice when it happens? Yes, yes it is.
Sorry Donk, that wasn’t aimed at you or anybody in particular, just a general statement.
At a merge, I’ve had people slam on their brakes (even though they had the right of way), because they were in the right hand lane. And I’ve seen accidents where people fail to yeild the right of way because they ‘had their blinker on’.
Well rest assured I’m not that dense 😉
I’m backing zZz on all of what he said. Common courtesy when in a vehicle is fine in a parking lot but not on the highway. Stupid neo-hippies that only think inward and think pot is lame.
… oh … whatever
That’s right, Car-hippian Queen!
… you see my FB … do I looooooook like a hippie? … LOL
Not a hippie but I would sing Billy Ocean tunes with you.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh I get it! lulzzz
U funny fatz.
If you can imagine a highway where both highways lanes are full and the merging lane is full as well, then it isnt that difficult to understand what each driver has a responsibility to do.
The right lane does not have to yeild or move over, but it definitely should slow down and adjust their spacing to allow the merging traffic room to safely enter the lane.
The merging traffic should not have to come to a complete stop, as this creates too large of a speed differential between the 2 traffic flows.
“When entering the highway use acceleration lanes to increase speed when merging into through traffic. The driver on the road should be prepared to change to the left lane if it is safe to do so or slow down to allow traffic to enter the highway.”
-NS Department of Transportation Driver’s Handbook