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Brent P - 07 Mar 2008 00:28 GMT

Typical intersection... 2 lanes going straight. I'm in the right one.
Some distance after the intersection the right lane becomes a right turn
only and then ends. Minivan and SUV in front of me. long line in the
left lane. Light turns green. First few vehicles in left lane take off
good. Minivan sloths. Guy next to me in left lane just sits on his hands.
When I get to the other side of the intersection I change lanes to the
left and begin passing the SUV. I am side by side with the SUV when the
minivan driver moves left... so I just keep driving normally...

SUV starts falling back behind me... then as the lane nears the turn
only, the driver accelerates to move over in my following distance. Still
a huge gap behind me. I don't nail the brakes to let her in as she starts
moving over without a signal. She then flips me off.

Usually these people use a signal. This one expected mind reading. (well,
ok I gave it 80/20 she was going to MFFY, but I wasn't in the mood to JLEDI.

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MLOM - 07 Mar 2008 02:43 GMT

> Typical intersection... 2 lanes going straight. I'm in the right one.
> Some distance after the intersection the right lane becomes a right turn
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> Usually these people use a signal. This one expected mind reading. (well,
> ok I gave it 80/20 she was going to MFFY, but I wasn't in the mood to JLEDI.

Hm, Brent, that doesn't sound that new to me. It's standard jockeying-
for-position in Kansas City, and I would have figured that to also be
the case in Chicago.

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Brent P - 07 Mar 2008 02:56 GMT

>> Typical intersection... 2 lanes going straight. I'm in the right one.
>> Some distance after the intersection the right lane becomes a right turn
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> for-position in Kansas City, and I would have figured that to also be
> the case in Chicago.

But how many feel entitled to the spot and then flip you off when you
don't give it to them?

Yeah the jockeying happens all the time... but usually the ones with a
sense of entitlement that someone else should brake for them use a turn
signal before flipping off whomever didn't let them in. This one didn't.
It's a new low.

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MLOM - 07 Mar 2008 03:11 GMT

> In article <47cb4438-21ea-48a0-b121-035c4bd41...@8g2000hse.googlegroups.com>, MLOM wrote:
> >> Typical intersection... 2 lanes going straight. I'm in the right one.
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> - Show quoted text -

Even worse: several years ago I was going down US 24 in Independence
in the right lane (an undivided 4-lane) at roughly 40 in a 35, with no
other traffic around. Some punk passed me, mashed the F out of his
brakes, and then flipped me off. That's one reason why the incident
you mentioned didn't surprise me in the least.

My driving conspiracy theory is that the ones who complain the most
about the lack of signal use are the ones who speed up on the same
side as the signal to pass.

The lack of a signal prior to the flip raises the bar of MFFY-ness.

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Scott in SoCal - 07 Mar 2008 04:54 GMT

>> Hm, Brent, that doesn't sound that new to me. It's standard jockeying-
>> for-position in Kansas City, and I would have figured that to also be
>> the case in Chicago.
>
>But how many feel entitled to the spot and then flip you off when you
>don't give it to them?

Another basic tenet of MFFYdom.

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