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I have this in my area, which was weird coming from actual big cities with way more dense traffic.

It's like the courtesy from the shared misery of, "We're all in this shit together" never got a chance. Instead people here seemingly never evolved beyond the "If I tailgate this one car, the 100 in front will disappear" phase.

When you're overtaking someone going slow, but they speed up next to you, so you're stuck now and will miss the exit. Just pretend they were probably lonely and just needed someone next to them for a while.

it's a turn SIGNAL not a turn REQUEST

from my experience driving in and out of chicago i learned quickly that you have to MAKE them let you in. as someone who grew up on a gravel road it was an interesting experience the first couple times lol

Let you switch lanes?

As they say in Rome, carpe viam. Don't ask for permission, just start moving your car towards the other fuckers. They'll move if they prefer not to have scratches on their car.

Oh also you're gonna wanna drive a shitbox in case they decide to tank those scratches.

I went into a clothing store in the 90s and heard this song playing. I never heard it on the radio before or after that one day (I think it was in a fashion bug?), but it was memorable enough to stick in my head for the rest of that day and I seem to randomly remember it approximately once every decade.

Your post did it this decade.

A lot of interesting takes!

I'll add another... If this is you, keep right.

If it helps, lane changing is one of the main reasons for congestion so if you're only making a short trip (e.g. same city) you might as well keep right-ish.

In heavy traffic it's usually not even much slower, and sometimes even faster, so I often stay in the right two lanes if I'm just going downtown or something. I usually also help with the flow of traffic by letting people in and out for the three or four exits I'm passing, since I try not to tailgate.

No way they'll let you turn off in Cleveland either. Be assertive or keep going, buddy.

You don't wait people to let you switch lane, you make them let you switch.
As we say from where I am "clignotants, coup de volant" ! ("Turn signal, turn the steering wheel" not sure about the translation :'))
Of course it works better if you drive an old car. :D

There's nothing wrong with packing a bag with 2 pairs of jeans, 4 shirts, and taking the first available flight out of town. (Am so close to trying this, except from my local airport, it will probably go from Nowhere, to Slightly-Bigger-Nowhere)

This post is calling me out and I don't like it!! haha

I like to imagine we'd all be happier and better people if city infrastructure wasn't designed around trying to get cars from A to B instead of people.

So you switched to a place where you don't need to own a car and can simply walk or use public transport anywhere you want?

Move to New Orleans, nobody lets you in here. You gotta just merge and hope they aren't texting.

You have a blinker, a gas pedal, a brake pedal, and a rolling 2-ton block of steel and plastic. If you can’t get over, that’s on you.

I get it. I live in Austin, the tailgating Capitol of the world. Turns out, people want you to run into them as much as you want to run into them. That is, not at all. Grow a pair and show those assholes that they need to be leaving more space in front of them, even at slower speeds.