Where’s Carl?
A stretch of interstate with a speed limit of 40, and for good reasons.
Drivers are people of all ages. People mature in other ways, but I have never observed anyone get more patient with age. I am, but I was always that way.
I still call idiots that can’t find the gas pedal idiiots.
Peopke generally are reluctant to change lanes in heavy traffic if they don’t have to.
Time to give this thread its Geritol, and put it back to bed.
People are assholes. Learn it, live it, love it.
ETA: BRAAAAAAIIINNNSSSS
You can’t discount the obvious issue. if you pass a long line of cars in one lane, then want to “merge” into the line, drivers look at you as a “line jumper”, because you are cheating and didn’t get into the back of the line.
It doesn’t matter if this is actually the case, the mental tude is the same. It’s like somebody is cutting in line.
How is anyone defending the other driver??? They were in the wrong. Honking is mainly for alerting other drivers to danger, NOT as a confirmation to let a signaling driver over. You confirm letting someone over by not changing your speed to impede their maneuver, just as you wouldn’t speed up when someone has made it clear they intend to pass you on a 2-lane road…
On a daily basis I have people try to speed up ONLY as soon as my blinker turns on despite my being ahead of them a safe, legal distance to make my lane change. Just as I am not supposed to cut in abruptly to a too-small space and thus make someone slow down or speed up, so too must a vehicle being passed or being in a safe distance behind a vehicle signaling for a safe lane change NOT ALTER THEIR SPEED.
You cannot block other drivers and purposefully be an obstruction. Just because you are in a lane does not give you the right to omit people from it.
Here is a perfect example of the ridiculous people the OP is referring to: I needed to move over for an upcoming street several blocks up. I saw the lane to my right had a vehicle about 3 car lengths back going slow. I signaled, double checked, started to move over, and all of a sudden that car honked… I turned my blinker off, stayed in my previous lane, thinking they would like to speed up- i gave them the opportunity, went through the next intersection, yet the car did not speed up. I put my signal on again after the intersection, double checked the lane, and begin moving over since the car was still 2 car lengths back and not speeding up… She honked AGAIN and this time sped up to my bumper, whipped around me without signaling and started cursing at me with her window down… She just didn’t want anyone in front of her. THAT sounds like the OP. I was mad to say the least.
I encounter people like this weekly, if not daily- there are just a lot of impatient, inconsiderate people that I marvel at how they ever passed a driving test and at how they still have a license.
Actually, what that person said IS true. You MUST wait; regardless of how brief it is, there IS a pause between signalling and moving into a lane- otherwise you are signalling and moving at the same time which is a traffic violation (a signal must be turned on prior to movement in any lateral direction).
I do agree that you might only have very short seconds after signalling to make the lane change before it disappears, but technically there still is a “wait” time to ensure it is still safe to move over after you’ve put the signal on.
I’ve been trying that a lot lately, and even slowing down slightly just to emphasize the point (primarily I do this on stretches where I see that the other driver is about to run out of room for what he clearly intends to do). AND IT HASN’T BEEN WORKING.
So, you got any other suggestions? Until somebody comes up with one, I’ll continue to give 'em a friendly squeeze on the hooter. Umm, that is, give the other DRIVER a friendly squeeze on the hooter, not the people who won’t give me another suggestion.
BTW, welcome to t he SDMB, Netallani! Hope you enjoy the time you spend here; that’s what this place is for! 
Around here the standard signal is to flash your brights.
Yeah, but that scares away the Zombies!
Can’t flash my brights at someone beside me.
We have a couple of freeway off ramps around here that require you getting all the way over into the right-hand lane a quarter to half mile before the exit. Traffic backs up as people get over, then proceed forward at 10 mph to the exit. There’s always some dipstick that doesn’t want to wait, so he races ahead and looks for a spot to cut in, or lacking that, he stops in the #2 lane and signals his desire to cut into line. YOUR SIGNAL ISN’T A RIGHT-OF-WAY creator, it’s a request.
Yikes, I fell for a zombie thread. :eek:
Just point your novelty gun-shaped flashlight out the window and pull the trigger. 
It’s okay that this is a zombie - this subject never dies.
On one road the opposite happens. There is an exit only lane that goes for a while. There is a quite congested slow lane. There are tons of dipshits who zoom along in the exit only lane and then cut into the slow lane. Unfortunately there are tons of dipshits in the slow lane who think that you need 5 car lengths of separation at 10 mph, so this strategy often works. Though I have seen people who did not get let in cut across the island.
I’d think that if these people got forced to exit often enough, their behavior would improve.