I usually just let them in and forget about it.
I guess I have a ‘different than most attitude’ about driving. If someone is in a hurry or cutting in an out of traffic, I just move away from them or let them go. I hate people to bump into my car and just want them to get away from me. If they crowd me, I back off, move over, and/or let them go. If they almost hit me, I don’t get all upset about it and yell at them or flip them the bird. I’m usually just glad they didn’t hit me and move away from them.
I watched a slo-mo drama unfold in the car line at the school a couple of days ago when dropping a kid off where I violated this rule, though.
There is a big construction project going on at the school and all the cars a rerouted to one entrance into the school lot. Upon entry into the school lot, this single lane is then split into three lanes. These three lanes join up again at the end of the parking lot and are then directed back into single file to go back to the street. Of course, the street is heavily junked up, too, due to traffic lights before and after the school entry and exit, and there are police directing traffic, but there are so many cars it’s just a big mess. It can take 30 minutes to get through this mess, so we usually go early.
So, I was waiting to blend back in to the single file merge after the drop off. The lady in the right lane was attempting to jump ahead by one car space (as if it would make any difference at all). The guy whose turn it was to merge was annoyed and they both of them kept moving up about one or two feet at at time as traffic allowed, jockeying for position.
She rolled down her window to yell at him. He rolled down his window to yell back. She then threw trash at his car a couple of times. He got out and talked to her. She rolled up her window and shot him ‘the bird.’ He got back into his car. She threw more trash.
I was just amused that something interesting was happening for a change- LOL!
Then she started digging around in her passenger seat and pulled out her cell phone. While she was doing that, the line moved a couple of feet, so the guy moved up and took his ‘rightful’ spot. I moved up a little but left her her ‘rightful’ opening.
She then started waving at and talking to me.
I moved up a little and rolled down my window to see what she wanted. She was waving her phone and telling me that she was going to record him. But, while she was yammering about that, the line moved again. I waited a few seconds, but she was still complaining about the guy, so I moved on up and took her spot.
So, she got right on my bumper and turned on her bright lights. And we waited. Then she parked and got out to go complain to the cops at the end of the line, blocking everyone behind her.
Such joy.
