First, a little background. A large number of people in the state of Alabama are unable to merge properly. Instead of finding a gap and matching speed like any sane, intelligent, or generally not stupid person they pull up right next to you or directly in your blind spot and wonder why they can't move over. Or they try to merge going 10 mph slower or faster than traffic. To further complicate the mess there are a large number of last second mergers that not only slow down traffic but when the try it in peoples blind spot it makes for a very dangerous habit.
Today I was driving to school at around 10 (because I can, and to avoid rush hour). I move over to the right lane about a mile before my exit and as I drive by an on ramp I catch a glimpse of a car in my blind stop. I saw a little yellow and thought it was a cab. I was a little ahead and so give it a little bit of gas. Now mind you it's 10 and traffic is light. I was following a car and so ahead of me there wasn't a lot of space but there was no one behind me for 2/3 a mile. Instead the car next to speeds up just enough to pull up right next to me. Now he's running out of lane and right after that the intersate goes over a short bridge. This guys running out of space. He pull a little bit forward and starts moving over forcing me to slam on my brakes. I was about to honk my horn. Because if you don't tell them they're stupid they'll never learn. Turns out the yellow on the car was the sheriff's logo on the sqaud car of a policeman talking on his cell phone. I thought better of it. Instead I yell and wave my arms and rant and write a blog post about it. I would feel much better if I'd honked my horn.
So this brings me to my survey question. If you get cut off by a cop (no lights or sirens), in one of those hey you idiot learn to drive moments, not one of those please don't hit me moments, do you honk your horn?
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No, take down the squad car number and call the cops (not 911).
And then never speed again, bc you know that he will find you.
I wish they had a how's my driving number on their cars. But I don't think inconsideration counts as a 911 worthy moment
sadly, you never know, they might find something to pull you over for, like, your head lights are too dirty or something. You do live in the South, they can get away with things like that. And Alabama might have a law agains honking at cops not matter what the circumstances.
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