Thursday, March 20, 2008

Playing chicken with a Ferrari

Yeah... some moron driving slow in a Ferrari... So the location is the overpass ramp from the 405 to the 10 and it goes from one lane to two on the overpass, and merges back to one lane as it gets onto the 10.

So usually, there's one clear lane on the overpass, which bends to the left, to pass everyone that goes slow. A toyota corolla in front of me is going slow and stays in the left lane. So I switch to the right and then there's a Ferrari in front of me but he's going slow too. So I switch back left, after having passed the toyota, and pass the Ferrari 599.

We're catching up to traffic now in the left lane and it's going to start merging soon. I'm at least half a car ahead of the Ferrari, and he's not going faster than me, so I just close up pretty close on the car in front of me so there's no gap. The right lane has to merge into the left so I have right of way, and I'm half a car ahead. He runs out of road and is forced to slow down and pull in behind me. He was honking and gesturing at me like I did something wrong.

Lets see... He's going slower than me, he's in the lane that ends and has to merge, he's behind me, and he expects me to slow down to let him pass me and get into my lane? I think not... My sister was in the car and was completely bewildered by the guy in the Ferrari too. Oh, and too top it off, after we get onto the 10, the guy in the Ferrari gets all the way over to the left lane (4 lanes over) and drives slow.

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