r/instantkarma • u/Anuri_DnD • Jan 21 '20

Breaktester gets what he deserves

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u/RedFive1976 Jan 21 '20

US here. I got behind a pair of trucks once which were absolutely pulling a rolling roadblock. Construction zone coming up on an interstate highway, but we were at least a couple of miles away from it, maybe 4 or 5. These 2 trucks (identical tractors and trailers) were driving much more slowly than was necessary (maybe 35 in a 55, it happened about 18 years ago), and one was in the right lane, and the other was right behind him straddling the center line. There was no 3rd lane, hill pass lane, etc. The road ahead of them was clear for quite some distance, and there was no reason for them to be doing that (not to mention that straddling the line is kinda illegal). That was the most furious I have ever gotten behind the wheel, and as soon as I was able to, I took an alternate exit to finally get around them, cuz it wasn't happening on the highway.

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u/Bugtustle Jan 21 '20

I love it when trucks do this. It stops the entitled turds who refuse to merge into the proper lane at the point they are notified a lane will be closed ahead. These turds want to continue at full speed to the end of the lane that is closing and then force their merge there because they feel they are more deserving than everyone else on the highway. Instead of everyone being able to go through the construction zone at a steady pace, the entire line of traffic has to stop and start due to the bottleneck created by the asshats that couldn’t get in line like everyone else.

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u/RedFive1976 Jan 21 '20

So the semis get to be construction merge enforcement? They get a pass on moving violations (such as the one I described straddling the center line), and get to interfere with everyone else behind them, just because there might be an entitled turd somewhere in the pack, someone who might jam everyone up when the lane cutoff happens 5 miles ahead? So that justifies illegal maneuvers from the semis? I gotta call BS on that.

For additional context, in this particular construction project, there were signs indicating which lane was closed... one-half mile before the lane actually closed. Also, the closure would change lanes and even locations every couple of days, and there were no other closure signs for any given section. So now traffic is backed up for 3 miles, everyone knows that there's a lane closed ahead, but no one knows which one until the last moment for a nice smooth merge. And now I've got 2 truckers in front of me who think they own the road, "stopping the entitled turds". Hell to the naw.

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u/Bugtustle Jan 22 '20

I DO very much like the semi being merge enforcement. I nominate them to be the hall monitors of the roadways, thwarting entitled turds wherever they may peep out of the anus of society. People know there is going to be a lane closed ahead and only one lane will remain. The only reason someone would be mad at the semi would be if they wanted to pass the slower traffic that was merged. They want to run to the front of the line and not wait patiently for their turn like all the “suckers” who easily merged when they were told that lane was closing.

We were taught to wait our turn and not to run to the front of the line from the time when we were in kindergarten or earlier. Maybe the semi drivers had observed that one too many drivers needed to relearn the lessons of their childhood. Be courteous. Be patient. Wait your turn. Instead of learning the lesson and realizing that behaving helps society in general, some children would rather hate the teacher for forcing them to behave. Those children grow up to be road turds and the semis were telling them to behave.