There’s a road near my house that has got me quite puzzled,
The rules about right-of-way leave me bumfuzzled.
I’ve had this thing happen on more than one day.
Am I just a bad driver? Well, what do you say?
I drive in the right lane, which merges with left.
I turn on my signal and then start to drift.
When I look in the left mirror, a car I do see
And though I’m ahead it just zoom around me!
Am in the wrong because my lane doth merge?
Is their passing quite lawful? Or are they just turds?
I’ll sign off and leave you with this little gem:
Is it I with the right of way? Or is it them?
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I’ll be interested to know the answer to this. I drive home on this sort of road every day. And I never know who’s right!!
On the night before our Lord was handed over to suffering and death
could I really say out loud, “they are just turds?”
You could if you were trying to make a rhyme…
I think it is one of those grey areas of traffic…the courteous let you in, the others don’t. I loved the creative rhyming though!
I think both are true. They have the right of way because they are in the lane that you are going into. But not letting you merge does make them turds.
They have the right of way even if I am so far ahead of them in the flow of traffic that I can see them in my rear-view and side mirrors?
That would mean that in order to be lawful, I would have to actually stop my car in the disappearing lane and wait until there are no more cars coming, right?