chris's corner

Pet Peeve, Take Eleventy One

One of my extremely biggest pet peeves is people that like to drive to the front of a really long line of cars and then want to get into the lane. Fuckers! there's a lineup for a reason! Wait like the rest of us! If you try to nudge your nose in in front of me, I WILL smash it off. I have no patience or sympathy or what-have-you for people that do this. The spot that pisses me off the most is at the intersection of Regent and Prospect: when leaving Prospect to continue on the Vanier Highway, there are two lanes of traffic. The left-hand lane is the lane that continues to the highway, the right hand lane is for turning off to get on the #2 and continue to Edmundston. It is signed as such. Yet every fucking time I'm sitting at this intersection in the left-hand lane to go to work or go to visit family in Saint John, there's a line of fuckers in the right-hand lane that will do their best to speed ahead and get in front of the long line. So when I was at the front of the line this morning in the left-hand lane you can be damned sure that when a fucknut in a silver Jeep Liberty comes barrelling down the right-hand lane wanting to get in front of me, I slammed the accelerator to the floor and made sure he didn't get by me. Most of the people that do this stunt end up taking the Kimble Road exit (which this fucknut did), causing a hassle for those of us continuing on.

The second worst spot for this has now been eliminated, but it was on the Vanier Highway as well just before the Doak Road exit. The designers of the new #2/#7 highway designed a four lane divided highway to flow through the Vanier Industrial Park and end at Regent Street. There was an intersection with lights at Doak Road that cut across the old highway. When the new highway was built, this intersection was eliminated and the plan was to require access to Doak Road from Alison Blvd. But enough people put up a fuss that there was going to be no highway access to get to the Doak Road (and therefore the Co-Op) so they had to implement a last-minute design change that reduced the southbound section of #2/#7 to one lane with the other lane being an exit to Doak Road. Fucknuts would always stay in the right-hand lane until it ended just before the Doak Road exit and then weasel their way into the flow of traffic in the left-hand lane. Another spot where I would refuse to let cars in front of me if I could avoid it. There were signs posted plenty in advance to inform drivers that the lane was ending - there's no need to continue on past where the white dividing line ends and cut into traffic. Thankfully a new ramp was built to get on the Doak Road and southbound traffic now has two lanes all the way through.

Now if they'd only join up the Hodgson Road with the Doak Road life would be so much easier...

posted by christopher at 1:36 PM