Thank you for being one among the small suite of skills about which I can brag. Fact is I'm o'brimming with on-ramp self righteousness. I'm bursting with left lane boasts. So skilled am I that never another vehicle doth brake when merging with yours truly. So natural a talent am I that all those who have ever had the good fortune to merge with me, have not even noticed my presence. It's as if I AM the freeway. Merge with me and you continue to flow as if you were the only vehicle on the highway.
I do not suffer a merging fool lightly. You would think that the simple act of two cars coming together on a freeway would be exactly that - a simple act. You would assume this simple act was within the basic capabilities of most licensed drivers. Well...NOT so! The fact is, it's merging madness out there!
I watch (because I make it my business to study the art of merging.) I watch from behind and I watch in my rear vision mirror and all I see is a clashing, breaking, hesitating, clumsy stutter of vehicles, all of whom are oblivious to the joy and ease they could be experiencing if only they 'got' merging.
I 'get' merging, and as the Master of merging, Luminary of lane leaping and Ace of assimilation, let me help you with a simple analogy:
Think of any relationship or partnership. The most successful and harmonious are those in which both parties possess a healthy degree of assertiveness mixed with kindness, consideration, respect for and awareness of the other. In this relationship, the two share a common goal; to be cruising on the freeway at a certain speed with minimal interruptions. No one person in the partnership believes they have more right to the space than the other. Both act with assertiveness, kindness, consideration, respect and awareness. Both are prepared to compromise. Both will sometimes lead and sometimes follow. Ultimately they find a way to end up heading in the same direction, in the same lane. Voila! The merge is successful!
Jo
P.S It doesn't hurt to say thank you after a successful merge either.
jojobee
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