The Zipper Merge: Learn it, know it, LIVE IT!
https://www.portlandmercury.com/BlogtownPDX/archives/2013/09/11/im-wm-steven-humphrey-and-im-a-zipper-merger-hi-steve

Using big words to describe complex concepts you understand neither in theory or reality just makes you sound deranged. Tying these complex concepts to the zipper merge? Tells the world you are just bat shit insane.

Listen I get the "It's Oregon, we're passive-aggressive" thing. But it doesn't have to extend to driving. Nobody's telling you to be a hyperaggressive jerk, drive up people's asses and cut them off. However, when you go the speed limit in the far left lane and refuse to use the zipper merge, you don't make it easy to be nice.