We were both driving on the five heading south on Monday morning. The lanes merge from three to two right under Broadway and I was getting over with plenty of time left before the end of my lane. You preceded to speed up and honk your horn. Out of frustration, I sped up and tried again. This is when you passed me and said “merge sooner dude” and I gave you the finger. I am not one to do that and I am saying that I am sorry. I acted out with immature emotions and do not mean to affect your day in any way. However, The highways and roads are planned out in such a way to minimize traffic by having the lanes merge where they do. If everyone merged into a single lane well before the merge point, traffic would be worse. I was driving appropriately and you were being unsafe by not letting me over. I’m still sorry for acting the way I did.

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  3. Anonymous isn’t from Oregon. You know how I know? NO native Oregonian would call I-5 “the” five. That’s a California thing all the way.

  4. I think that particular parking lot is more of a triple-zipper with a half-corkscrew serpentine spaghetti slider but I’m no traffic engineer.

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