So this morning I was coming into work and was merging onto the #2 from the Yankee Valley BLVD entrance. It is one of those merge lane that is probably 1/2 km long and you have plenty of time to get up to highway speed (110KPH).
I am the last car in a line of about 5 or 6 cars. The guy in front of me in his pick up is only doing about 90kph and is not speeding up and there is nobody on the Deerfoot itself beside us, but looking over my shoulder there is a huge cluster of vehicles coming up the highway in all the lanes and nobody is moving into the middle lane to make room. If I was to continue following behind the guy doing 90, the traffic coming from behind on the highway would have more than caught up by the end of the lane and would have created a mess merging, so I decided to floor it and pull out onto the Deerfoot before the huge cluster of traffic boxes in the lane and I proceed into the middle lane.
I was a long way from tailgating Mr. 90km nor did I cut in front of anyone on the highway even remotely close, but as I look over, buddy in the pick up who I was behind in the merge lane is losing his mind and looks like he is pulling his hair out and shoots me the finger while mouthing what I can only assume was a string of curses.
At first I just shrugged and thought it was pretty funny, but then I started thinking about it and I am now wondering, was I an asshole by doing this and deserved the scolding? It seemed like a safer move to me, and I did not cut anyone off nor was I tailgating the guy by a long shot. Did I break some kind of merging etiquette and now need to flog myself or was this guy simply getting bent out of shape over nothing?
Just wondering how fellow Beyonders feel about this type of scenario...