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Michelle Alonzo contributes:

Abe.......here's my story! Write to me too okay?!!! Well, where do I begin! When you really think about it, there is a legitimate reason for weaving in and out of traffic! There are some people out there on the roads that drive so slow, and many of us, have somewhere to go. That's what we're on the roads for!

My story........well. I do this quite often, so let me pick one story! I remember one day when I was in a hurry to get to work because my alarm didn't go off (electricity went off) so I had twenty minutes to get from Wahiawa to Kuakini Med. Ctr. On a Saturday, normally traffic isn't so bad. But once I hit the merge by LikeLike, I was stuck! So, I had no choice but to weave in and out of traffic because there are so many spaces between cars it's unbelievable! I don't understand why people do that. I do believe that they are the main cause of traffic! So, here I am already almost there and this idiot decides to box me in! Well, I naturally went to the next lane.

I think we do it mainly cause the person in front of us drives too slow! That's my conclusion! So, if you don't like people when they change lanes impulsively, drive faster!

Michelle Alonzo
Honolulu, HI
February 28, 1996



Jeana Chen contributes:

I hate to whine about how unjust that accusation was. I don't change lanes impulsively; I change when people drive too slow. Like that time when I needed to get to school, an ancient creature (both driver and car) cut in front of me, and then had the gulls to drive at 15 mph. Now who, in their right minds, would not delay school for a few seconds so that they can change lanes to drive even slower in front of the ancient bug? Although during the lane change, I nearly ran into the cars in the other lane. But these are the risks you have to take...for sweet revenge. I know, I know...next time an ancient bug comes along, I'll take a deep breathe, wish that I was driving a bulldozer, and check my blind spot...before I change lanes.

Jeana Chen
Honolulu, HI
March 7,1996



Robin G. Miller contributes:

I used to commute over the Pali; and, the funny thing about the Pali Highway is that the way people use the lanes is backwards. The middle lane is like the slow lane and the left hand lane is like a passing lane, but the far right hand lane is like the fast, fast lane (unless there is a bus). When I am driving, especially during rush hour times, I'm a chronic lane changer. I move between the far right lane and the far left lane trying to get around the traffic. I feel, although this may be my own dementia, that I really do get home or to work faster doing this.

I guess it's probably not that safe though and it certaintly wouldn't earn me any points towards by creditial as a Traffic Psychologist.

Robin G. Miller
Honolulu, HI
March 7,1996