In heavy traffic, are you the type of driver who zooms past everyone in the breakdown lane?  If you are, I’d really like you to comment here, and tell me what goes through your mind as you pull out onto the shoulder.  Do you think to yourself, “I’m better than everyone else here, why should I have to wait?”  Or maybe, “Look at these stupid schmucks!  There’s all this extra room right here, but no one is using it?”

Just so you know, I’m the type of driver who pulls his car out onto the shoulder, in order to block the arrogant a-holes like you.  I take great pleasure in policing society so that everyone gets a fair shake. 

I see you in my rearview mirror, shaking your head, muttering to yourself, feeling a little embarrassed as the other drivers smile at me and give you dirty looks.  You know you broke the social code, and now you’re being publicly ridiculed for it. 

I would feel terrible if I found myself in that position.  But you don’t seem to mind.  You give me the finger and smile, just to show that you don’t care.  Really?  Perhaps when you’re falling asleep at night, you remember how much of an A-hole you are and you cry yourself to sleep?  I REALLY want to know how you justify your actions….please comment here.

There are 2 places where I’ve done this recently: 1) while waiting in traffic to cross the bridge into Cape Cod, and 2) while waiting in traffic to enter the Holland Tunnel from New Jersey.  Anyone know of any other locations where wide breakdown lanes tempt otherwise normal people to screw their fellow citizens?