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Merging is a two-way street.. there's a joke in there somewhere....??
Anyway, it's sometimes hard to "merge" when people don't want to let you in. I have seen people speed up near on-ramps just to make sure no one gets in front of them. The "competition" can be fierce out there.
Ask anyone who has driven the Parkway in or out of Pgh. Pa. - it's more like a NASCAR race than a highway.
Almost thirty years ago I was visiting relatives in Miami and saw that for the first time. I learned not to use signals and to sneak looks into other lanes so the other guy couldn't tell I was going to change lanes. Otherwise they'd cut me off and gladly run me into a bridge abutment. Seems like it has only become more common in the intervening years. One of the things I like about the BA is that it has enough grunt to pull ahead of them anyway 
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.
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