[bcubed72]

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1. Empty highway. You're merging onto the road and some MF'er refuses to get over one lane to ease things...you either have to speed up or slow down to get on...totally needless.

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Please die. The onus of adjustment is on the car that is merging, 100% of the time. Degree of freeway traffic is completely irrelevant. People who are entering a freeway and expect the existing traffic to adjust for them should be banned from ever driving.

Edit: If it's easy enough, I will move over to accomodate the merger, but that's more for my own benefit, and I am far from obligated to do so.

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I think you missed the point: in none of the three examples I gave is the driver OBLIGATED to do anything; it's common courtesy. Kinda like holding a door for someone with three bags of groceries: a minor inconvenience for me avoids a moderate inconvienience for someone else. When someone refuses to switch lanes to ease the process, they're saying either, "The convienience of another person is insufficiently important for me to alter my behavior a trivial amount," or "I'm too clueless to realize that my behavior has any impact on those around me."

Another pet peeve: people who can't grasp the concept that "yield sign" =/= "stop sign."