How often you are in this kind of situation ?

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  1. Dale thompson

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    Yup a whole lot of horn blowing in that video.
     
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    I use my horn 4-6 times daily with stupid people but they can’t hear it. On a Cascadia I swear it’s louder in the cab than outside. For me it’s really hard to be the professional in these scenarios
     
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    Exactly. It all started when the OP laid on the horn because the suv slowed a little to allow traffic to merge. Then the suv slowed a lot. Then OP laid on the horn some more, and they slowed down some more. Then OP jumped lanes, and they stayed in front of OP and slowed even more.

    Moral of the : If you want to be impatient and act like a jack@$$, there will be a bigger jack@$$ than you could ever dream of being that will go out of their way to hold you up even more and there isn't a darn thing you can do about it.

    Next time, OP needs to get his head out of his rear end and drive like the professional he's supposed to be. When a 4-wheeler is actually paying attention to what's going on around them and driving with a little courtesy towards others, they shouldn't be rewarded with a long blast from your air horn. OP was in too big of a hurry to slow down a little...and now he got slowed down a lot...and the chances of being involved in a wreck during his little road-rage back-and-forth was exponentially higher than if he'd just backed out of it and kept his cool from the start. They weren't too concerned...they had his truck blocking traffic quickly approaching these two knuckleheads from the rear...and if someone had slammed into the back of the truck, that suv would've been long gone.