-or- do they just not think?
There it is. Looming up ahead. Huge, impending, green. With a little yellow brother sitting there.
Exit Only.
Arrows accompany the signs, clearly pointing out which way the exit is. Lines on the road tell you clearly which lane they are in. Everything is set up to clearly let the driver know that their lane will soon leave the freeway. They are given at least a half of a mile warning. And unless they are completely blind, they can usually see the lane veering off of the freeway.
Yet they still insist on being idiots.
Driving home today, an old boat is over in the far left lane. The fact that they are in an exit only lane is no secret. I know it, the car on the other side of me knows it, and the person driving in that lane has had plenty of time to see it. So why in the world do they feel the need to swerve across two lanes at the very last second? What prevented them from having the presence of mind to actually move out of the far left lane just a few seconds earlier? You know, back when they had enough room to not come within inches of those of us who actually knew what we were doing?
There should be a test. Not just a test of the rules of the road, not just the driving test you take so infrequently. No, there needs to be a test to see if you have enough common sense and presence of mind to actually be allowed to sit behind a deadly weapon, to be allowed on the road. Days like today really inspire misanthropic feelings, and bad, stupid, and just plain incompetent drivers don't help.
Get a brain, morans.