And again with the bad drivers...

I always have so much more to add to this list of stupid driving mistakes when I come home from school or return to school. It's strange how the longer I'm on the road, the more of these instances that pop up. Hmmm. Drivers on I-70 both East and West tend to lose control of their brains for the time they are on this particular stretch of highway. I wonder if there are some toxic fumes emanating from the pavement. Someone should study this.
Anyway, I suppose I'll get to the point. Maybe it's just because I know the road so well, or maybe it's because I actually read the signs as I pass them. Regardless, it is quite clear that others do not. If the giant yellow sign says, "Left lane ends 1 Mile". Guess what? The lane ENDS in a mile. Trying to pass every single car you possibly can in the next mile is probably the stupidest thing you can do. Why? Because what tends to happen here is people drive all the way to the point where there's arrows painted on the pavement with the word MERGE painted in front of them (ignoring all 6 previous signs, mind you) and then there's 15 cars jam packed in that area with no room to let the poor little merger over. What do these poor little illiterate mergers do? Flip on a turn signal (occasionally) and swerve there car over the very second they have the slightest bit of space to do so. Why is this bad you ask? (Hopefully, you're not actually asking that.) Because, you see, the drivers in that lane that the mergers so desperately want in can't read the mergers' minds. No matter how helpful that would be. And vice-versa. The mergers don't know what the cars in that lane are planning to do. What if they've decided to speed up? The merger gets rear-ended, completely deservedly, and the traffic is backed up for miles because of one idiot. Please, don't be that idiot.
And then, also avoid being the idiot who drives 35 on the entrance ramp. You're going to kill someone. People on the highway, 90 percent of them anyway, drive 65mph or over. So, doing half of that, you're going to get yourself killed. And for the love of anything and everything, do NOT stop a the end of an entrance ramp. You will never get out. and neither will anyone behind you. And they will be cussing and honking and throwing their arms around in their vehicles. This is not how you merge onto the highway. I know it's scary but if you're too afraid to drive then DON'T.