I have written from time to time about driving the casual carpool. This happened yesterday.
I had a full car, and was on the carpool only on-ramp. A few car lengths ahead I saw someone stop, and try to force themselves into the left hand (the on-ramp has two lanes, that merge at the very top) lane. It held up traffic for a bit, until the driver managed to stick his nose between two cars, and make everyone wait until the lane change was accomplished.
There is no good reason to be changing lanes there, they are going to merge soon anyway. Except, it was a solo driver on the carpool on-ramp, and a highway patrolman was parked near the top of the ramp. The driver was trying to make it more difficult to be seen.
Shortly after, the highway patrolman was walking between the lanes of traffic. This was not a dangerous maneuver, the traffic was stop and go. He signaled to the right hand lane to stop, creating a gap. He pointed to the solo driver, signaling for him to turn into the hole created by the stopped traffic, and pull over.
We passed the car as the patrolman was at the car window, explaining to the driver the error of his ways. We all cheered as we drove by.
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