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Has anyone checked on Delosmertos? I'm first in the daily thread without even cheating, and now I'm worried.
trk's "wtf, driver?" question of the day:
Why do people speed up and chop lanes when there is obvious banked traffic ahead? It reminds me of those clowns at the Ekka that you put balls and they bounce around in to different chutes and end up winning you a flyswat or a sticky hand or whatever. Drivers act like that ball - randomly bouncing between lanes at the last second before having to mash the brakes and test out the ABS as they come to a standstill in their chute. It's like they are placing their bets on which lane is going to "win" and they want their metaphorical flyswat by coming out the other side one or two car positions further ahead than they would have otherwise been, and bugger anyone else who's had to brake to miss them.
Perhaps it's an esoteric form of gambling.
My wife and I have a virtual Sportsbet account running for the drive home. There's a merge where the Logan Motorway meets the Mount Lindsay Highway and every afternoon you get the clowns jump over the solid whites to get in the left lane, scoot up the merge/exit lanes, and then push back in ~100M further down the queue.
Our bets are placed on how many clowns we will see at the clown show. A clown car is awarded 1 point, a clown truck is worth 2 points, and you get a 2x multiplier per additional unnecessary lane change, and a 4x multiplier if they make the lane change across the painted island on the Browns Plains exit ramp.
You can generally guarantee at least half a dozen clown cars and a clown truck, the final result usually depends heavily on the multipliers.