There’s Zipper Merge, and then there’s “I’m more important than everyone else, so I’m going to the front of the line and force my way in.”
See, the single file line continues to move if everyone gets over when the sign clearly says “Lane Ends Ahead Merge Now”. It may move slowly, but it moves. If people pass everyone in line and speed ahead to force their way in, the single file lane then has to repeatedly stop to let those people in. The people who followed the road sign and moved over (by zipper merging at the right point) are now being punished, forced to repeatedly stop, and keep getting pushed farther and farther back by those prima donnas whose trip is way more important than everyone else’s.
You can keep yelling “ZIPPER MERGE!”, but those assholes saw the same sign I did telling them that they should move over, but they didn’t. Now they can wait.
There’s Zipper Merge, and then there’s “I’m more important than everyone else, so I’m going to the front of the line and force my way in.”
See, the single file line continues to move if everyone gets over when the sign clearly says “Lane Ends Ahead Merge Now”. It may move slowly, but it moves. If people pass everyone in line and speed ahead to force their way in, the single file lane then has to repeatedly stop to let those people in. The people who followed the road sign and moved over (by zipper merging at the right point) are now being punished, forced to repeatedly stop, and keep getting pushed farther and farther back by those prima donnas whose trip is way more important than everyone else’s.
You can keep yelling “ZIPPER MERGE!”, but those assholes saw the same sign I did telling them that they should move over, but they didn’t. Now they can wait.