Rubbernecking

It seems that whenever I go on a vacation I spend a great deal of time in traffic that is not moving. There are two common causes to this.

1. Merging lanes. Why is it that people can't figure a way to merge from 3 lanes into 2? There is always enough warning to get over but everyone wants to wait until the last minute to get ahead of everyone else. Of course this is what causes the backups. There must be a better way to merge.

2. An accident or police car sitting on the side of the road. These vehicles aren't even in the road yet for some reason 65 miles an hour cannot be done. We must all go 5 miles and hour to look at what is going on. I just don't understand. I mean, okay you are curious, but you just spent the last hour going 2 miles an hour......is it really worth it.

We had this happen again today coming home from Philadelphia. There were 2 cars and a police car on the side of the road. It frustrates me when there is just no logic.