I had one quite a few years back but it still brings a smile to my face when I drive by the location!

In Sarasota, Florida, we have a bridge that connects the mainland to one of the keys (small islands just off the coast). This bridge is called the John Ringling Bridge. The road connects directly to US41 that heads north and south. When you come off the bridge and approach US41, the road becomes four lanes. The two left lanes are to turn north. The middle lane goes straight, and the right lane turns right heading south. The right lane is the one we will focus on for this story. The right turn is a gradual, soft right because right where US 41 and the Ringling road meet, there is a left bend in the road as US41 goes around a huge marina. So, the traffic engineers built plenty of road for the lanes and turns and just striped off what could almost be considered a good portion of another lane between the middle and right lanes.

In any case, people would come down the bridge and those who wanted to turn right would dutifully get in the line of traffic in the right lane and stay there until they were all the way through the intersection and had merged onto US41.

Well, one evening I was coming home from work (I worked out on Longboat Key and traveled the bridge every single day) and was headed down the bridge when some blankety-blank in a sports car decided that he needed to inspect my rear bumper the entire way. Mind you, this is rush-hour traffic during season so there are cars in both lanes — everyone doing pretty close to the 45MPH speed limit over the bridge. But that wasn’t good enough for this little punk. He clung to my bumper all the way down the bridge and when I pulled into the right lane he whipped out around me into the middle lane (which was pretty empty since most people were turning left or right and flew down to try to cut in the right-turn lane. Well, the lane was almost completely full so he sped up and went through the striped area and cut off one of the people in the right lane to get into the line faster.

Here’s the beautiful part. One of the cars in the left turn lanes was a police officer who witnessed this idiot pull this stunt. He immediately pulled out and lit the guy up and pulled him over right after he had merged onto US41. I’m absolutely positive that every. single. car that went by this guy just laughed at him for his completely obnoxious arrogance that was now going to cost him several hundred dollars!

That was, by far, the best instant karma I have personally witnessed! Like I said, to this day I still think about it every time I drive that road! :-)