If you’ve driven in El Paso for more than five minutes, you already know that traffic laws here are more like “gentle suggestions.” Whether you’re on I-10, Mesa, or just trying to leave a Target parking lot with your sanity intact, there are certain behaviors that El Paso drivers seem physically incapable of performing, almost like they break out in hives at the thought. Here are the top five things El Paso drivers are apparently allergic to.

1. Using Turn Signals

The humble turn signal. A simple flick of the wrist that tells the world where you’re going. Yet somehow, it remains a mystery to half the city. Maybe the blinker fluid’s too expensive, or maybe it’s a deep philosophical stance: “If you don’t know where I’m going, you don’t deserve to.”

2. Turning Into The Actual Turning Lane

Why use your turning lane when you can swing wide like you’re driving a semi through a NASCAR track? Bonus points if you cut across three lanes in the process. Nothing screams confidence like a left turn that doubles as a social experiment.

3. Merging Without Chaos

There’s a special kind of driver who will see an open lane, ignore the massive gap behind another car, and instead force themselves directly between two cars that clearly don’t have room. It’s like they believe traffic merges by divine right.

4. Parking In An Actual Spot

Lines in parking lots are apparently just decorative. El Paso drivers treat them like abstract art. Some park diagonally, others take up two spots, and the boldest among us? They park wherever gravity stops their car.

5. Being Safe In General

Speed limits, safe distances, caution lights, all optional, apparently. Between the 90 mph freeway flyers and the 20 mph “I’m lost” lane crawlers, safety is less a priority and more of a punchline.

So if you just read through this list nodding and laughing because you do all of these things, stop. You are the problem. You’re the reason everyone’s blood pressure spikes on I-10. Use your blinker. Park in the lines. Merge like a functioning human being. El Paso will thank you, and maybe, just maybe, we’ll all live to tell the tale.

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