Bel, i am with you, you get buffeted by the wind..

once coming into manhattan, the two lane exit ramp from the bridge, met the two lane highway, to become a three lane highway. traffice was heavy (isn't always?) but it was moving.. the middle lane drivers (the merge lane) keep neatly letting alternate traffic in. (one car from bridge, one car from highway, *followed by one car from bridge, one car from highway(repeat from *))

I commented the traffic was neatly collating..

"collating? what do mean collating? how can cars collate?"

but isn't that what they were doing? what word would you use? and why can't cars collate?