Like I said, no need to be the rock in the river. Thanks for quoting the bowler, I thought it may have been sort of a perverse pleasure for the cop.
People who don't use the passing lane to pass
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Like I said, no need to be the rock in the river. Thanks for quoting the bowler, I thought it may have been sort of a perverse pleasure for the cop.
Tom_R
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Unfortunately, the highways that I drive on, even though the left lane is supposed to be for passing only, I have to stay in the left lane, because the drivers in the middle lane and right lane are usually driving under the speed limit, or on their cell phones. Talking on the phone is my number 1 pet peeve if people do it while driving.
So yes, I have to drive in the left lane almost the whole time, just to get somewhere. If someone is haulin rear behind me, I always move to the right and let them pass, then I get back over to the left.
I look at it 2 ways, it's common courtesy, and more importantly, if there is a cop, they'll get pulled and I can keep going at a reasonable clip.
So yes, I have to drive in the left lane almost the whole time, just to get somewhere. If someone is haulin rear behind me, I always move to the right and let them pass, then I get back over to the left.
I look at it 2 ways, it's common courtesy, and more importantly, if there is a cop, they'll get pulled and I can keep going at a reasonable clip.
dcxplant
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The irony in AZ is that the middle or right lanes move faster than than the left because of so many left-lane bandits cluelessly driving in perfect formation on the left rear bumper of the car to their right.
I was out for a ride on my bike one day, I was coming up to an intersection where I had the right of way and as I entered the inter section these two little thugs in their thug mobile pull up to the intersection, the driver looks right at me yells **** you !!! And pulls right out in front of me, and when I say right in front of me I mean right in front of me as in I was doing about 30mph and had to slam on the brakes to avoid driving into the side of his car. And believe me he knew that's what I was going to have to do to not hit him.
Tom_R
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I am sure you are a good dude, but when you do things like that, you are actually part of the of the problem. The problem being dangerous highways with people not sharing the road. The person upsetting you may just happen to be an idiot. You are consciously choosing to get back at them.
I just hope you don't ever do it to the wrong person.
We lived in Florida for 12 years, I guarantee the right lane is the passing lane in Florida. With the SloPokers down there you could stay in the left lane for years, flashing lights don't work
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That's when I then become a left lane hugger for a few miles by slowing down to the speed of the vehicle next to me in the right lane. When I do decide to move back in the right lane and they pass me with their dirty looks, they usually just get the bird!
The PA Turnpike has a huge problem with left lane hogs on the western half of the road. I'd say about 80% of these idiots are driving cars with Ohio plates. Do you even have to take a test to get licensed in Ohio?
Left lane on a cellphone..no clue what planet they are on, it drives me nuts. I refer to them as the people that would 'drive to hell in the left had lane'.
Makes me wish for a Star Wars light sabre or an M1 Abrams
Makes me wish for a Star Wars light sabre or an M1 Abrams
mike from st pete
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My brother is so liberal he can't bring himself to drive in the right lane.
shouldazagged
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No offense intended, but do you also tap-dance in minefields?
The speed-matching is somewhat provocative (and I've done it too), but the single-digit salute has gotten many people run off the road and/or shot at. And sometimes dead.
I'm always armed and I don't flip people off. One never knows if the recipient is running on a complex, explosive mixture of testosterone, sense of entitlement, booze and drugs, or has a girlfriend along he wants to impress. To such imbeciles the finger is the international symbol for "You ain't much of a man if you don't come and stomp my butt."
I quit doing that form of sign language years ago. That is partly why I will soon be 77.
WRONG! The driver is just one more member of the ME ME ME generation with no understanding that other people are on the planet!
Hate to break it to you slugger but that description (on some level) fits every human being on this planet
hangnoose
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2 BASIC TYPES OF DRIVERS.
IDIOTS drive slower than me, MANIACS drive faster
IDIOTS drive slower than me, MANIACS drive faster
coltle6920
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Getting up to speed and merging with traffic can be a driving skill in itself.Some onramps around here just aren't long enough to gather speed.Merging into traffic or allowing someone else to merge is a courtesy that should be shared by both parties.
That just might be one reason why people stay in the left lane.There isn't any merging traffic except for a few places I've seen.
LVSteve
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... and when there are seven billion (AKA far too many) of us, many in close proximity, bad stuff's gonna happen.
coltle6920
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No offense intended, but do you also tap-dance in minefields?
The speed-matching is somewhat provocative (and I've done it too), but the single-digit salute has gotten many people run off the road and/or shot at. And sometimes dead.
I'm always armed and I don't flip people off. One never knows if the recipient is running on a complex, explosive mixture of testosterone, sense of entitlement, booze and drugs, or has a girlfriend along he wants to impress. To such imbeciles the finger is the international symbol for "You ain't much of a man if you don't come and stomp my butt."
I quit doing that form of sign language years ago. That is partly why I will soon be 77.
I think it's one of those things people don't get until they learn the hard way.
There was point in my life where I seemed to have a psycho magnet on my forehead so I have a bunch of stories to tell.
One day (had to have been 20 years ago) I had a run in at the gas station on Ft. Carson with a guy that cut me off at the pumps. I don't even remember what I said but whatever it was he came absolutely, foaming at the mouth unglued on me.
He was an inch away from my face screaming (not yelling SCREAMING ) that he was going to murder me right then and there and he was very specific about using that word.
I don't even remember what turned him off but he just stopped in the middle of his rant and walked over and finished pumping his gas and drove away.
Bottom line, I've run into enough people like this in my life that I am convinced that the world is full of very angry people who are one tick away from exploding.
As a result I do not leave my home unarmed and more importantly (And anyone who follows my posts will see this theme over and over and over again) I. DO. NOT. TRIFLE. WITH. PEOPLE. I. DON'T. KNOW. (and very damned few that I do know).
To the folks that insist on antagonizing folks out on the highway I'll say it again, do it long enough and I don't care who you are it will bite you.
When it does if you have to use a gun to cash the check you wrote with your mouth you're going to play Hell justifying your actions as self defense
