There are people in this world, right now,
who are having their skin removed
one square inch at a time,
just to force them to admit to something that they didn't even do
Take your foot off the gas, turn up the tunes, and smile
I realize that in the grand scheme of things, slow left lane drivers are now a major issue.
Most of the time I do end up doing exactly as you say... put on slower music, and try to relax.
My main goal with the OP was to
1. VENT... I was rather pissed about being late to an appointment, despite leaving early for it.
2. Hope that someone who is a slow left lane driver, might realize what a pain in the @$$ they can be to others.
hehe people drive slow around you because you look like a cop in that car.
Which is at least in part an issue, but a different issue. Around NYC no one actually pays attention to crown vics... at least not much, but I do notice often that if I drive in the right lane people will slow down, and pace me. As such I do usually try to drive at least 5mph over the limit, usually more.
SAVED BEST FOR LAST
You got a mom? a granny? GF? sister maybe... and old uncle Joe. would you drive like those I described if it were them in front of you ... or would you like it if your grand dad was cruising at the speed limit in the passing lane and he was put through all that crap...and I keep this in mind-- there are more (legal and not)people carrying sidearms these days.
Actually I had a major fight with my uncle a few years back. I refused to let him drive until he got his eyes checked out. He's also far from young.
Mom, granny, gf, or anyone else should not drive if they can't pay attention and react properly on the road. When I can't drive myself... I don't drive either.
I have to agree.... I don't have the luxury of wasting the
few hours that I have left on Earth behind some sight seeing
moron that is not aware of his surroundings or the highway
driving/safety code...
$hit... or get off the Pot....
I'm on the road for business reasons and not for wasting
my time to see the trees go by... I do that on Sundays on
my Harley on the right lane leisurely taking in the sights.
That's exactly it... in both cases. On shorter trips if I don't have to be somewhere on time for something, I really don't care because I know going an extra 10mph and the 1-2 minutes i save will not matter.
On longer trips however, the time does add up, and I would rather spend time doing things I like and not killing time getting there.
Generally I'm only irritated by these situations when I do have to be somewhere for a specific appointment... if I don't, I don't care about a few minutes plus or minutes.
The one thing that really pisses me off is someone that comes out of the express lane to take the frigging exit. I drive a service truck that weighs 18,900 lbs, These morons think I can stop like a small car can. Out of all of the places I have driven all across the U.S. coast to coast and in B.C. Utah has the worst drivers. My gf got rear ended in our Honda accord last week, they are debating weather or not to total it. This is the third rear end accident that we have had happen in the 6 years that we have lived in Utah and not one of them has been our fault. Las Vegas comes in second for shitty drivers.
Yes slow drivers in the left lane piss me off, the speed limit here is 75 and 65 on the freeway, most drive 80. But there are a few that drive 60 or slower in 75 mph zone and oh yeah drive side by side. When I am going on a service call I am charging that company $135.00 an hour even for my travel, so I try to get from point A to point B as quickly as possible. Some days I wish I had a built in missile launcher or a big snow plow V blade on the front of my truck to move the slow assholes out of my way.
A few weeks ago I was doing 80 mph and I was coming to the on ramp and slowed down to let a lady on, she was not paying attention (as usual) as soon as she was in my lane she looked in the mirror and saw my truck and just hit her brakes and ducked her head. Thank god the pickup that was in the left lane passing me saw what was happening and hit his brakes so I could move over, thankfully an accident did not occur. The guy driving the pickup pulled up next to me and I waived and said thank you. He waived back and just shook his head as in disbelief of what had happened.
Driving is not a right it is a privilege and some people should not have that privilege!
I forgot to mention in Utah if you are in the left lanes and someone comes up behind you, you are supposed to move over or get fined. But they don't enforce that law.
I can't count how often I see people jump for exit from the center or middle lane of a three lane highway. Came literally inches from an accident a couple weeks ago, after a cabbie pulled across three lanes to make an exit. I had a little more room to hit the breaks and swerve... the two cars in front of me, but behind the cabbie didn't... cab drove off but the other two cars... fender bender.:scowl:
What really pisses me off is when im in the car and were wanting to turn left, theres always a d*ck who stays on the 'turn left' lane even though he wants to go straight. It just holds up a line of like 30 people and we are forced to wait untill he gets the frick out of the way.
Yup... very annoying. A lot of lights in my town have actually not gotten upgraded to have an separate turn arrow, and have the left turn only lane, where before you could go straight from either.
In the same vein... there are also the people who for whatever reason insist on pacing my in my freaking blind spot. I mean why not keep a short distance between cars?
