no florida tag?

Stay in the right lane!

The governor could pardon road rage guy from thread 6513107 and suggest to Floridians that the beating victim deserved it. (Herald Tribune story) While road rage guy deserves jail time, there may be greater value in a million left lane blockers suddenly fearing physical harm. Florida doesn't have recall for governors as far as I know. The old, slow people can shake their canes all they want. Rick Scott still has two more years.

If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

Yeah, they might be a bit rude, but you're really stupid.

Cyclometh: If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

You have no idea how slow your pokey ass really drives do you?

I'll give you some conception. I used to have a nigh 30 mile commute. I had to allow two hours to get there. On a good day, it took me 45 minutes to complete the commute. But, there were no passing lanes. Often, it would take 1:30 to do, even when there wasn't much traffic except some slow mother farker like you.

If someone has a job interview and they don't know where they're going, how the fark do you expect them to allow nearly double the time it should take just in case your entitled ass decides to go cruising along at speeds so slow little kids on big wheels are passing you? That's pretty entitled of you.

doglover: Cyclometh: If you want to be on time, leave early enough so that someone driving a bit under the speed limit doesn't make you late.

You have no idea how slow your pokey ass really drives do you?

hah. When I do drive (which isn't often, as I live close to work) you can rely on me being faster than you. Most of the time I'll be on two wheels with a bike that has an engine larger than your car. But you go ahead.

I'll give you some conception. I used to have a nigh 30 mile commute. I had to allow two hours to get there. On a good day, it took me 45 minutes to complete the commute. But, there were no passing lanes. Often, it would take 1:30 to do, even when there wasn't much traffic except some slow mother farker like you.

If someone has a job interview and they don't know where they're going, how the fark do you expect them to allow nearly double the time it should take just in case your entitled ass decides to go cruising along at speeds so slow little kids on big wheels are passing you? That's pretty entitled of you.

When I worked 75 miles away from here (for over a decade), I ran into a lot of people driving slowly. But instead of biatching about them being slow, I factored their presence (which will not go away) into my planning. On the other hand, I could have whined, biatched and moaned about it and blamed other people for my inability to plan for objective reality.

I have fifty THOUSAND miles on a motorcyle alone commuting 75 miles one way, five days each week. That doesn't count the miles on the car, or the innumerable trips on trains and buses (depending on time of year, weather and work schedule) I know whereof I speak. The way it works is- you leave early enough to arrive, or you're late. If you don't plan, you're a dumbass. I stand by exactly what I said.

I give a little leeway: more than an hour in any direction and I'm okay with someone driving slow/confused. I'm on the Indiana/Kentucky/Illinois border. If I see a North Carolina plate on a car not going with traffic, I'm not pissed because I'd expect the same courtesy. Live the next county over and drive like a farktard? Your death shall not be quick and painless.

Cyclometh: I stand by exactly what I said.

It's true. And I while I can usually be accurate to the MINUTE for when I arrive in a place these days thanks to Japan's policy of executing train drivers who are more than 45 seconds off schedule or however they do it, I was never late in America because I too allowed extra time.

However, you really have to drive behind someone from Ohio going 50 in the left lane of a highway keeping you boxed in next to diesel spewing big rig to understand that some people just CANNOT drive and should be forced to at least re-take the license.

Slow drivers are annoying and all, but oblivious drivers make me see red. This morning for example, I had 3 intersections to go through where people had driven into the intersection and got stuck by traffic, meaning that it was causing gridlock for the people going the other direction. The idiots who drove into the intersection and parked are farked in the head. The far more annoying ones are the idiots in front of them who have left themselves a 2 car gap and have no idea what's happening just 3 or 4 cars behind them. If these idiots just inched forward a bit, then the gridlock wouldn't exist in the first farking place.

/Took me 30 minutes to get into work today.
//Normally takes about 5-10 minutes

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Nice!

I just can't think of left lane drivers as anything other than self-involved, self-entitled assholes.

Personally I hate tail gaters and the idiots who think flashing their brights while doing so are entitled to tell you how to drive. If I'm in front of you there is likely a good chance I can see why I wouldn't want to do 80mph+. Perhaps there is an actual car in front of me, perhaps I can see brake lights up ahead it really doesn't matter.

But when I'm doing 5 over and someone decides they can dictate to me how to drive while close enough for me to count their nose hairs I get a bit irritated simply because of the fact that if I have to slam on my brakes I'll probably lose my car.

/slow drivers aren't nearly so bad
//just annoying
///especially 15 under

While I hated the slow drivers from that area, the ones who scare the shiat out of me are the ones who drive the wrong way down the highway.

What I never understand is when the speed limit (around here at least) is 55mph, people will be going typically 15 over. But when you get to a nice area where it's posted at 70mph people will be doing 65 tops.
/and don't get me started on WI driving, it's like farking nascar over there. nttawwt

One time on a trip from Atlanta to Charleston, there was a slow driver in the left lane. Everyone was passing him on the right, but contrary to what the article says, a cop can and will still give you a ticket in that situation.

When I got behind him, I flashed my brights...and he turned on his hazard lights. Myself and many others went around him on the right. Once we had all passed him, he turned off his hazard lights and continued to stay in the left lane.

What a dick.

wolf_in_cheapclothing: Honk all you want, I'm getting great gas mileage at this speed.. My last fill-up I got 57mpg in a non-hybrid.

Yeah, but you're driving a Geo Metro.

If you're in the left lane and someone is right behind you, move a lane to the right.

It's that easy.

crispyone: We'd try telling him that he was the one being the a-hole but he'd never believe us.Oh, and he also drove with one foot on the gas and the other on the brakes so this further infuriated drivers as he'd be excelerating with his brake lights on.

Why do old (and it is ONLY old) people do this? I see these two-footing codgers around here all the time. They start out from a red light and their brake lights stay on till they get up to about 25-30 mph.

Was this accepted driving technique back in the days of hand-crank starters or something? I have to think that's hell on a modern car. Not to mention probably the cause of 90% of the "it just accelerated into the front of the store all by itself!" accidents.

ChaffedTitty: They also cause more wrecks than speeders.

This is the biggest problem by far. When people are chugging down the left lane at 65-75 (Speed limit of 55-65) and some self-important busy-body decides to do 45-50 they're going to get rear-ended or (more likely) get somebody behind them rear-ended. People expect the left lane to at least go speed limit and to do under is to be unsafe. If you're going to be an impediment, have the common courtesy to put on your blinkers so people become aware something's different a lot sooner.

I'll fully admit to being well and truly pissed at people like that, but I can generally find a way around them. Far far far far worse are the people who pull out of a side street in front of a car obviously at speed and then do under the speed limit. Nothing on the road makes me more red-assed.