What is with the absolute refusal to simply get into a passing lane and, you know, pass? I understand that here in Oregon, the right lane is typically occupied by some speed-limit vigilante going one mile per hour under said limit. But why ride someone's ass if there's an entire free lane to your left? I think we were seeing a little projection from Dayspritzer McSUV over there.
If society wants to drive faster, raise the speed limit. Tracking devices installed in vehicles for "cheap" insurance rates aren't necessarily making us safer, but they sure are pissing off people in a hurry. As for people in a hurry, try leaving earlier.
If "tracking devices installed in vehicles for 'cheap' insurance rates" is long for "wannabe cops who stop the flow of traffic and don't know how to zipper merge," then we agree.
@4 - I didn't stutter. I said what I meant and meant what I said. I am perfectly happy staying in the right lane with my cruise control set at the speed limit. Not because of the law but for my peace of mind. Fighting traffic, changing lanes as there is little consistency to travel speed from lane to lane, is stressful. I don't feel that urgent need to be someplace 5 minutes quicker.
Sure there are people like myself that are perfectly comfortable being in the right lane doing the speed limit, but we all have our own motives. Mine is knowing that driving in traffic is stressful, limiting the need to weave in traffic reduces my stress. If my going the speed limit in the right lane stresses others... well better you than me.
@5 don't take it personally, he's always like that. I'm just chiming in to say you are 100% right. The irony is that people who drive that way think they are the best drivers but in reality they are the worst. They honestly believe that speeding and weaving and acting like they own the road makes them some kind of Grand Theft Auto wizard. But it never dawns on them that good drivers don't froth at the mouth and stroke out every time they have to accommodate other drivers' styles. Sadly they most likely will never know the joy of leaving the house early and never stressing the traffic.
@6 You don't know me, motherfucker. Feel free to take a slow left lane into a river.
@4 This is my fault. It's perfectly acceptable to sit in the right lane and flip on the cruise control. It's how that's supposed to be done. However, I wrote "right lane" when I meant "left lane," so my snarkier second post was needling you for doing what you're supposed to do. I apologize, and wish there were more drivers like you.
There are a lot of stressed-out, angry people out there behind the wheel. Some have guns. Be careful.
What is with the absolute refusal to simply get into a passing lane and, you know, pass? I understand that here in Oregon, the right lane is typically occupied by some speed-limit vigilante going one mile per hour under said limit. But why ride someone's ass if there's an entire free lane to your left? I think we were seeing a little projection from Dayspritzer McSUV over there.
If society wants to drive faster, raise the speed limit. Tracking devices installed in vehicles for "cheap" insurance rates aren't necessarily making us safer, but they sure are pissing off people in a hurry. As for people in a hurry, try leaving earlier.
If "tracking devices installed in vehicles for 'cheap' insurance rates" is long for "wannabe cops who stop the flow of traffic and don't know how to zipper merge," then we agree.
@4 - I didn't stutter. I said what I meant and meant what I said. I am perfectly happy staying in the right lane with my cruise control set at the speed limit. Not because of the law but for my peace of mind. Fighting traffic, changing lanes as there is little consistency to travel speed from lane to lane, is stressful. I don't feel that urgent need to be someplace 5 minutes quicker.
Sure there are people like myself that are perfectly comfortable being in the right lane doing the speed limit, but we all have our own motives. Mine is knowing that driving in traffic is stressful, limiting the need to weave in traffic reduces my stress. If my going the speed limit in the right lane stresses others... well better you than me.
@5 don't take it personally, he's always like that. I'm just chiming in to say you are 100% right. The irony is that people who drive that way think they are the best drivers but in reality they are the worst. They honestly believe that speeding and weaving and acting like they own the road makes them some kind of Grand Theft Auto wizard. But it never dawns on them that good drivers don't froth at the mouth and stroke out every time they have to accommodate other drivers' styles. Sadly they most likely will never know the joy of leaving the house early and never stressing the traffic.
I wonder if it was that bespectacled cow who terrorizes 42nd avenue in her white shit sled.
@6 You don't know me, motherfucker. Feel free to take a slow left lane into a river.
@4 This is my fault. It's perfectly acceptable to sit in the right lane and flip on the cruise control. It's how that's supposed to be done. However, I wrote "right lane" when I meant "left lane," so my snarkier second post was needling you for doing what you're supposed to do. I apologize, and wish there were more drivers like you.