My drive is 50 miles one way. And the difference wasn’t 10 or 15 mph. It was 30 mph (at the other driver’s fastest speed). He averaged between 40 and 50 mph. The usual cruising speed for that highway in the left hand lane is around 80 mph.
So you could either have left your place early enough for this not to be an issue, you could have left early enough for you to have not had to speed and/or tailgate (I don’t know if you were speeding but your comment about usual cruising speed indicates that’s not such a leap of logic & I’m fairly certain the guy wouldn’t have been yelling at you if you hadn’t been tailgaiting (a violation of law, by the way)) to get to your destination.
Or I suppose you could have passed him on the right since there was plenty of room, supposedly.
I did pass him on the right as soon as I could. He was staying beside a small truck pulling a horse trailer. As soon as the truck with the trailer exited then we all started passing him.
I’m going to address the OP as if it were written in such a way that pleased and amused everyone.
You’re wrong.
Well, you’re right about the Lane 1 person going the same speed as the Lane 2 person – this is irritating. But just because you want to go 80 in a 65 zone doesn’t mean you get to be mad at the person in the left lane doing 75. 75 is a respectable speed in a 65 zone in any lane; if you can’t find a way among the cars in all the lanes to pass the person in the left lane, you’re probably going too fast.
I realize in Washington it is officially the law, and sometimes the custom, to use the left lane for passing only. But this is wrong. All the lanes should be used; this makes for better traffic flow.
Um, not to nitpick, but 50 miles driven at 50 mph would take an hour. 50 miles at 40 mph would take 73 minutes. 50 miles driven at 80 mph would take 37.5 minutes. So even at his slowest speed, you’re talking max. 46 minutes difference, and that’s assuming you were behind him the entire trip. Weak. Very weak.
I agree. If he had been driving 75 I would not have had a problem. He was driving between 40 and 50. He adjusted his speed to match the speed of the truck pulling the trailer next to him. The truck pulling the trailer tried to vary his speed so that they were not side by side which would have allowed the other drivers to pass the guy in the left lane. The guy in the left lane would change his speed to match the other driver’s so nobody could pass.
Ok, I was approximately 1 hour late.
My care factor is a big fucking 0.
So this guy was driving slow and sloppy, yet matching every move the truck made?
Then, when you sped by him on the right, he powered down his passenger side window and screamed obscenities after you while fornicating with African pottery?
Ok, two stars out of ten.
I was on a 4-lane highway today. I was in lane 2, with no cars to my left or right for several car links. Then here comes Mr. Silver Jag racing up right behind me. The fucking asshole actually starting honking, like I was supposed to get in the slower lane. Hey buddy you have 3 other lanes to get around me. Doesn’t that piece of shit Jag have a steering wheel? Or are you in a hurry to get it back into the shop for more repairs? If you want to go 40 mph over the speed limit, that’s your decision. But don’t get your undies in a knot if I don’t pull over and let you and your law breaking silver Jag fly on by.
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Apparently
Thank you
Hm.
Garland. That’s up around the Metroplex, as I recall… is it still two-lane up there?
If so, the guy was certainly being a turd.
But I would have thought certainly you guys would have had 35 expanded to three lanes by now. We’ve had to put up with a couple YEARS of blocked lanes, detours, and nonsense down here around San Antonio and Austin.
You guys aren’t up to three lanes yet? It really helps when one encounters those polypansexual natives of third world countries who don’t understand what a “passing lane” is…
All this trying to solve his lateness issues in the Pit! Pfui!
I myself think this is quite a Pitworthy posting. My mental image was as catsix interprets, of one who “copulate[s] with pottery from impoverished African nations”. There are so many old ways of being derogatory, and yet this stands out. The continual recentering on the driving of said douche nozzle prevents a wandering theme, and the superfluous “fuck” in “driving like old people fuck” show this writer is willing to be superfluous to make a point.
Dragging down this post is the subtle interpretation required for the above phrase, plus the possibility of drawing ire from the temporally challenged. Four stars!
I’m not even gonna comment on the OP, but instead take this moment to rant about a similar occurence myself.
Okay, so I was on this little 2 lane highway and headin’ home. I’m in the right lane, doin’ a solid 60 (speed limit being 55) and basically taking it easy. No need to speed, it’s only a few minutes to my turn off, everything is good. I’m comin’ up to this hill. It’s a pretty big damn hill. And I’m behind 2 trucks–on the flat stretch, they’re doing good, doing fine, no troubles here, but big old semis do not do so well on the accelerating up big fuckin’ hills bit, so I’m about to pass 'em. Don’t wanna get get stuck behind at 30MPH by the top of the hill, right? So I’m just thinking that and the semi directly in front of me decides to pass the other semi. He’s trying to speed up, but we’re almost at the base of the hill, and he’s not gonna make it. I start screaming at him “What the fuck were you thinking, man?!?” Not that he can hear me, of course, but it does the body good. So here I am, stuck behind TWO FUCKING SEMI TRUCKS, and they’re slowing down even more every damn meter they go. There’s this huge pileup in each lane behind 'em, and I’m sure I’m not the only one shouting. The semi in the left lane simply cannot go fast enough to pass the semi in the right lane, and the semi in the right lane cannot go fast enough to let our tiny-ass cars slip through the inevitable roadblock. We’re fucked, all the way up the damn hill.
And it pissed me off, as I’m sure you can tell.
And in any rational-thinking state, this would be absolutely true. However, as the OP’s location suggests, this is nota rational-thinking state, this is Texas. Dallas-Fort Worth area, to be exact. None of that silly “logic”, “rules of the road” or what’s that term…oh, “speed limits”, you called them?
I regularly do about 80 in the fast lane. About once a day I get damn near ran over before even being ABLE to move over by someone doing at LEAST 90+.
Did I mention turn signals are apparently entirely an option here?
They didn’t tell me any of this stuff when I moved here from Chicago.
How many potential band names can you find in the OP?
I came up with six.
I came up with 15, but there are probably countless more.
- Half a Fucking Brain
- Greasy Aftermath
- Ethiopian Jug Fuckers
- Old People
- First Pit Posting
- Worthy
- Canine Cluster Fuck
- Dingle Berries
- Dingle Berries on the Ass of Life
- Dick Beaters
- Dick Suckers
- Stay to the Right
- Vagina Blood Fart
- Douche Nozzle
- I35 North
So, Greathouse, has it dawned on you yet that you were the problem driver in the story you related in the OP?
Ah, my first opportunity to link to this website which lists each state’s keep right laws.
None of you have savored the pleasure of I-10 in New Orleans, where the center lane means “Drive 10 miles under the speed limit” and everyone travels in packs of six cars, all going the same speed.
Actually I liked it , though it may have had a few too many descriptives in it.
And no, ** Monty **, I disagree. While Greathouse caught flak for misinterpretations of types of pottery I think he nailed it.
When some clueless fuck camps in the left lane, forming a moving road block with the vehicle in the right lane and there’s a couple miles of Texas highway cleared in front of him - I pretty much agree that ** clueless fuck (and his favorite pottery) is the problem**
Bubba