I pay taxes so that women can have gynecological exams covered by Medicaid. You don’t see me getting all upset that I can’t get some of what I’m paying for. Just move the fuck over.
In my example, the next lane over is moving at a constant 40, so if I move a constant 45, I’m legal.
Guns on freeways? We tried that.
Bad example: my wife or sister are able to obtain that care. Your example would be better if they, too, were not allowed to see the doctor, just as I am not allowed to use the fast lane.
You’re talking like a Jim Crow racist, saying, “Go to the back of the bus.”
ETA: You’re also wrong in another way. I already have moved the fuck over. I explained that. I’m not allowed to use the fast lane. It’s illegal. You’re telling me to do what I’ve already fucking done.
You may be right, but it’s little comfort.
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Many signs have I seen that say “slower traffic keep right,” or “keep right except to pass.” I have yet to see any variant that says “… keep middle.”
As a relative of several truck drivers, who in this part of the country are prohibited from the far left lane, center lane hogs are no better than left lane hogs, as that’s the only lane truckers can use to overtake.
Today, on the inbound Stevenson, I saw something that I only personally witness every 10 or 12 years or so.
So there I was in the “fast lane” behind three other cars and we’re all doing 65 mph. {we were close to the Archer Ave. exit}. I wanted to go faster but traffic was thick, so I was just cruising along…
This Chevy Trailblazer comes up behind me and sizes up the situation {that the first car was going too slow} and decides to pass on the left, yes LEFT shoulder of the expressway!!!
So He/She veers left onto the shoulder and hits the gas and stirs up this huge plume of dust and salt and manages to get the three car lengths ahead and swerves back into the fast lane.
He/She does it again around the Central Ave. exit !
Sure enough I end up following him/her down the exit lane for Cicero Ave.
That idiot driver endangered countless lives to gain nothing time-wise…
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I agree and empathize. And furthermore, anyone that is driving so slow that a big rig is passing should be all the way to the right, and possibly consider sticking to side streets instead.
I may be paying for your wife’s medical care, but I can’t use the same services. I’m being ripped off! Just like how you may not enjoy every public service that your tax dollars go for. Ever pilot an F-35? No? Why? Because it would be illegal for a random joe to take one out for a spin? Boo-hoo!
You are like a Jim Crow law, in that you’re fucking stupid and it will take a long time to explain to future generations any reasonable logic for it.
I amend my statement: instead of pull over, I insist that you stop whining. Or speed up and use the fast lane. It doesn’t take a rocket surgeon to drive in the fast lane at a pace that will both keep up with traffic and not be so excessive as to seriously risk a speeding ticket. Millions of drivers manage to do it every day. I’m sorry it is hard for you to do something that a normal human is capable of.
Bloody hell! I’ve never seen that! Passing illegally on the right shoulder, especially during super slow traffic, all the damn time, but never anyone race-tracking on the left!
(Not very long ago I was in the 1/2 mph crawl, somebody tried to use the right shoulder…and the CHP was right there and nailed him. Lots of drivers were grinning at that sight!)
A coworker had her husband killed and a daughter permanently crippled by the fault of some guy who was speeding (and herself was hospitalized for months and then went into depression for years). She speeds. When I pointed out at the apparent cognitive dissonance she told me that she never speeds when her daughters are in her car, so she seemingly doesn’t give a shit about other people’s children. Some people are hopeless.
This is ridiculously sad, and speaks well to my OP.
That said, it reminds me of a joke…
A man was driving, his friend was the passenger. The man was running through every red light without pausing. The passenger noted how irresponsible and unsafe this was.
The driver says, ‘nah, my brother drives this way all the time, he’s never been in an accident’.
Then they come to a green light and the driver slams on the brakes.
‘WTF?’ says the passenger, ‘why did you stop at the green??’
The driver replies, ‘you never know, my brother could be coming the other way’.
We get tailgaters all the fucking time in Taiwan. We’re on the express road up to Taipei and the traffic is medium, and these idiots will butt through gaps with barely any room in front or behind. They are counting on other people not making any changes other than to brake and let them through.
The other thing you see are the idiots who are second in line on the left turn, waiting for the person ahead of them. If there is a gap which the first car hesitates the second may shoot for it, even if the first one does move. Absolutely insane.
Driving is not a competition, it is a cooperative effort.
I’m lucky, I don’t punch a clock at work anymore, so if I’m 5, 10, or 15 minutes late it’s no skin off my ass. If someone looks like they’re in a hurry, I get out of their way.