And it’s not so you and your buddy can suck each others cocks while cruising along next to each other at ten under. Look, you fucking cum guzzling gutter twats, it’s called the “fast lane” for a reason. It’s made for those going faster than your paraplegic excuse for a zygote. I could give a fuck less if you want to drive fifteen under the limit, that’s why they made two lanes, so that assbitches like you don’t interfere with normal traffic flow. And when there’s three lanes, whiskey tango foxtrot do you and your buddy still drive side by side in the two leftmost lanes, forcing me to pass on the right.
Yes, I know it snowed last night. But it’s not freezing outside, and the crews did a damn good job last night. The roads are actually in -better- condition than in the summer, because there’s no debris on them.
Oh, and cock smokers? Listen up. Merging means “to blend gradually by stages that blur distinctions”. When the sign says, “Left Lane Closed 1 Mile”, that does NOT mean that you should all pile into the right lane as soon as you see that sign. The lane is not suddenly going to end, like I wish your waste of a life would. Instead, in about 5,000 feet, the lane is going to -gradually- come to an end. There’s that gradual word again. Should I look that one up for you too? So, you righteous fuck, when you merge improperly, it causes those who are doing it correctly to have to fight to get in in 4,000 feet. Which reminds me, don’t fucking speed up to close the gap. All that does is make one of us slow down for me to get in, slowing down everybody behind us, causing that magical right lane you all love and care for to get longer.
Well done on everything but I have a bone to pick: it oughta be called the “passing lane.” Because everyone who drives in the fast lane, no matter what their speed, thinks they are going fast, and so long as they think they’re going fast, they stay in that lane. Assholes, every one of them.
If we could get it through people’s thick skulls that the left lane is for passing, not traveling, then the people who are actually zipping along (usually not me, I’m a 5 mph over the limit kind of guy) can get where they’re going any everyone will be happy. It’s like people think it costs them something to change lanes. Jerks.
Good call. If it were commonly called the “passing lane”, it’d eliminate half the bullshit on my morning commute. I’m really glad I come in and leave an hour earlier than the main rush, though. It gets so bad it’s been nicknamed the “Los Alamos 500”. Not because of the speed, but because it’s packed in asshole to elbow.
That’s another thing, you cunt for brains. Just because I’m riding with half a second following distance, doesn’t allow you to pass me on the right to slide in that gap, and then slam on your brakes. Don’t inconvenience me because your car wasn’t powerful enough to match speed quickly, so you have to build up speed to shoot the gap. Cunt stains.
No. Kindly point out to me where I said anything remotely homophobic? One doesn’t have to be homosexual to be a cum guzzler or a cock smoker. Are you just offended because you were in the left lane ALL FUCKING MORNING, driving along side your wife’s sancho?
My bad. I was envisioning more of a self induced bukaki (sp?) than something homophobic, perhaps even a 10 on 10 with how many left-lane-only twat buckets there are on a daily basis. The women can join in in demeaning others in the group, too, I have no problem with that.
Sorry, but I disagree with you a little on this one. When you have a warning sign like that, to me it means get into the other lane as soon as you can do so prudently without causing an accident.
Don’t continue in the left lane for 5,279 feet and then wonder why the other drivers who merged properly get angry when you try to move over.
Is that who’s flying up behind me flashing their brights in my mirror when I’m going 70 mph in the 2nd or 3rd lane? (generally keeping up with traffic) Makes me nuts! Pass me, I don’t care. I’m standing on the gas pedal. My Escort will not go any faster, and to be honest I don’t really think it should.
You can disagree all you want, but you’re wrong. If everybody drove the same, it’d be great, there wouldn’t be a need for the signs a mile ahead, and there’d be no problem. However, aforementioned assbitches are going to be driving 45 in a 65, causing a backup of traffic. I’ll be damned if I’m going to follow somebody for a mile going twenty under when I can pass them.
While I agree that those trying to race to the front of the line are at the other spectrum of assbitchness, you’ll notice I said to merge at 4,000 feet. This allows one to use both lanes properly.
If the speed limit is 75? If so, then, yes, and you’re an assbitch. If you’re in a 65, then I’ll give you more space than 90% of the other cars on the road.
I was with you up to there. Why do you (and many other American drivers) feel it’s necessary to pass on the right? Rather than, say, asking the cars to move over by flashing your lights?
The way I see it, either there are two full-width lanes or there aren’t. Yes, the end of the lane is tapered, but I don’t think you are supposed to follow that and slowly move into the adjacent lane. It’s just dangerous when your position on the road is ambiguous.
If the idiot hasn’t noticed he is driving right beside another car, you really think he’s going to notice or care that someone is approaching behind him? My experience with flashing my headlights at people has almost never worked out. They either ignore it, or let me by then swing back in, ride my bumper with their lights on bright all pissy like. I would much rather leave these assholes behind me.
As evidenced by gwendee’s post, a lot of drivers don’t like to be flashed (well, by brights, anyway). Sometimes, even when they are flashed, they’ll sit in the left lane with nobody in the right lane (and sometimes it’ll even make them road rage and try to cut you off when you -do- get in the right lane to pass). I don’t like passing on the right, but I don’t like sitting behind a person who may or may not move over, either. I drive fast, but I’m not an asshole. I always give people plenty of room (I don’t like rocks in my windshield, amongst other things). If they don’t know notice me and figure out I want to pass them when I’m suddenly behind, and I wasn’t there a moment ago, they’re probably not going to like getting flashed, either.
Because flashing the lights is seen as aggressive driving here. I am conditioned to see it so, as well, but only because 95% of the time it is given when it is unsafe to move over, and repeated flashes of the lights won’t change that condition.
Here’s a hint to those who flash in the states: Firstly, if you are travelling one car length behind me, it is dangerous for either of us to move over because if the other one chose to do so at the same time, there could be an accident. Also, SUV’s and trucks do not allow one to see in the right lane when following that close, and I will not compromise my safety for your insistence on making me obey.
Also, secondly, there’s a law of physics that says that two material objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Flashing one’s light does not change that law, either, and if I were to move over into a space that is already occupied, research shows that an accident is likely to occur in that situation as well.
Thirdly, people rarely (or never) flash their lights at me at an appropriate distance when the lane’s clear because I would have already moved over in that situation.
Fourthly, in my experience, when I flash my lights at someone else, they nearly all the time don’t move over (and I only do so when I am not tailgating and the right hand lane is clear.) This is because of my third point: namely, if they actually cared about creating a smooth driving experience for everyone, they would have already moved over. When I overtake them on the right, I do signal, however. (And that’s more than I can say for the ~5% of people who move to the right AFTER I have already started to overtake them on the right after SIGNALING so, who then move to the right suddenly without SIGNALING (see point 1) causing me to almost swerve and curse.
Back in the old days (circa early 1980’s) when I was a young driver, people had no problem with a faster driver flashing them as a request to switch lanes. Now it seems like you’re asking them to give up a child or something. I never bother any more because I’m afraid one of these guys (it’s almost always a guy, I don’t know why…) will go all apeshit on me and make my next 20 miles an annoying and dangerous experience.
I don’t know why it’s insulting to ask to free a lane, but apparently it is.
If I were in the left lane going slower than most traffic I wouldn’t be bothered by a friendly light blinky reminder. I am not immune to being lost in thought and maybe 70 was fast enough when I got IN the left lane but isn’t anymore.
What baffles me is rolling merrily along in the lane next to or two away from the passing lane …which I stay out of because I don’t drive a fast car…when someone blares up to my bumper brighting me…with a lane or two of room to pass me on the left.
When and where I got my license passing on the right was a ticketable offense. I don’t recall exactly when that law changed but since it was ingrained early in my education as a driver I am not comfortable passing on the right.
If it’s 55, and you’re going 70, I’m probably pacing you about a second and a half behind.
It doesn’t bother me as much when the people in the left lane are going -slower-, at least I can get by them. It bothers me when they’re going the same fucking speed as the people in the right lane.
Passing on the right -should- be a ticket. But it shouldn’t ever have to be enforced, because driving in the left lane when not passing should be.
Ah, now I’m actually with you both on this one. The four lane stretch of the M2 motorway out of Belfast is fully of crap like this. When the four lanes merge together, there’s a solid white line suggesting that drivers not change lanes immediately, yet they do so, cutting you up ruthlessly.
And then when the lanes start to diverge, despite about a mile and a half of flat, straight motorway to use to change lane, there’s another group of drivers who skip the queues and fucking stop in the middle of the motorway to cut into another lane of traffic at the last minute.
There are two lanes, wankers! In this case, two lanes that Continue. Along. The. Fucking. Highway. Which I know is what you were trying to do because you, Dookie McTard, and all the rest of your friends are inching along at the end of MY lane (an EXIT LANE, for fuck’s sake!) because nobody will let your sorry asses merge back into through traffic.
Why? Because what you’re doing is bottlenecking the highway at this point in the interchange and preventing traffic from continuing to flow smoothly. It’s the same thing everygoddamnday. Some of the poor schmucks behind you understand the phrase EXIT -ONLY- 1 MILE and it’s meaningful to them, but you are stopping us from USING the motherfucking exit the way it was intended to be used and in a timely manner. This only results in more traffic backing up in the only lane left that was actually moving a mile back because none of you want to merge out of the EXIT ONLY lane until the last possible fucking second, which means the thru lanes are already fucking stopped.
I know goddamn well that most of you fucktards travel this particular stretch of highway leading out of the city to the 'burbs because I see you and Fuckwalter Gibralter everyday spewing your sorry-ass lives into your Bluetoothes. And everyfuckingday, you are shocked that people with a metric assload more forethought won’t let you merge. Your righteous indignation impresses no one and, by the way, you need to clean the fucking ass-grease out from under your grimy nails.
Let me make this really clear for you. There are four lanes. The two on the left are for through traffic. I know this because I can read. The two on the right are EXIT ONLY lanes, one for southbound Ridge Ave. and the other for northbound Ridge Ave. It has been this way for many fucking years. If you are not getting off at Ridge Ave., GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE EXIT LANES at the best possible, safest moment, which will NEVER, EVER be at the end of the lane just before it splits off the highway. It wasn’t yesterday and it’s not going to be tomorrow. Remember the bottleneck that foiled you yesterday when you tried to take off some lady’s front fender? Riiight…grab a clue, Princess, and while you’re at it, stop jacking off in my fucking exit lane!
Wow. That does feel pretty good. Go get 'em, Santo!