Somehow over the years "drivers" have collectively "unlearned" a basic rule of the road. Not all... but most. Here's the deal, listen up. The left hand lane in ye olden times was called "The Fast Lane." The right hand lane is sometimes referred to by old timers as "The Slow Lane." Here's how the concept works. If you are on the highway and the speed limit is 70 mph and you are driving at the posted speed limit, then you need to keep your fucking car in the right hand (slow) lane. If you want to go faster than the posted speed limit then move you ass over to the left (fast) lane, pass any cars going slower than your speed and then move back over into the "slow lane" again. Rinse and repeat. If you are driving 100 mph. and you pass everyone and you see that the "slow lane" is open then you will want to take advantage of that. Basically the "fast lane" should never be occupied any longer than necessary.
Now this is what I see all the time when I am on the highway traveling. Car in the "fast lane" doing the speed limit or just slightly over... a lot of the time the car will be side by side with the car in the "slow lane". What this does is slow everyone behind them down. Usually I'll get right up their ass, or flick my lights for them to speed up. "Sometimes" this works... but most of the time I am forced to pass these retards in the "slow lane." Which by the way isn't the way it's supposed to work.
The types of people that poke along in the "fast lane" run the gamut. You have the occasional confused senior citizen, who I'll give a pass to, but most offenders are healthy and young and should know better. You have the angry, African American female, with an obvious chip on her shoulder (they also like to walk real slow across streets) talking on her cell phone, soccer mom, high as a kite on Loratab®, yapping on her cell phone, redneck guy pulling a horse trailer talking on his blue tooth headset, young black guy, with his seat kicked waaayyyyy back, dictating corporate meeting notes into his iPhone, etc., etc. I could go on and on. But I won't.
By the way that illustration looks so good because I'm a professional Graphic Designer.
3 comments:
I totally understand this, though I don't agree 100% with everything. What I hate is people that think the fast lane means the "go as fast as you possibly can" lane. Sometimes I'm chugging along and passing the slow lane drivers and some person behind me is practically up my ass because they want to go ridiculously fast. Honestly, if you're going to zip along at 100MPH then you should find your own damn way around everyone.
I also can't stand when people flick their lights at me. It makes me want to slow down. Then again, LA traffic is a different beast and I know when I'm in the fast lane I'm definitely moving along at a reasonably fast speed and whoever is blinking their lights shouldn't have any good reason to. Amazingly, I don't drive like an asshole.
@Mac... well these are interstae highways I'm talking about... no reason to be going exactly the speed limit and stay in the passing lane. Like you said L.A. traffic ain't the same... every lane is the slow lane.
Amen Kenny. We were taught the left lane was called The Passing Lane. Maybe they should bring that back.
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