Left lane woes
03-26-2017, 03:06 PM
#1
Drifting
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Left lane woes
Sigh
So I'm on I-20 just west of ATL heading home. Cruise set at 80..left lane. Not that much faster than everyone else. I'm coming up on a small white SUV. Plenty of room for the SUV to move over. Gave a couple of headlight flashes (daytime) and tapped the break. She moved over. I raised my hand off the wheel to wave 'thank you'.
I got the finger as I passed. Really?!
SMH. I wasn't being a jerk. Didn't ride her a$$. Gave her time to change lanes before I flashed her. I guess she took it personally.
So I'm on I-20 just west of ATL heading home. Cruise set at 80..left lane. Not that much faster than everyone else. I'm coming up on a small white SUV. Plenty of room for the SUV to move over. Gave a couple of headlight flashes (daytime) and tapped the break. She moved over. I raised my hand off the wheel to wave 'thank you'.
I got the finger as I passed. Really?!
SMH. I wasn't being a jerk. Didn't ride her a$$. Gave her time to change lanes before I flashed her. I guess she took it personally.
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03-26-2017, 09:55 PM
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Here is my position....anyone driving the speed limit is doing OK. If someone wants to break the limit - and endanger the lives of my wife and kids and any others - has to play by my rules. If a flasher approaches me and I am BELOW the limit, I gladly move out of the way. But those who want to speed and risk other people's lives? No way. I know many of us are quite capable of driving fast safely, but how does any guy in front of you know that? Speeding is for the track. I track my cars. But on the highway I follow the rules. Those who think they can flash people out of their way and yap on their phones, etc. do NOT have my blessing. The majority of them are dangerously immature.
So, if you see a white C7 in front of you - driving under the posted speed limit - flash me ONCE and I will dive for the right lane. But if I am at or near the posted speed limit - and you signal me to move so you can speed up and endanger my family and others who use that road? You have a fight on your hands.
So, if you see a white C7 in front of you - driving under the posted speed limit - flash me ONCE and I will dive for the right lane. But if I am at or near the posted speed limit - and you signal me to move so you can speed up and endanger my family and others who use that road? You have a fight on your hands.
03-26-2017, 03:11 PM
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Team Owner
Now that is a lady with no class. A finger to the wrong guy could lead to a bit of unwanted road rage.
03-26-2017, 03:59 PM
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I've seen it for a lot less.I do really love being made the bad guy when the other person is in the wrong like her. I just keep my calm, laugh, and move on down the road. As I always conceal carry I don't need to be the aggressor. I've been in enough jails to know I don't want to live there.
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03-26-2017, 04:04 PM
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Burning Brakes
Some people play citizen patrol on the highway. It seems that if they are in the left lane cruising along they own it and no one should need to go faster than they are whether speeding or not. I've had people refuse to move over after several flashes. One guy finally moved over and when I passed him he moves back into the left lane, crawled up on my bumper, continually flashed and honked his horn. I had to nail it to get away, fortunately, his F-150 couldn't keep up.
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03-26-2017, 04:27 PM
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Some people play citizen patrol on the highway. It seems that if they are in the left lane cruising along they own it and no one should need to go faster than they are whether speeding or not. I've had people refuse to move over after several flashes. One guy finally moved over and when I passed him he moves back into the left lane, crawled up on my bumper, continually flashed and honked his horn. I had to nail it to get away, fortunately, his F-150 couldn't keep up.
03-26-2017, 04:30 PM
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The left lane is the passing lane not the fast lane. When I see a left lane rider coming I try to give 'em some right lane time. Down here you can make better time in the right lane because of all the left lane morons.
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03-26-2017, 05:18 PM
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Drifting
It is the law in most states that you are supposed to move to the right for faster traffic to pass -- but it's almost never enforced.
Here in VA, the highways are peppered with "Slower Traffic Keep Right" signs, but most folks honestly never consider themselves to be slower traffic. They just think everyone else drives too fast.
Simple rule of thumb: If you are being passed on the right, then you are driving in the wrong lane.
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03-26-2017, 06:29 PM
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Driving the autobahn is such a pleasure when the 2 or 3 left lanes will all move over for faster vehicles.......
One of my wife's girlfriends always drives in the left lane because her daddy said it was safer there?
One of my wife's girlfriends always drives in the left lane because her daddy said it was safer there?
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03-26-2017, 06:45 PM
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spell it differently...to them it's the PACING lane!! 
03-26-2017, 07:06 PM
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My 3 years in Germany was driving Nirvana. Driving in the left lane while not overtaking is strictly verboten. The Germans do enforce the law.
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03-26-2017, 07:28 PM
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I like to refer to them as left lane zombies...they just cruise along at the same speed as the cars to the right of them holding up traffic and have no clue that they are being idiots. Wish LEOs would start writing some tickets for it. They'd bring in all kinds of revenue, if the would...
03-26-2017, 07:36 PM
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Iam starting to believe they actually have no clue Last week on the AC Expressway on my way to Philadelphia I come up on this car in the left lane as I approach she moves to the right to let me pass After I go by I look in the mirror and she gets right back in the left lane WTF
03-26-2017, 07:42 PM
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I've been driving over 40 years and I have to admit I've never flashed anyone to pass.
It just always seemed like the perfect way to get the reaction you got.
It just always seemed like the perfect way to get the reaction you got.