"Matt Barrow" wrote in message
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"Jay Beckman" wrote in message
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I'll remember you said that after they pull you out of the ditch. evil
g

There is nothing I hate more than someone who won't even momentarilly
lift to give slower traffic a chace to move to the right.

And some (most...like 95%) won't move right unless forced over!!!

Instead, they run up on your ass and just cut hard right to pass. If I
start to move over and someone pulls that ****, if their front left
hasn't passed my right rear, I finish the move to the right.

What were you doing in the left lane in the first place? silly g

Well, I'm already going 10 over and passing someone else. I'm pretty good
at doing the mental geometry to determine if I can get past the guy doing 5
under before the guy behind me catches up going 10 over my speed. Driving
up to northern AZ, it's a pretty common traffic chess match to have to look
a mile or two ahead to see if there is a truck or motorcoach you'll need to
get past before any faster traffic behind catches up.

Some people are really bad at it and will pull into the left lane to pass
someone at only 2 or 3 miles/hr faster without looking to see that someone
is coming up beind them at a much faster pace. It's truly frustrating to
give up 25mph going up a 6% grade just so the Hyundai can get (slowly)
around the Winebago when I could have passed them both easily if only the
Hyundai had looked in the mirror first.


Unlike most of humanity, I actually know how to use my mirrors, I check
them often and I will get out of the way of faster traffic (unless it
will blow my momentum for passing someone else who is even slower...)

Most drivers use mirrors to check their hair :~(

Whal clippers and a #2 guide = not an issue with me.

It used to be that having someone pass you on the right meant YOU got a
ticket (i.e., you're not supposed to use the left lanes for trolling, only
for cruising.

Like I said, I don't cruise in the left lane, I pass in the left lane. It's
the idiots who won't even give you a split second to get *back* into the
right lane before they have to try blow around you on the right. They don't
get an even break in my world.

Jay B