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Duke
Duke SuperDork
7/26/10 8:43 a.m.

Please get out of the left lane. Thank you.

That is all.

PS - and stay out.

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/26/10 8:50 a.m.

Can you forward that to Minnesota for me?

NGTD
NGTD HalfDork
7/26/10 8:53 a.m.

... and Ontario Canada

Woody
Woody GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/26/10 9:46 a.m.

Experience tells me that this is not going to happen.

4cylndrfury
4cylndrfury SuperDork
7/26/10 9:49 a.m.

...and all the shiny-happytards who clog the exit only lane at 11mph under the speed limit in rush hour traffic who move over 19 feet from the ramp because THE GIANT YELLOW BANNER THAT SAYS EXIT BERKELEYING ONLY WAS NOT EXCITING ENOUGH FOR YOU TO NOTICE IT WOOAAARRHFGHGHGH....

mndsm
mndsm HalfDork
7/26/10 10:49 a.m.

Don't get me started on those shiny happy people. Whatever happened to common courtesy and getting the hell out of my way?

fastmiata
fastmiata Reader
7/26/10 1:42 p.m.

I thought it was going to be a rant against the greatest police state in the south.

ncjay
ncjay Reader
7/26/10 1:44 p.m.

I live near Charlotte. Coming back from the UTCC at VIR I believe I passed more cars on the right than I did on the left. Don't know why so many people think they are fine driving at 60 mph in the left lane, but they all need to be shot. It's just plain crazy. 4 lanes of interstate and darn few people know what the right 2 lanes are for. Slow Traffic Keep Right. Whatever happened to those signs?

EastCoastMojo
EastCoastMojo GRM+ Memberand SuperDork
7/26/10 2:13 p.m.

I still dislike the shiny happy people who STOP in the berkeleying straight lane because they missed their turn. TURN THE berkeley AROUND SHINYHAPPYPERSON OR I WILL ANIHILATE YOU!!!

Ahem. Thank you.

Grtechguy
Grtechguy SuperDork
7/26/10 2:42 p.m.

Same could be said for most people in Michigan. I was actually told by a woman that she drives in the left lane because it's smoother

JeepinMatt
JeepinMatt Dork
7/26/10 2:45 p.m.
fastmiata wrote: I thought it was going to be a rant against the greatest police state in the south.

Eh?

MrJoshua
MrJoshua SuperDork
7/26/10 3:15 p.m.

The New interstate lane system:

Right lane-entering, exiting, passing -30mph to + 20 mph of speed limit

Center lane-Steady speed -10mph and up to speed limit

Left lane-speed limit and up to 5mph over speed limit. (cruise control mandatory)

nutherjrfan
nutherjrfan Reader
7/26/10 3:25 p.m.

L.S.U. is gonna have the whole state feeling like a truck done run it over twice come Sept. when we spank those acc weenies unc miami, ga tech, now we feast on the tar heels.

Buckhead
Buckhead Reader
7/26/10 3:39 p.m.

I assume you were in the triangle when this happened?

Duke
Duke SuperDork
7/26/10 4:09 p.m.

Actually I was driving through Maryland, both southbound and northbound. Every time I worked my way through a clotted tangle of cars and finally broke into some free space, there was some self-righteous and/or oblivious dickweed from North Carolina at the front of it, pacing along in the left lane at ambient traffic speed -10 mph.

mndsm
mndsm Dork
7/26/10 4:12 p.m.

I think I need to install push bars on the front of my car. I'm guessing with a lot of these cars, they're really trying, but just can't get up to speed. I suspect a little bump draft will help em out. You know, for courtesy and all.

spitfirebill
spitfirebill Dork
7/26/10 4:14 p.m.
Grtechguy wrote: I was actually told by a woman that she drives in the left lane because it's smoother

It's twue, its twue.

spitfirebill
spitfirebill Dork
7/26/10 4:19 p.m.
Duke wrote: Actually I was driving through Maryland, both southbound and northbound. Every time I worked my way through a clotted tangle of cars and finally broke into some free space, there was some self-righteous and/or oblivious dickweed from North Carolina at the front of it, pacing along in the left lane at ambient traffic speed -10 mph.

We had an SC state trooper come talk to us at work a few months ago. He said they ticket slow drivers in the left lane. He even ticketed a driver going the posted speed limit in the left lane and blocking traffic.

Lastly... same trooper ticketed a woman who was actively breast feeding her infant as she drove. He said the child smiled as he walked up and milk spilled out its mouth.

Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
7/26/10 4:21 p.m.

Traveling out West on Interstate 90 or 94, odds are the toolbag berkleying up the left lane is from Illinois. 9 times out of 10.

wbjones
wbjones Dork
7/26/10 4:22 p.m.
Grtechguy wrote: I was actually told by a woman that she drives in the left lane because it's smoother

there is a section of road (I 40 ) between Hickory and Statesville that is so rough that I do run the left lane because it's smoother ( notice I only said smoother) it's still rough as E36M3 ... but I do tend to run along about 80 and if anyone catches me I (as much as I hate it) do move over long enough for them to pass...

the DOT has repaved damn near every foot of I 40 from Tenn line to beyond Greensboro EXCEPT that 20 mi section...with a a-x / track day suspension there is no way you could stay in the right lane at any speed greater than 35 - 40

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand New Reader
7/26/10 4:43 p.m.

As a transplant from NY to NC, I think that Maryland confuses the hell out of folks from NC because it is the first state with toll roads they hit on the way North. They're in such a rage-induced fugue state from having to pay to drive that they really don't even realize they're in a car any more.

Spinout007
Spinout007 GRM+ Memberand Dork
7/26/10 6:27 p.m.
spitfirebill wrote:
Duke wrote: Actually I was driving through Maryland, both southbound and northbound. Every time I worked my way through a clotted tangle of cars and finally broke into some free space, there was some self-righteous and/or oblivious dickweed from North Carolina at the front of it, pacing along in the left lane at ambient traffic speed -10 mph.
We had an SC state trooper come talk to us at work a few months ago. He said they ticket slow drivers in the left lane. He even ticketed a driver going the posted speed limit in the left lane and blocking traffic. Lastly... same trooper ticketed a woman who was actively breast feeding her infant as she drove. He said the child smiled as he walked up and milk spilled out its mouth.

WTF? And I thought texting and driving was bad.....

Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
7/26/10 7:34 p.m.
Spinout007 wrote:
spitfirebill wrote:
Duke wrote: Actually I was driving through Maryland, both southbound and northbound. Every time I worked my way through a clotted tangle of cars and finally broke into some free space, there was some self-righteous and/or oblivious dickweed from North Carolina at the front of it, pacing along in the left lane at ambient traffic speed -10 mph.
We had an SC state trooper come talk to us at work a few months ago. He said they ticket slow drivers in the left lane. He even ticketed a driver going the posted speed limit in the left lane and blocking traffic. Lastly... same trooper ticketed a woman who was actively breast feeding her infant as she drove. He said the child smiled as he walked up and milk spilled out its mouth.
WTF? And I thought texting and driving was bad.....

What happens to Jr. when the airbag deploys?

wbjones
wbjones Dork
7/28/10 7:20 p.m.

cushioned between 2 air bags ?

fastmiata
fastmiata Reader
7/28/10 7:59 p.m.

There is a stretch of I-59 between Chattanooga and Birmingham where it is SOP for regular traffic to run in the left lane until you need to pass in which case you pull into the right lane. It is probably the roughest stretch of interstate I have ever seen. It is the only excuse to be a left-lane bandit.

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