Weird Bits and Snippets

 

1. In many states it is illegal to be in any lane besides the right save for passing. The ticket is called ‘Basic Rule’ violation. If you want a real trauma ... drive between Ohio and New Jersey on the freeway and watch 30 semis doing just that. Long gone are the days of ‘drivers’ ... they are refered to as ‘operators’ now.

   And if you want a real tickle ... ask the next 10 people you meet if they can drive a ‘stick’. Maybe 2 can, and if you pose that question in a blue state ... none.

   Posted by Steel Turman       04/05/2005  at  07:15 AM  



2. Retards living in the passing lane? We have the same problem in the UK. See the Middle Lane Morons forum. I also find that I am plagued by Formation Flyers and Blind Spot Squatters. I’m driving in the correct lane, an MLM creeps up behind me in the middle lane and then matches my speed on my rear quarter. This makes life difficult when I’m approaching slower traffic in front. To avoid being boxed in, I have to slow, cut around his back, overtake both of them and loop around to the correct lane again. It is also mandatory to make the “wanker” sign as you go by.     

   Posted by DWMF       04/05/2005  at  10:37 AM  



3. Cell phone yammerers - if yer gots ta talk, use a hands-free.  Otherwise, hang up and drive.

   Driving buddies - do not, under any circumstances, pace me from the next lane over.  You wanna drive the same speed as me?  Get in the same lane as me.

   Centerline slowpokes - Don’t drive 45 in a 65 mph area, especially not if you’re in the center lane.  That’s called a traffic disruption, and it’s dangerous.

   Tailgaters - I don’t want to wear Geo Metro up the tailpipe of my truck.  Back off.

   But there’s one that seems unique to this area - the guy who refuses to tie down his load.  I’ve no idea how many mattresses have ended up on the highway out here, but it’s a bunch.  Stupider are the guys who think that having someone sitting on a mattress in the back of a pickup will hold the mattress down.  Every year or two, someone dies that way, but they still do it.

   Posted by JSThane       04/05/2005  at  11:46 AM  



4. Re: the Texas oil man in Israel - I b’lieve it was Golda Meir {one helluva strong woman} who made the comment, “Moses wandered 40 years in the Middle East, and establishes Israel - the ONLY place in the Middle East that doesn’t have oil!” {For the Biblical scholars, I KNOW the accepted wisdom is that Moses never entered the Promised Land.}

   Posted by Diamond Mair       04/05/2005  at  01:39 PM  



5. You can get up to 65 on a freeway? WOW! Don’t have that too much in SoCal...but you CAN get up above 80 on a short, NARROW, barely-paved, blind-interction road less than a mile from a school, downhill, and then stop...all in less than a half-mile…

   Yes, I have done that. And no, I wasn’t driving. ‘Twas a little Mercedes, and it was a stick. In California, people can drive stick. Of course, isn’t really a blue state - more like a few huge blue cities. All of them happen to be by the ocean…

   Posted by Dac       04/05/2005  at  05:25 PM  



6. Here in NZ and what I saw in Australia, they obey the “right lane for passing only” rule fairly well (since it’s drive on the left-hand side of the road).  That’s a good thing on these twisty 2-laners where you have passing lanes (there are no interstates/freeways outside the big cities).  Slow ones stay left and the others pass, pulling left immediately, giving others a chance to pass them before the passing lane runs out.

   Posted by Illegitimi Non Carborundum       04/05/2005  at  08:18 PM  



7. That is basically how it works in the mountains here, and in California. I would assume it would be the same in the rest of the USA, too. Well, with changes to consider being on the right side of the road.

   Posted by Dac       04/05/2005  at  10:35 PM  



8. Yeah, the left lane idiots abound here in Ohio. They don’t like it when they tell me about getting a ticket for the practice in New York. I just laugh at them.

   The worst time is just before a holiday like Thanksgiving when they all hit the road. When they see their exit and can’t get across the traffic that has built up from passing them on the right, they STOP!!!

   Don’t ticket them, shoot them cleanly in the head and leave ‘em at the side of the road as an example to the others.

   Posted by StinKerr       04/06/2005  at  12:28 AM  

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