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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!Celestial.COM!bill
- From: bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell)
- Subject: Re: Why CAN'T people drive 55?!
- Organization: Celestial Software, Mercer Island, WA
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 19:33:49 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.193349.11046@Celestial.COM>
- References: <3040@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> <1550@nazgul.UUCP>
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- In <1550@nazgul.UUCP> bright@nazgul.UUCP (Walter Bright) writes:
-
- :In article <3040@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> hcorbin@uswnvg.com (Harold Corbin) writes:
- :/Why is it that people are always giving me dirty looks when they pass me on
- :/the highway and I'm driving 60 in a 55 MPH zone? I get irritated and angry
- :/EVERY TIME some jerk tailgates me and flashes his/her brights fo rme to
- :/move over justbecause I don't have a TOTAL DISRESPECT for the LAW and I
- :/don't want to drive
- :/75 just to get the hell out of their way!
-
- :It is also the law:
- : Keep right except to pass.
- : Slower traffic keep right.
- :If there is a lane to the right of you, and you are blocking traffic, you
- :are legally required to move over to let them pass.
-
- I generally drive in the far right lane and rarely have to move
- to the left to pass the traffic to my left which is BY DEFINITION
- driving faster than I am. If the left lane bandits were to move
- over, it would then mean that I would have to move to the left
- and subject myself to the scrutiny of the Revenoors (State
- Patrol) who are looking at the left lane for speeders :-).
-
- It's fun when the opportunity comes up to snag one of these left
- lane hogs. I was driving into Issaquah on I-90 several months
- ago and my Escort told me about the radar over the hill so I
- carefully approached the top of the hill in the middle lane
- around 80 timing it so the character in the Toyota in the left
- lane who was doing 50 was the first one to appear over the crest
- (by which time I was doing 55 :-). He had the strangest look on
- his face when the cop pulled him over.
-
- Bill
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