I recently wrote about overly-aggressive and reckless drivers. Some people may have interpreted that as meaning I’m against speeding, but that’s far from the truth. While you’ll rarely find me going twenty over, I’ll do my best to move and accommodate those who want to play that game. Hey, it lets me drive faster with less worry. When there is a red Corvette going ninety, why would any traffic cop pay attention to a silver Hyundai going eighty-five? Seeing I drive an Accent, he’d probably just write it off as a radar error.
At the same time, while slow and steady may win the race, it should stay the hell out of the left lane. I don’t like passing people on the right, but I do leave that in my arsenal. See that number on the white sign on the side of the road with the big number on it? Add ten to that. If that number sounds scary to you, then please make your stay in the left lane short. Go ahead and pass the guy going sixty in the right lane, but then return to your proper place as soon as convenient.
Thank you.
Dead on!
I don’t know what to add to that…. except when in traffic, watch out for falling burning bunnies.
you better not reveal your car model. Those monkeys are already out to get you. no need to make it easier for them.
No way does the mighty Frank J. drive an Accent. No way.
I’ve often thought there should be a special driver’s license endorsement allowing left-lane travel. It would require you to pass a one question test: What speed is acceptable for driving in the left lane?
Beck,
that speed seems to change across the country, which I learned while driving from SoCal to Atlanta and back.
And yes, I stayed in the right lane when not passing a big rig or a Hyundai ;^)
Good God man! I didn’t learn how to drive like a decent gentleman until I was 10 years older than you are now!
What do they put in the water in Florida?!?
a Hyundai? NO!! Not a foreign car… losing faith in humanity…
Please, dude, get yourself a Chevy.
Normally I would agree with the Chevy, but I just drove across half the country in a Ford Crown Vic and it was the power trip of a lifetime! I was the pace car on I-80, I-76 and I-70. I didn’t get passed once. Of course it was a marked squad car (Police memorial week in D.C.) but NO ONE noticed it didn’t belong to their state police, let alone their state. Amazing how many people will follow a squad car doing 85…
My favorite is when people want to get on to the interstate at about 25 mph. That’s when I get real, what’s that feeling? Oh yea, I get real homicidal.
I-95 through North Carolina is fun. Speed Limit 75 mph!!! Weeeeeee!
I’m with Tom – Ford all the way. I’ve owned Dodge (Charger), Chevy (S-10), Toyota (Tercel), Nissan (Sentra) and Mazda (MPV).
I now own an Expedition and an F150. Never been happier. Ford man for life.
John,
visit us in SoCal for some real “weeeee!” We drive 75 in the far-right lanes and much faster in the left lanes (c:
Speed limit? We don’t need no stinkin’ speed limit!
I get ticked when i’m in the left, going about 80-90, depending on how i feel, and some idiot pulls into the left lane and makes me slow down, when he had no reason for doing so. what i hate more is idiots on their sports bikes cutting me off when they were turning left, and i had the right of way. Dude came within a foot of my front bumper before i could brake, and i almost decided not to, i mean hey, I could have got away with it, and if he didn’t die, it would teach him to be more careful, right?
Great choice of transport, Frank. The Accent being the F-117 of the speeding world (“…he’d probably just write it off as a radar error”). Tom is quite right, though. A Crown Vic will NEVER get pulled. My dad bought one a few years ago and can attest to that (only problem is that, by law, you MUST wear plaid pants in garrish colors with a white belt and white shoes).
Now, living in the south like you (yes, Virginia IS the south), you shouldn’t be alarmed when passing on the right.
Why?
NASCAR.
The Offspring ‘Bad Habit’:
Hey man you know I’m really okay
The gun in my hand will tell you the same
But when I’m in my car
Don’t give me no crap
Cause the slightest thing and I just might snap
When I go driving I stay in my lane
But getting cut off makes me insane
I open the glove box
Reach inside
I’m gonna wreck this f***er’s ride
I guess I got a bad habit
And it ain’t goin’ away Yeah
Well they say the road’s a dangerous place
If you flip me off I’m the danger you’ll face
You drive on my ass
You’re foot’s on the gas
And your next breath is your last
Drivers are rude
Such attitudes
But when I show my piece
Complaints cease
Something’s odd
I feel like I’m God
You stupid dumbshit goddam motherf***er
I open the glove box
Reach inside
I’m gonna wreck this f***er’s ride
Like I said the last time this subject was discussed, spring for the luxury weapons package on that SUV.
– Sidewinders under the running boards
– 50 cals in the grill
– grenade launchers at 45 degrees left and right
– oil, stop stix and ball bearing drops at the rear
Bah, I’ll stay in the left lane as long as I like because there are a lot of vehicles in the right lane that go slower than the speed limit. So as long as I need to pass them up you speedy mcgees can just hang tight.
The road does not exist just for you to go at warp speed to your destination, you have no exclusive right to hang out unmolested in the left lane just because you want to go 85 mph. You are not the king of the road with servants yelling make way for prince Chevyyyy.
Get over yourselves. Going the speed limit will not kill you and will not significantly delay your arrival.
Yes I am and yes I do. So bite me asshat.
alecthemad, you’re funny!
Well of course I meant everyone but you Prince Chevyyyy. I was just saying not everyone is you.
*bow *bow *scrape *scrape
I can’t believe Frank drives such a deathtrap piece of crap for a car. I think this might be the only time he’s ever disappointed me… =(
Frank, it doesn’t matter which one of the “big 3” you choose, but if it didn’t come out of Detroit, it’s not worth owning. (Yeah, yeah, some of the german & swedish cars are cool, but I won’t financially support a socialist government.)
Otherwise – your post was right on.
Wimps, the lot of you! I normally go 130-140, and I’ve been known to hit 150-160 just to cut off people who have been pissng me off.
…mind you, that in km, not miles, so put that in as around 80 MPH, 100 at the high end, for you anachronistic Americans(hey, there are a couple things the rest of the world does better than the US, and metric is one of them).
Frank:
Just be careful, my Dad is 75 and no longer scared of dying; he got religion a few years ago when he saw he wasn’t going to live forever. He’ll crash into you just to get his point across. He drives the biggest freeway cruiser made by Detroit he can find. He doesn’t give a crap about us punks! Thank God we don’t have many old frats like him on the road!
METRICS WILL NOT BE MENTIONED ON MY SITE!!!!
amen Frank, amen
What kind of Communist indoctrination/infiltration is this?
Metric system my ass!
I’m with you on this one, Frank. I bought my first car this week, and it has yet to move at anything below the speed limit. Just because you’re lightning fast doesn’t mean you’re unsafe. Now if only I had someplace to go…