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“Keep Right, Pass on the Left.” What’s so Difficult to Understand?

Now that I am back to driving to work several days a week I find myself angered and annoyed with how often I encounter highway drivers coasting in the left lane. And this is sometimes on roads with signs reminding drivers to use the left lane for passing.

by Anonymousreply 34March 17, 2025 12:42 AM

Miss, with all due respect, I have my own problems.

by Anonymousreply 1March 16, 2025 7:12 PM

Don't come to Seattle, OP. People here will drive the speed limit while sitting in the left lane. It creates a Mario Kart situation where everyone is always passing and weaving on either side of each other. It's chaos.

by Anonymousreply 2March 16, 2025 7:20 PM

It’s not like it’s hard to get a drivers license in the US. Did you ever meet anyone who couldn’t pass the test?

by Anonymousreply 3March 16, 2025 7:25 PM

Since Drivers Ed is no longer offered in many public schools, I'm sure many young drivers today don't understand the concept.

by Anonymousreply 4March 16, 2025 7:35 PM

R3, you’re assuming the have a drivers license. There are tons of unlicensed drivers on the road.

by Anonymousreply 5March 16, 2025 8:04 PM

And then you have those drivers who STAY in the left lane (after passing everyone in the right lane) - while the right lane is clear/empty, yet they never get over in the right lane like they expect others to do.

If I'm in the left lane and going 10mph over the posted limit, and someone boils up behind me to get over so they can go faster, I DON'T get over and I WON'T, especially when there are other vehicles in the right lane going slower. So there!

by Anonymousreply 6March 16, 2025 8:13 PM

Everyone forgot how to drive during Covid when nobody left the house for a year.

by Anonymousreply 7March 16, 2025 8:21 PM

I don’t even want to think about that, R5.

by Anonymousreply 8March 16, 2025 8:22 PM

It makes my ass work button holes backwards too op

by Anonymousreply 9March 16, 2025 8:54 PM

R6 ha ha if I were on your tail you’d sure as hell move over. I do not mess around on the highway.

by Anonymousreply 10March 16, 2025 8:55 PM

Have fun getting sued after you rear end someone on the freeway, r10.

by Anonymousreply 11March 16, 2025 8:59 PM

Or the people that floor it on the freeway onramp, then slow down to 30 mph to merge, forcing those behind them to slam on the brakes.

by Anonymousreply 12March 16, 2025 9:06 PM

Have fun in the recovery ward r11

by Anonymousreply 13March 16, 2025 9:12 PM

You don't think the type of accident that would send me to the hospital would also injure you, r13? You shouldn't put other people's lives at risk because you want to get to Denny's 20 seconds faster. Fingers crossed the next person you tailgate has a mental illness and a concealed weapons permit. The world would be better off. Ha ha.

by Anonymousreply 14March 16, 2025 9:17 PM

Judy get your POS car back in the right hand lane MOFO r14

by Anonymousreply 15March 16, 2025 9:33 PM

I have a lead foot, but I don't feel like it is my job to enforce the speed limit either. If I am in the left lane and someone wants to go faster, I move over.

by Anonymousreply 16March 16, 2025 9:56 PM

[quote] You shouldn't put other people's lives at risk because you want to get to Denny's 20 seconds faster.

Mmmmmmm... Denny's, twenty seconds faster.... *drools*

by Anonymousreply 17March 16, 2025 10:14 PM

Move over, bitch!

by Anonymousreply 18March 16, 2025 10:15 PM

Untrained, selfish, angry, passive-aggressive zombies of America. Whatever they're doing and wherever they are.

It's not political, it's not racial, it's not ageist or economic or sexist or regional. (Except the traffic in the ring around DC is more civil. But I don't live there.).

It's how people of all ilks are behaving as everyone ignores the great national crisis we are in. I have hags pushing me out of the way in grocery stores, people ignoring red lights, which seem to mean "speed faster," gunshots almost nightly from cars trolling the neighborhoods, and children on my lawn would be fine, but 200 dogs a day are let loose on the property, from the canine dung heaps that are left.

by Anonymousreply 19March 16, 2025 10:29 PM

At least you have a house?

by Anonymousreply 20March 16, 2025 11:04 PM

R19 is Freida Claxton

by Anonymousreply 21March 16, 2025 11:25 PM

Is it still common knowledge that if you are behind someone in the left lane, you should flash your high beams in their rear view mirror so they know you want them to move over?

by Anonymousreply 22March 16, 2025 11:48 PM

Stay off the roads grandma

by Anonymousreply 23March 16, 2025 11:49 PM

And the solid line means don't cross over. Like when I'm on an onramp to a highway and the line is solid for a bit and the car BEHIND me cuts over the solid line and then beeps at me when I try to merge into his lane.

by Anonymousreply 24March 16, 2025 11:54 PM

Nothing worse than a frantic driver. Just calm your tits, you sad fat whore, and stop pretending you have anywhere important to be or anyone who's desperate to see your sad ass, now or ever.

by Anonymousreply 25March 16, 2025 11:55 PM

[quote]People here will drive the speed limit while sitting in the left lane.

Does the left lane have a different speed limit than the right lane? Or does the speed limit not apply to the left lane?

by Anonymousreply 26March 17, 2025 12:01 AM

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by Anonymousreply 27March 17, 2025 12:12 AM

Many times I pass them on the right, move back to the left lane in front of them and then sloooowwww way down to make sure they get the point. Everyone should do that and teach them their idiocy. You gotta at least honk and flip them off as you pass on the right or they'll never change.

by Anonymousreply 28March 17, 2025 12:14 AM

R28 is texting and running from the cops.

by Anonymousreply 29March 17, 2025 12:18 AM

You're from Florida, aren't you, R28?

I always tell people I really learned how to drive on the Autobahn when I was in the Army. I also joke that we should send every American to Germany to drive on the Autobahn for a week, and if they [italic]live[/italic], they can have a driver's license.

And R22, that's certainly true on the Autobahn, but if you do it here in the US, the person in front of you is just as likely to tap/slam on their breaks as to get over. If you rear-end someone in the US, technically it's always your fault because you were "not in control of your vehicle," and people know that. So they'd be punishing you if you rear-ended them.

So I wouldn't try the flashing headlights trick -- you may live to regret it.

by Anonymousreply 30March 17, 2025 12:22 AM

More annoying is when you are slightly above the speed limit and in the right lane,but someone is tailgating you. I always slow down to the minimum legal speed.

by Anonymousreply 31March 17, 2025 12:35 AM

R32 There is no way someone has to slam on their breaks if the car in front of them where speeding. I suspect you are one of the cunts the ho catch an attitude when someone speeds over in the right lane to overtake you and then gradually increase your speed to tailgate. Well cunt, you didn’t want to go faster before so why the fuck speed up now. And if you hit my shit I’m suing you for vehicular damage and pain and suffering.

by Anonymousreply 32March 17, 2025 12:37 AM

What about the cunts that drive like Ms Daisy below the speed limit and then once they see a yellow light they floor it to make it through. Dumb ass bitches.

by Anonymousreply 33March 17, 2025 12:39 AM

I live in Florida, where there's a good possibility you'll get shot in any road rage incident, so you know what I do if I'm being tailgated by an asshole? If I possibly can, I either 1) pull over and let them pass me, or 2) scoot as far to the right as I can and motion for them to go around me.

Of course, these things are easier to do when you're on a motorcycle.

by Anonymousreply 34March 17, 2025 12:42 AM
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