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      06-29-2015, 10:22 PM   #1
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People not using the passing lane to pass retarded?

Nothing more annoying that having someone not using the passing lane to pass and blocking the lane. What are these people doing? Are they retarded?
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On my way to work it's always people with Mass plates for some reason. Very odd phenomenon.
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You can get a ticket for blocking the fast lane in GA. New law just passed a year or so ago.
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i wish they would give ticket to people sitting in the passing lane in CA

it's as annoying as having to brake hard for people who decide to make a turn at the last minute w/o using blinkers
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Guys stop whining. Come to Washington for a week and you'll know what pain really is.
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Obviously none of you have ever spent time in Florida...The left lane is permanently occupied by 80 year-olds with their blinker on driving 20 MPH slower than all other drivers...
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Left lane is always a disaster because frightened drivers feel safe nice and far away from the big scary trucks and only have one lane of fast-moving cars to avoid on the right. Normally the rearview is just aimed at their face for quick teeth-cleaning or nose-picking
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On my way to work it's always people with Mass plates for some reason.
Yes, they are called massholes.
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And how about all those pricks driving BMWs! What's up with that?!
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i feel bad if i'm in the left lane and not speeding. lol i feel the need to pass and quickly gtfo to let anyone with the desire to go faster than me pass.

i think part of it is drivers education. there's not enough emphasis on that lane actually being a passing lane.
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I thought it was legal in the US to pass on the right? It's not in Europe, so the left hand lane always needs to remain free and open, unless you're passing yourself. Once you have passed, you must move to the furthermost right line, traffic permitting.
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I thought it was legal in the US to pass on the right? It's not in Europe, so the left hand lane always needs to remain free and open, unless you're passing yourself. Once you have passed, you must move to the furthermost right line, traffic permitting.
I worked in Germany for four years. The one time I finally snapped and passed a car to the right, I glared over as I passed and it was two US GI's just tooling along. Made me laugh that of course it was Americans jamming up the Autobahn.
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I just use the shoulder it allways open
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You can get a ticket for blocking the fast lane in GA. New law just passed a year or so ago.
We NEED that in WA.
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Guys stop whining. Come to Washington for a week and you'll know what pain really is.
Exactly, both WA and OR have the worst left lane offenders.
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Only a few states have laws requiring slower traffic to move right.

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We have that here in Ontario. Does not seem to help much.
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Exactly, both WA and OR have the worst left lane offenders.
Yup, and anyone has yet to explain me why do three cars with nothing in front of them take three lanes. I feel like a dick when I flash them my lights but I truly don't understand how drivers here seem to pay zero attention to their mirrors. To quote the really scary man who was my driving teacher: " if someone is closing in on you while you're on the left lane, take that as a hint that you are on the wrong lane. Don't make others pass from the right, move your car away".

He was a great teacher.i still sometimes try to imitate his nose movements when someone has kindly decided to block my lane.
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You can get a ticket for blocking the fast lane in GA. New law just passed a year or so ago.
Isn't it amazing, that people are so. freaking. stupid., that you need to make a law in order to get someone to do what they should be doing in the first place? If there's one thing that I cannot stand in the United States, it's the drivers. FFS, some of these people are just so stupid and clueless!
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Exactly, both WA and OR have the worst left lane offenders.
Obviously, you haven't driven around the DC Metro area....the Nation's capital for the most brain dead drivers of which we have a good representation of other moronic drivers from other countries.
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On my way to work it's always people with Mass plates for some reason. Very odd phenomenon.
Hey now, this very am it was a NH plate doing this on the left lane...
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