Sunday Quickies

Calendar March 2, 2003 | Posted by Aubrey Turner

Having returned from my little trip (just over 300 miles), I’ve got some road related stuff for a Sunday evening.

  • Note to truckers: Some of us four-wheelers are listening to you.  You should be ashamed of yourself for those nasty things you were saying about the drivers on I-635 on Friday afternoon (around 2:45pm), even if they were all true. smile
  • On the other side of the coin, thanks to the truckers for blocking the obnoxious “last-minute merging fools” on I-20 Eastbound in the construction near Canton.
  • When the sign says “Right lane closed ahead”, it’s just good sense to get in the left lane (or stay there), rather than staying in the right lane (or diving for it).
  • It is good manners (and good karma) to move to the right if your vehicle is not capable of maintaining the posted speed (or if you are not willing to do so).  Speeding up when being passed is bad karma.
  • Why are the worst maintained vehicles always the ones loaded past their rated capacities?  Perhaps there is a correlating factor here…

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2 Comments

  1. Bitter B. says:
    March 3, 2003 at 9:57 pm

    I’m glad I’m not the only one that blogs about drivers that annoy me.  I do have to say that you should enjoy the speed limits and drivers of Texas.  It’s miserable in New England.  They don’t want you to drive over 10 mph, and the drivers are terrible.  Hell, some companies won’t even insure drivers up here because they equate most of New England with evil Boston drivers.  They are called “Mass-holes” for a reason.

  2. Aubrey Turner says:
    March 5, 2003 at 7:45 am

    Here, most of the really slow drivers are encountered on the back roads.  The less likely it is that you can pass them, the slower they go.  I’ve actually seen a few that seem to revel in it.  They take an almost maniacal glee from obstructing other drivers.  Highway 380 between Greenville and Princeton is pretty bad about this.