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Re: So, I'm out practicing my lane discipline... -
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"dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:lMKdnV69Q6pHmNjbnZ2dnUVZ_r6vnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com: I think I should be allowed to drive at whatever speed I feel like, so long as I'm not causing any safety hazards. Then you would become a hazard to those who are not as good a driver as you obviously think you are, and who don't want to drive as fast as you do. A car traveling much faster than the traffic flow IS a safety hazard. |
where there is traffic to flow.
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"Spike" <veeger (AT) snowcrest (DOT) net> wrote in message news:jkka435av4oq9j4mnfsi4fc68klgl99lln (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:11:21 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com wrote: You know, driving home on the highway at lunchtime, sticking predominantly to the center lane of three. Use my turn signal to move left to pass, use it again to return to the center lane. Good, solid lane discipline. Then the highway goes from three lanes to two, and I naturally come upon a clump of about 10 drivers clogging up both lanes ahead. Let's see... 10 cars, all doing exactly 61mph in a 55 zone. A quick swipe at my cellphone's built-in calculator, I can see that the 85 percentile in this bunch demands that we travel at 61mph. Well, that's somewhat above the posted speed limit sign (the REAL one, the one by the side of the road) that says 55, but it's still not good enough for me. It occurs to me that I must be in the top 5 percentile or above. When the highway finally opens up ahead of me, I set a pace between 80 and 85. That's my personal comfort zone, it's where I feel safe and confident. I also wonder why I should have to be governed by 85% of the slow-ass mother fuckers on the road. That's not why I bought a Mustang, just to go with the flow. If I wanted that, I'd drive a Honda. I've always used the speed limit signs as nothing more than a guide. On an open highway, I am limited only by visibility, aerodynamics, mood, and the number of possible hiding places for state troopers. I understand that some drivers (probably a small percent) actually adhere to those numbers along the roadway, but the majority does between 10 and 20mph above that. Again, that's not good enough for me. I think I should be allowed to drive at whatever speed I feel like, so long as I'm not causing any safety hazards. The dwight law. Yeah, I like that. dwight Did you take into account what your actions would do????? Someone must be the one who sets the rate of flow..... :0) Well, now, that's an interesting point. (And I'm glad that YOU got it, since a couple others missed the humor). If the 85percenters are all doing, say, 70mph, and I come flying by at 120, does my speed then increase the 85% statistically, or am I just an anomaly that is discarded as an aberration? (a la the olympics, where you throw out the high and the low, then take the average of the remaining scores) The other thing I've noticed (and this goes back to my Thoughts column) is that the majority (vast majority) of the really aggressive drivers around here have a maximum speed limit, somewhere around 80. When someone behind me is being a real dick (and always in heavy traffic), accelerating to 85 once the roadway clears up leaves them far behind. 80 seems to be the magic number. Therefore, in order to avoid aggressive drivers and maintain safe distance between myself and them, I should really be driving at 90. dwight Now, here in California, the aggressive drivers are easy to spot... |
diving for the break down lane.
And how they missed the humor of the piece, I don't know... LOL
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Your thinking seems to be one-dimensional. |
"ME" oriented. Let ME get to where I want to go as fast as possible and
without a scratch on my car. You have shown absolutely no empathy or
respect for anyone else who has the same rights to use the road as you do.
Drivers like you are the reason speed limits exist. Obviously, you lack
self control.
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"dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com> wrote in news:cNadnQXM_qhKINjbnZ2dnUVZ_qCmnZ2d (AT) comcast (DOT) com: Your thinking seems to be one-dimensional. No, YOUR'S is the one dimensional thinking. Everything you have said is all "ME" oriented. Let ME get to where I want to go as fast as possible and without a scratch on my car. You have shown absolutely no empathy or respect for anyone else who has the same rights to use the road as you do. |
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Drivers like you are the reason speed limits exist. Obviously, you lack self control. |
respect for the otherguy...
dwight
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:11:21 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com wrote: :>You know, driving home on the highway at lunchtime, sticking predominantly :>to the center lane of three. Use my turn signal to move left to pass, use it :>again to return to the center lane. Good, solid lane discipline. : :>Then the highway goes from three lanes to two, and I naturally come upon a :>clump of about 10 drivers clogging up both lanes ahead. Ah yes, "The Turd Train", made up of .... well "turds" who's sole objective is to form a slow moving pack so they can impede the smooth flow of traffic wherever they roam. |
Somebody probably wasn't happy doing 59, so he moved left to pass. At 61.
Naturally, when 61 goes to pass 59, traffic will be coming up behind the two
of them pretty quick. Now you have a PACK, the left lane doing 61, the right
59.
Eventually - like turtles having sex - 61 is going to actually pass 59 with
enough room to move back over to the right. When that happens, the pack
breaks up like a backed up toilet when the Master Plumber plunger is
applied.
I developed a good level of patience, when it dawned on me that I'm the
fastest driver on the road and every other driver is slower than me.
Everyone else is a slow-ass mother fucker to me, whether they're the only
other car on the road or a group of cars known as "traffic."
And that's why, unless drivers are judged one at a time, any system of speed
limitation you care to install is going to be counter to my interests. And,
since I already don't agree with any limit on speed, I can just ignore all
of it.
dwight law
dwight
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Drivers like you are the reason speed limits exist. Obviously, you lack self control. |
apparently you are why there are speed limits, otherwise *we* would have
an Autobahn as well.
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"The problem is almost certainly a big spider's nest. I
can't wash my hair in the sink anymore, because of the
paralyzing fear that a mutated, poisonous sink overflow
spider may leap from the depths of the overflow and
into my upturned nose."
- Flaming Poultice
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:55:28 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com wrote: :>"Sarah Czepiel" <ninety7gt (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote in message :>news  tbc43ldatr16cgkqipfs7ogbpojqj32h5 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...:>> On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:11:21 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com :>> wrote: : :>> :>You know, driving home on the highway at lunchtime, sticking :>> predominantly :>> :>to the center lane of three. Use my turn signal to move left to pass, :>> use it :>> :>again to return to the center lane. Good, solid lane discipline. :>> : :>> :>Then the highway goes from three lanes to two, and I naturally come upon :>> a :>> :>clump of about 10 drivers clogging up both lanes ahead. : :>> Ah yes, "The Turd Train", made up of .... well "turds" who's sole :>> objective is to form a slow moving pack so they can impede the smooth :>> flow of traffic wherever they roam. : :>I don't see it that way. : :>Somebody probably wasn't happy doing 59, so he moved left to pass. At 61. :>Naturally, when 61 goes to pass 59, traffic will be coming up behind the two :>of them pretty quick. Now you have a PACK, the left lane doing 61, the right :>59. : :>Eventually - like turtles having sex - 61 is going to actually pass 59 with :>enough room to move back over to the right. When that happens, the pack :>breaks up like a backed up toilet when the Master Plumber plunger is :>applied. : :>I developed a good level of patience, when it dawned on me that I'm the :>fastest driver on the road and every other driver is slower than me. :>Everyone else is a slow-ass mother fucker to me, whether they're the only :>other car on the road or a group of cars known as "traffic." : :>And that's why, unless drivers are judged one at a time, any system of speed :>limitation you care to install is going to be counter to my interests. And, :>since I already don't agree with any limit on speed, I can just ignore all :>of it. : :>dwight law : :>dwight : One flaw in your thinking dwight, you assume drivers are going to eventually move over to the right or keep right when they're driving slow(er). While that might be the norm in other states, it is not a common practice here in Maryland or DC. The Turd Train gets bunched up in a pack and they won't yield or move over for anyone. Heck, DC drivers don't even yield for emergency vehicles. In order to get around the Turd Train you have to serpentine back and forth from lane to lane until you work your way up to the front and can break away and get ahead of them. I still maintain my Rhode Island DL but have been told there is no MD law for " keeping right" or yielding to faster traffic and consequently I routinely get stuck in traffic coming out of DC. Trucks are notorious for blocking the left lanes. It can take me 2 hours to travel a little over 50 miles one way into DC and back home again and that's with no accidents or the inevitable road construction. Going to work at 5 am and we're all going 75 to 80 mph in all lanes. Come 8:30, 9:00 am and the trucks and the turds are out and everything slows down. Friends who have lived in this area longer than I tell me this is typical MD and DC driving behavior. The main road I travel from southern MD (Route 5) to just before the main gate at Andrews AFB is only a two lane highway and it has to handle a hellacious amount of commuter traffic. Now add in the Turd factor and it's a giant clusterfrock 24/7 M-F. Amazingly it's the weekend traffic which is actually bearable. YMMV in Pa, but from where I sit, too often in stop and go traffic, it's the pack of cars making up the turd trains which hold up the rest of us. |
speed we all must travel. The more traffic, the slower we all go. That's why
comedians have been making fun of the term "rush hour" as long as I've been
alive. That's a long time.
When things get backed up like that, I tend to just sit back and relax. No
point getting agitated. I'm not big on jumping lanes, either, since it never
seems to make any difference. Usually, when I have jumped lanes, the new
lane suddenly becomes the slow lane and the lane I've just come from speeds
up. Never fails. So I just stay put until things work themselves out.
It takes me 45 to 50 minutes to get home from work, and that's 16 miles. I'm
averaging 21mph. And this is on the back roads, because the highway is one
very long parking lot, and thus useless to me (especially when I'm driving
TFrog with the stick).
dwight
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"Sarah Czepiel" <ninety7gt (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote in message news:3upc43doclks72jiji97g40vrhs2h8i5rg (AT) 4ax (DOT) com... On Sat, 12 May 2007 18:55:28 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com wrote: :>"Sarah Czepiel" <ninety7gt (AT) cox (DOT) net> wrote in message :>news tbc43ldatr16cgkqipfs7ogbpojqj32h5 (AT) 4ax (DOT) com...:>> On Fri, 11 May 2007 20:11:21 -0400, "dwight" <tfrog93 (AT) gEEmail (DOT) com :>> wrote: : :>> :>You know, driving home on the highway at lunchtime, sticking :>> predominantly :>> :>to the center lane of three. Use my turn signal to move left to pass, :>> use it :>> :>again to return to the center lane. Good, solid lane discipline. :>> : :>> :>Then the highway goes from three lanes to two, and I naturally come upon :>> a :>> :>clump of about 10 drivers clogging up both lanes ahead. : :>> Ah yes, "The Turd Train", made up of .... well "turds" who's sole :>> objective is to form a slow moving pack so they can impede the smooth :>> flow of traffic wherever they roam. : :>I don't see it that way. : :>Somebody probably wasn't happy doing 59, so he moved left to pass. At 61. :>Naturally, when 61 goes to pass 59, traffic will be coming up behind the two :>of them pretty quick. Now you have a PACK, the left lane doing 61, the right :>59. : :>Eventually - like turtles having sex - 61 is going to actually pass 59 with :>enough room to move back over to the right. When that happens, the pack :>breaks up like a backed up toilet when the Master Plumber plunger is :>applied. : :>I developed a good level of patience, when it dawned on me that I'm the :>fastest driver on the road and every other driver is slower than me. :>Everyone else is a slow-ass mother fucker to me, whether they're the only :>other car on the road or a group of cars known as "traffic." : :>And that's why, unless drivers are judged one at a time, any system of speed :>limitation you care to install is going to be counter to my interests. And, :>since I already don't agree with any limit on speed, I can just ignore all :>of it. : :>dwight law : :>dwight : One flaw in your thinking dwight, you assume drivers are going to eventually move over to the right or keep right when they're driving slow(er). While that might be the norm in other states, it is not a common practice here in Maryland or DC. The Turd Train gets bunched up in a pack and they won't yield or move over for anyone. Heck, DC drivers don't even yield for emergency vehicles. In order to get around the Turd Train you have to serpentine back and forth from lane to lane until you work your way up to the front and can break away and get ahead of them. I still maintain my Rhode Island DL but have been told there is no MD law for " keeping right" or yielding to faster traffic and consequently I routinely get stuck in traffic coming out of DC. Trucks are notorious for blocking the left lanes. It can take me 2 hours to travel a little over 50 miles one way into DC and back home again and that's with no accidents or the inevitable road construction. Going to work at 5 am and we're all going 75 to 80 mph in all lanes. Come 8:30, 9:00 am and the trucks and the turds are out and everything slows down. Friends who have lived in this area longer than I tell me this is typical MD and DC driving behavior. The main road I travel from southern MD (Route 5) to just before the main gate at Andrews AFB is only a two lane highway and it has to handle a hellacious amount of commuter traffic. Now add in the Turd factor and it's a giant clusterfrock 24/7 M-F. Amazingly it's the weekend traffic which is actually bearable. YMMV in Pa, but from where I sit, too often in stop and go traffic, it's the pack of cars making up the turd trains which hold up the rest of us. It's the same all over, as far as I've seen. The slowest car determines the speed we all must travel. The more traffic, the slower we all go. That's why comedians have been making fun of the term "rush hour" as long as I've been alive. That's a long time. When things get backed up like that, I tend to just sit back and relax. No point getting agitated. I'm not big on jumping lanes, either, since it never seems to make any difference. Usually, when I have jumped lanes, the new lane suddenly becomes the slow lane and the lane I've just come from speeds up. Never fails. So I just stay put until things work themselves out. It takes me 45 to 50 minutes to get home from work, and that's 16 miles. I'm averaging 21mph. And this is on the back roads, because the highway is one very long parking lot, and thus useless to me (especially when I'm driving TFrog with the stick). dwight |
Wallymart. You spot a short line and somebody invariably is using
welfare coupons.... or they forgot something.... so you spot another
line that's moving and you slide on over, just in time for it to bog
down. You look at the line you were just in and the cashier is
standing there doing nothing, so, you slip out of line and head back
over just as the cashier turns off the light and goes on a break.
Dwight, what is it? Din't anyone else get the humor in this thread?
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