boltonblue

you're both literary thieves
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/466...my-grandfather
I know I've used it before as well.

when I googled the text it sent me to a suicide line.

cosmomiller

I don’t know if Texas still does, but when I lived in southern Texas for 2 years in the late 70s, Texas had “Drive Friendly” signs. That means if you are slower than somebody who is right behind you, you are expected to drive to the right over the shoulder line, to give more room for the other person to pass. Everyone always waved.

robb

That is the way it should be.

Matt_in_VA

That is no surprise to me. I have a few friends that live in Maryland. About a year ago while visiting one of them I got passed by a school bus, in the right hand shoulder of the road!. Back in September while visiting another friend on was on Indian Head Hwy. Which is the most dangerous road in the Washington DC Metro area. I was in my S in the right hand lane of three northbound lanes doing 53 MPH in a 50 MPH zone. I looked in the mirror and saw two cars approaching in my lane at SPEED. I thought that they may rear end me so I gassed it. One passed me on my left, the other on the right hand shoulder. They had to be going close to 100 MPH. Off they sped weaving in and out of traffic a head of me.

Kyras

Colorado will give a ticket if you camp in the fast lane on freeways. My niece was a passenger in a ticketed vehicle. There are signs that say Slower Traffic Use Pullouts and people are white knuckling past them up and down the climb.

robb

I made a 100 mile round trip with most of it being 2 lane straight highway with a few passing lanes here and there. They have been plowing,salting and sanding for 2 days nights and we’re still out last night but there is only so much they can do with these conditions so it was still slow going. I felt comfortable traveling at 40 m.p.h. 2 hands on the wheel staying off the brakes just cruising along and I only ran into one Johnny on the brakes on my trip to my friends last night but I just kept my distance. Going home after being on the highway for 2 miles I got stuck behind a guy who would slow down to 20 m.p.h. every time he saw a patch of ice so I stayed behind him best I could then an oil tanker truck comes up behind me stays behind me for a minute then passes both myself and the car in front of me in a no passing zone right before a turn in the highway on ice. Then a few miles later a Wolfpack of cars comes up behind me and I see headlights in my lane and in the opposite lane as a guy is passing about 7 cars on the opposite side of the road then another car does it then another and then they all drove on top of each other for the next ten miles each one of them constantly speeding up and hitting the brakes, they basically risked life’s passing so that they could accomplish driving about 7 car lengths ahead of me for 10 miles.

ralper

Every state is the worst in its own way. New Jersey drivers are arrogant and aggressive. New York, especially Manhattan drivers absolutely refuse to yield to anyone, and Pennsylvania drivers need to learn how to drive before they take their cars out.

I was lucky to learn to drive in New York City. To paraphrase Frank Sinatra, "If you can drive there, you can drive anywhere, New York, New York."

ralper

Don't forget BMW drivers. They think that when they bought the car they bought the road too.

zeroptzero

Canadian drivers tend to be pretty good overall, no real complaints about regions around me. We respect the left lanes for faster traffic only, our driver training is almost mandatory if you want to have any form of affordable insurance so you really need to take it. Our graduated licensing system is pretty well controlled for younger drivers. But I think our transport truck drivers have gotten worse, safety and training has gone out the window to get more drivers to fill the vacant jobs quickly. I avoid the Toronto region which is always crazy and overly busy with constant traffic jams, not a place I want to visit any further.

tof

Joey, many years ago I happened to be driving around Montreal. You know how at many major urban intersections you can see the side of the traffic signal for the cross-traffic? Well, as soon as the signal would turn yellow, everyone would start moving. I don't mean they would start creeping ahead. They would hit the gas as if their light had already turned green! Is that still a thing?