I need a sanity check from the fediverse.
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I need a sanity check from the fediverse. After all, I'm a mere Illinois driver. I was just informed my dad and his friends have this deep pet peeve while driving that I have absolutely never been aware of or concerned by on safe roads in America.
Imagine you are driving on a multi-lane highway. Yes, I get the "right lane is the slow lane, left lane is the passing lane" thing. But imagine it's like pretty empty road, out in the country, and you're driving the speed you want to go in the right or middle lane.
Another car is along side you in the left lane. There's nobody behind them who wants to go faster. They just hang out at the same-ish speed as you. So you have a car kind of driving next to you.
This makes my dad deeply uncomfortable and he finds it incredibly rude. Fediverse, if the driver is doing nothing else objectionable, is it him, or me?
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DDRreplied to Lesley Carhart :unverified: on last edited by
@hacks4pancakes Totally him, imo. I mean, if your want to break the deadlock, just tap the break or gas and there ya go.
At one point, a friend I was with who was a bit of a troublemaker had this happen to him. So... he rolled with it. And then traffic started building up behind us, and he rolled with it for a good 20 minutes or so. The folk behind us were steamed, and rightfully so. Two cars, rolling down the freeway, neither quite passing each other...
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Risottoreplied to DDR on last edited by [email protected]
@ddr @hacks4pancakes I did this a lot on the road to the denver airport (there's constant start and stop traffic, and there's /no/ location to turn on or off until the terminals/parking. so people trying to weave between cars didn't make any progress whatsoever.
however, if two of you decide it's gonna be a smooth 10mph cruise for 25 miles or whatever, and you're not gonna start/stop, then woohoo it's fun.