So I'm driving along at 62. Car comes hauling up on me quite a bit faster. I move over to let him pbutt (first mistake.) He pbuttes and... slows down to my speed, pacing about 10 feet ahead, me in the right lane, him in the left. Other cars catch up, start forming a clump, I accelerate to 70 or so (I'm really gonna get raped if I get caught doing that...) and get the hell out of there.
But what the hell is wrong with people? Why the hell slow down just because I am "slow" (although still 7 mph over the limit...)
And all this happened about 10 minutes after I broke out of another clump that had people driving right beside each other, blocking the road, and ultimately descending to a speed of about 52 mph. This was an accurate speed, as I had my GPS going at the time. Just nuts. The problem in this case was a guy that was going to turn left, and was running in the left lane for about 5 miles prior to it, and, for whatever reason, going slower, and slower, and slower as he approached his turn. There are turnouts for the left-turners, so there was no real reason to go slower at all, but he did, and the other sheeple slowed down when he slowed down.
When he finally turned left, this opened an opportunity. I pbutted on the right, but the guy right ahead of me accelerated briskly to close up the hole between him and the car ahead of him so I couldn't get into it and pbutt the now slower car ahead in the right lane. Fine - I pbutted this guy and the guy he was now following too closely, and got in front of both of them and continued down the road.
The people on SR3 east of Fredericksburg now "take the cake." These are the worst drivers I've ever driven amongst. They depose my former kings of bad driving, the drivers of Toledo, Ohio, who will pull out in front of you while looking right at you, daring you to hit them (They did this when I was driving my Dodge Omni - they quit when I got back into my 4500 lb 1977 Jeep Cherokee for a week, so they're just rude, but not suicidal...)
This will be a great place to move away from if I survive the next 6 1-2 years and retire... Move back to Ohio, where people who catch you go ahead and pbutt you, and go over the horizon on you without even thinking of slowing down for any reason. This is why the Ohio State Patrol is so profitable - the people of Ohio don't much put up with any nonsense that resembles dawdling, even when its the speed limit.
Dave Head
