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   T0m $herman to Your Name   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   15 Mar 14 21:37:54   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: twsherman@REMOVE_THISsouthslope.net   
      
   On 3/15/2014 4:06 PM, Your Name wrote:   
   > In article , T0m $herman   
   >  wrote:   
   >> On 3/12/2014 12:53 AM, Your Name wrote:   
   >>> I said "some places". There's also a variety of other reasons for   
   >>> perhaps not moving over to the "slower" lanes ... including all the   
   >>> impatient morons zooming up behind you, changing lanes and passing you   
   >>> on the "wrong side".   
   >>   
   >> Your paragraph makes no sense.   
   >   
   > It makes perfect sense.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   >> Staying in the right lane (left lane for   
   >> most of the Commonwealth and Japan) means the faster traffic will   
   >> naturally overtake on the correct side.  Works in Northern Europe, where   
   >> the police *will* ticket you for blocking the inside lane.   
   >   
   > I purposely avoided using "left lane" and "right lane" so that it was   
   > irrelevant which side of the road a particular country drives on.   
   >   
   If you were paying attention, you would not have people "zooming" up   
   behind you and passing in the outside lane.   
      
   The only time people ever pass me on the right on controlled access   
   roads is where there is an exit-only lane and someone moton [1] go by in   
   it at higher speed.   
      
   [1] Conflation of motorist and moron.   
      
   --   
   T0m $herm@n   
      
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