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   Jolly Roger to twsherman@REMOVE_THISsouthslope.net   
   Re: Finally, California drivers can read   
   16 Mar 14 04:26:09   
   
   XPost: comp.mobile.android, comp.mobile.ipad   
   From: jollyroger@pobox.com   
      
   On 2014-03-16, T0m $herman  wrote:   
   > On 3/15/2014 10:50 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >> On 2014-03-16, T0m $herman  wrote:   
   >>> On 3/15/2014 5:46 PM, Jolly Roger wrote:   
   >>>> On 2014-03-15, 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.  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.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> That makes perfect sense for two-lane roads. Are all of the highways you   
   >>>> drive two-lane roads? Around these parts, we can have many more than   
   >>>> just two lanes. Or do you expect all drivers to remain in the right-most   
   >>>> lane even when there are 3, 4, or 5 lanes available, just so that the   
   >>>> Fast & Furious can have the road all to themselves?   
   >>>>   
   >>> Yes I do,   
   >>   
   >> Expecting all drivers other than yourself to remain in the right-most   
   >> lane even when there are 3, 4, or 5 lanes available not only absurd, but   
   >> it simply will not happen under normal driving conditions on most   
   >> highways, unless the roadway is void of cars altogether, which is   
   >> obviously not what we are talking about here.   
   >>   
   >>> and yes I did when I commuted regularly on 6 and 8-lane   
   >>> controlled access roads.   
   >>   
   >> You did what?... Expected all other drivers not to occupy anything but   
   >> the right-most lane? Did the other drivers live up to your silly   
   >> expectation? Did you have all lanes except the right lane all to   
   >> yourself?   
   >>   
   >   
   >   
   > No silly, not that.   
      
   You're boring. Into the kill file you go.   
      
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