To the dingbat on the highway who was going slowly until I decided to pass, a big what the hell to you! I decided to pass you, and was doing 115 Km/h in the left PASSING LANE and was also being followed closely by another driver passing you in the PASSING LANE… why did you decide to all of a sudden speed up and pass me in the right lane?! Why did you do that!? I had my blinker on to go back into the right lane, and no I wasn’t going to speed up to 130 cause I saw you coming in the rear view mirror. I had my two baby cousins with me age 7 and 9 yrs old. They are precious cargo, so I wasn’t about to race (not that I would otherwise). I let you go on your merry way, flying by in the right lane, like a twit.
Thank God your window was down so you could hear the minute long glorious sound of my horn. —Peeved
This article appears in Aug 4-10, 2011.
in large cities, people get so used to driving in 2 lane traffic, they start to use double lane highways in the same fashion.
personally, I’m impressed at how many nova scotians understand that the passing lane is a passing lane.
the guy you met, might have just returned from working and living in southern ontario
OP, simply report the plate number and explain the situation. That driver sounds like a fuck nut.
7 and 9 are not BABIES…..cousins or not ….geezuz!
Some people hate to be passed. 115 Km, isn’t that, speeding?
Not much of a bitch, but if it were about some ass going 90k in the passing lane….
Hugo ffs grow up…
I have had people do that to me. It should be treated as assault at least. You should be allowed to run the fucker off the road.
Egg on the windshield would push them back. Too bad you weren’t driving by a puddle at the time you passed his window.
So….passing in right lane (illegal) is the same as assault & the person deserves to be run off the road?
And you, tell me, to grow up. Be careful Guyute, that brain fart sounded wet.
Passing in the right lane in a city happens all the time. Its called driving in your lane.
Like wtf, am I suppose tailgate the left lane driver and force him over to the right when I am already in the right lane and there is no one in front of me?
Furthermore, the signs say “passing lane…” not ” slower vehicles stay to the right” so therefore, the guy in the left lane is obviously not passing in the passing lane. The onus is on lefty.
@Great Value: In truth the signs on the highway say: Keep Right Except to Pass. This means the left lane (in the case of a passing lane) IS the passing lane. also you will find signs which tell you to keep to the right hand lane if you are moving slower than surrounding traffic.
What the OB is describing happens all the time. The only thing I can think of is the driver of the slower vehicle feels so entitled they figure no one is allowed to pass them so when someone dares to they speed up to the point they are speed.
@HP: your right 115 KM/H is speeding but would likely not result in a speeding ticket.
1000 internets to HP!!! Bet Google took .0000000123 seconds to find that insult.
Is there anyone ELSE who thinks the person was “passing” and not blocking the guy out? “..until I decided to pass…”
So, HP, I retract “Grow Up” and add “finish the reading course”.
The driver on the left is at fault. It is not reasonable to tailgate a driver until they move over, especially when the right lane provides an alternate solution to tailgating
Let us consider the big picture just like a judge would, if the driver was doing 5km under the speed limit, would you fine anyone and everyone that passed on the right while doing the speedlimit?
So Guyute, you had to google ‘brain fart’? Fuck, I first heard that in basc training in 1979, where have you been for the past 30 yrs, locked in the basement?
WTF?
1. OP is in the left lane, passing a slower vehicle
2. Another vehicle, going faster than OP, is following in the left lane
3. As OP is about to go back to the right lane, the twit in the right lane speeds up again and passes OP on the right.
And you say the driver in the left lane is in the wrong? Where did you learn to drive?
Now that I’m back in Mass (sadly) I miss how well behaved the NS drivers are (when they’re not being totally oblivious, that is!) People from CT (or, connect-a-fucks as we massholes say) think they are in a swimming pool the way they stay in that left lane!
I use cruise control on the highway, and sometimes as I am passing someone they speed up (I don’t know–do they think they’re better b/c they’re in front?) If they do that, as soon as they pull ahead, I return to the right lane, right on their ass…My car is saying “Y’OK, be in front–just try and keep up, Kay?”
LOL Xeno. A good friend of mine was visiting from Ottawa last week and he told me how much he missed courteous N.S. drivers. He got mixed up on the MacDonald exit and the first person beside him stopped and let him go. It’s all relative.
hay xeno, at least you don’t have greyhound racing anymore^^
My uncle lives in Ottawa and regularly complains about how assholish drivers there can be.
That and those “damn bikes.” He yells about them like an old lady yells about damn kids on her damn lawn.
You think cyclists don’t know how to ride properly in halifax? They be right scary up there! (for motorists and peds alike).
Google ‘traffic’ for whatever city/country you want, you’ll get tons of stuff like this 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xStRRNjB5xo…
it was a set-up but still pretty sweet http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/motori…
Allllllll-Right. I less than 3 retro Soviet gear.
AHAHAHAHA HUGO I LOVE THAT.
Ever notice how the busses will pull this shit sometimes on certain roads?
I read it the same way, Frenchie. OP is in the passing lane passing a vehicle in the right lane while having another car tailgate him in the left. He indicates he wants get back in the right lane and the car in the right lane suddenly speeds up preventing that from happening.
The tailgater is only one in the wrong technically. The driver in the right lane is rude not to mention erratic but did nothing illegal
AHAHAHAHAHAAAAA ok PG I didn’t see that before I posted. That was *awesome* and *so* soviet.
I hear rumblings that people think Russia and former USSR states are going to end up going back to communism. I think it’s a wonderful idea (for them).
ANYWAY, Ivan — the BEST are old Soviet propaganda posters. Major collectors items, but you can get reproductions at allposter.com. They’re pricey there too, but I’d love to get some and get them laminated. I actually wanted to do my MA and PhD in Soviet propaganda at one point.
If it was a red car, it was def. my sister. She is insane.
Wasn’t a red car, ’twas a tit wearing a red hat in a silver car. Frenchie and Troodon have the “story” correct.
Also, 7 and 9 are not babies … true… but they’re still babies to meeeeeee.
Da, Da Priti Kittyushka. There’s a book called “The Commissar Vanishes” that I wish I had bought when it first came out because it commands a pretty penny on ABE these days. All about how visual art had to be edited, cropped, airbrushed or destroyed in the Stalin era, to keep up with the constant rewriting of Soviet history.