In a lane of their own

[TheSnakeLady]

So we had several systems dump snow on us the last half a week or so. Most people around here are savvy enough that snowy roads don't spell instant doom. Either they know how to drive in it, or they stay home.

But then there are special people...

I was driving down the interstate in the left lane. Yes, I was going less than the speed limit. But that's because there was ice, slush, and snow on the roads, and I prefer NOT to get into an accident.

All of a sudden this pickup truck and an SUV come zooming past in the left shoulder, treating it like it's their own personal lane. I watched, and they weren't just trying to scoot past a problem driver -- they continued to use the left shoulder for the several miles I had sight of them.

Seriously peoples... snow doesn't mean you get to make up your own traffic rules. You're not fooling anyone. Just because the lane markings are under several inches of snow doesn't mean you don't know where the shoulder is.

[Bramble]

Ah yes, people were doing this to me Tuesday night on my lovely 2 hour commute home(snowplows hadn't TOUCHED the interstates yet) One guy who did that after tailgaiting me, with all the other lanes open, came flying past me and I said "I hope you end up in a ditch you dick" Three seconds later guess who spun out on the ramp and got stuck in a snow ridge? Mwahhahahaha. Yes he was fine btw. He was just the first out of 5 slide outs I saw in less than a half mile.

[Parrothead]

During Snowpocolipse pt 1 a few weeks ago, I was on the last mile or two of my drive home and was on a little back road, one lane north, one south with houses on either side. So I'm driving north, mostly sitting still as there is a fairly steep hill at the end of this road, a schoolbus somewhere ahead of me, and a spur line of a railway between where I am and where I'm headed. Everyone is behaving, cars headed south are being nice and stopping to explain *why* we haven't moved in 30 minutes (stupid people getting stuck on aforesaid steep hill) when I am passed by a jeep driving in people's yards.



He passed on my left. We drive on the right.

Yes, this impatient asshole drove over the lane for oncoming traffic and onto people's lawns co he didn't have to wait.

[mathnerd]

I was out and about Monday night on moderately icy roads. I was slack jawed at the number of people I saw driving like a bat out of hell. It's ice people. It forgives nobody, not even those fancy 4X4's you seem to think are bullet proof. Hint: 4X4's help in snow and slush, but don't help one bit on ice. They also don't help you stop. You still have to account for conditions. I saw those lovely 4X4's in ditches at least every mile.

[wolfie]

Yes, this impatient asshole drove over the lane for oncoming traffic and onto people's lawns co he didn't have to wait.

Where are the landscaping rocks (when covered in snow, indistinguishable from a low bush with a similar covering) when you need them? Legally, a homeowner can't be faulted for putting something in their yard that would tear out the oil pan of someone driving over it. After all, the car shouldn't be there in the first place.

[mhkohne]

Where are the landscaping rocks (when covered in snow, indistinguishable from a low bush with a similar covering) when you need them? Legally, a homeowner can't be faulted for putting something in their yard that would tear out the oil pan of someone driving over it. After all, the car shouldn't be there in the first place.

I was once told the story of a gent in the construction industry whose mailbox kept getting run over (deliberately). Apparently his next mail box post was a section of steel i-beam set in lots of concrete and dressed with wood.

The mailbox problem soon self-corrected.