Now, this would not be an issue for anyone with a normal commute to work. Most people don't drive the interstate long enough that they even notice. But for someone that has a 111 mile one way commute to work every day, this is a huge issue.
Any normal person after a few minutes of driving behind the slower car, would just pass them in the right lane, say a few choice words as they pass and just get over it. Not me! I feel like if you achieved the prestigious goal of getting you drivers license, then you should know the rules of the road and it is my responsibility, as a fellow driver, to remind you of those rules when you have a brain fart and forget them.
Example. Just the other day I left work around five, fought the twenty minute five o'clock traffic from my office to the interstate, which is just a mile and a half. Once I got away from the idiots that get on where I do, do ninety five weaving in and out of traffic and get off a couple miles down the road, I set me cruise control on my normal setting, which for legal reasons I won't say what that setting is. I immediately noticed this Jeep Wrangler that I was approaching in the left lane doing about seventy two miles an hour. The spare tire cover said Hilton Head Island, which is south of where we were, but there was a bumper sticker that was from a high school not too far from my house. So I knew that I was in for a long ride.
I am not one of those people that will run up right behind you and flash my lights for you to get out of my way. I feel like if you have your DL and are driving on the interstate, you should know that if I am behind you in the left lane, you should get over in the right lane. I understand that there might be slower cars in the right lane and you can't immediately move over, but when the right lane is clear for ten miles, that's a problem.
I do have some standard "moves" that I use from time to time to remind you of what an idiot you are. First, I will pull up quickly behind you to show you that I am indeed going faster than you. Usually, this move works and I don't have to pull anything else out of my hat. If that doesn't work, there are a few other things that I do to remind you of how things work. My favorite is I will move over to the right lane and then back to the left, to show you how to do it because obviously you have forgotten. Some times I have to do this several times before you get the idea. The other day with the Jeep, none of my moves would work. I know that the driver saw me doing these things, because we made eye contact on several occasions. Remember I refuse to pass in the right lane. I ended up riding behind this idiot the entire way home. I did do a few things on the way that will make him think twice the next time he wants to ride in the left lane all the way.
You riding in the left lane is such a problem for me that I have even looked in to getting a car wrap for my car that on the left side says "if you are reading this, you are an idiot. You obviously don't know how to drive and should immediately go the the DMV and turn in your license." Not only would this not fit on the side of my car, but is very expensive to try. I even looked at getting one of the signs that you see in some stores that scroll messages across it. I would put it in the back window and when I did pass the problem vehicle, I would remind them, very nicely, what they did wrong and what I thought of them. This too is logistically impossible.
So, I have decided to work on my patience, be kind to my fellow humans and try to "understand" what could possibly be going through your head when you are cruising in the left lane. But be careful, if this is you and you see someone coming up behind you doing some Nascar maneuvers because you refuse to move over, it might be me and I just might have figured out how to mount that scrolling sign in the back window that, when I pass you might read, "Move Over Stupid".
