Date:         Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:43:58 -0600
Reply-To:     Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Enforcers (friday)
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People where I live think that an off ramp is a good place to park while
the traffic clears out, and any old traffic lane is a good place to park
before crossing the turn lane to make a left or a right.

Jim

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Don Hanson <dhanson928@gmail.com> wrote:

>   Since we have some 'odious driving' posts today, how about the ones who
> ....
>
>   ...come cruising out of an on ramp and make no attempt whatsoever to
> adjust their speed to fit into the flow of traffic?   They wait till the
> ramp is almost ended....and then they look at the right travel lane, where
> they will have to be, right soon,   and are surprised and very pissed
> sometimes to see a vehicle  already there, one that hasn't altered it's
> speed or lane to get out of the inattentive merger's way....
>
>  My Interstate travel is often done in the right lane since I don't go
> 80mph like most seem to do....Sometimes I even have big rigs passing me or
> other 'momentum' vehicles.  Or someone in the process of going past me in
> the left lane, when along comes this 'wait till the last possible moment'
> vehicle wanting to get into the travel lane from the very last few yards of
> the on ramp....  Again, I sometimes get the StinkEye from these
> types....Makes you wonder.
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 8:38 AM, Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Car and Driver magazine has for years referred to these drivers as
> members
> > of the Anti-Destination League.
> > Stephen
> >
> > --- On Fri, 11/9/12, David Bjorkman <ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET> wrote:
> >
> > From: David Bjorkman <ddbjorkman@VERIZON.NET>
> > Subject: Enforcers
> > To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> > Date: Friday, November 9, 2012, 10:44 AM
> >
> > Sad to say, it's not just a NW problem.  Here in the New England area
> it's
> > all too common a problem also.  Did you notice that when one tries to
> pass
> > one of these "Enforcers", they speed up until they are beside someone in
> > the middle or right lane and then slow down so that none of those
> > nasty other folks can pass them? Dave B.  On 11/09/12, Don Hanson<
> > dhanson928@GMAIL.COM> wrote:.
> >
> > And of course, there's the Left Lane speed limit Enforcers we have here
> in
> > the NW who drive along on the empty interstate in the left lane at just
> > below the limit and give you the "Stink-Eye" when you pass them using the
> > right hand lane......
> >
> > D. Hanson
> >
> >
> >
>