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Bill
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3/20/2002
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Now, before everybody from Texas gets mad at me, I am only posting this as a QUESTION!! I drove my Dak over 2700 miles last week over a 3 day period from Indiana to San Antonio and back. This was my first trip to Texas and I noticed something I never noticed up here. Down in Texas, it seemed as though 50-75% of the local drivers drove in the passing lane (left lane) all the time whether they were passing or not. Occassionally they would find themselves going the same speed as the person in the right lane, however, they would not speed up or slow down and block traffic behind them. Never have I seen people drive like this. I am not disrespecting any of you Texas guys on the site, I loved the state (especially Austin, I could live there!), I just want to know why it is that some people choose to drive this way down there? Thanks!
Bill
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MikeD
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3/20/2002
18:40:43
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Yeah Bill I've noticed that too...I HATE THAT!! Get over in the slow lane if your not goin to go fast damnit! I'm in Dallas and I go home alot up in N. Texas and it happens almost everytime. Some parts of the state post signs that say Unless passing stay in right lane or you'll be fined or somethin like that.
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Diligent Dave
Dodge Dakota
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3/20/2002
19:09:41
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I'm another Dallas/ Fort Worth gut and we sure do have tons of peeps that cruise at 65 to 70 (speed limit) in the left lane. Another thing is that, in Texas, semi trucks are allowed to drive in the left lane also. I find myself getting mad quite often.
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Bill
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3/20/2002
19:17:23
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I'm glad I am not the only one who noticed this. Believe me, when you are running on a tight time schedule as I was, there were times I wanted to crank it into 4x4 and pass in the median!
Bill
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Diligent Dave
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3/20/2002
19:21:21
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-=Bill=-
OMG! I have soooo many of those thoughts! I think that GTA3 has ruined me, those darn video games. I have to fight urges to run over pedestrians and ram cop cars.
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MikeD
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
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HAHAHA yeah I've played GTA3 so many times I've had to catch myself from smashing into someone on purpose.
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5pnt9ltrluv
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3/21/2002
08:48:08
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I have to agree that there are some boneheads on the roads here in Texas. People that stop on the on ramp to get onto the highwasy, people that go the speed limit in the left lane, and then there is the freakin rubberneckers!!! Rubberneckers are the pains in my a$$. Is seeing a wreck more important that causing one!?!?!?!? If you want to see a wreck watch World's Wildest Police Videos, if you wanna drive, keep your eyes on the freakin road!!!
Kris
2002 CC R/T Atlantic Blue
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Coming soon: MSD ignition system w/ blaster ss. Barg Warner cap and rotor, Taylor perf. wires, Underdrive pulley.
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fourgivn1
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3/21/2002
08:54:56
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I definitely second (and third, and fourth) the sentiments here. Just THIS morning I almost rearended some jack@$$ simply because they said "Oooh look, a crash!" and slowed from like 55 to 35 in a second or two. There was NO obstruction of traffic AT ALL. I hate that with a passion!
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Demon-Xanth
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3/21/2002
08:59:04
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Around Sacramento is worse. That 50-75% becomes 70-95%. I have yet to make a single trip between my house and my work (and school before I graduated) w/o someone camping in the fast lane. And I used to work at a restraunt where I occasionally got off at 1AM. And there was STILL people camping in the fast lane. Now you'd think that in 6 years (on and a half of it was twice/day) that I might be able to get a single trip w/o a fast lane camper, but it's never happened.
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Muzzy
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3/21/2002
09:44:38
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Michigan drivers are no different. That's why I learned to pass on the shoulders..he he.
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Bill
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
09:46:37
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I second the comment about Michigan drivers. I do a LOT of driving up there and it is similar to Texas, however, I still think Texas takes the cake!
Bill
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drtswinger
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3/21/2002
10:03:55
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I learned that is you ride their @$$ they will usually take the hint and get out of the way, and if they dont, I just go around. I'm so used to it being like this here in Dallas I didnt know it was different anywhere else.
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Bill
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3/21/2002
10:22:26
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drtswinger,
I can assure you that not everybody drives like some of the boneheads in Texas. Being the first time for me down there, I noticed the difference right away. You do exactly what I did. I would ride their bumpers until they either sped up or got the hell out of my way!
Bill
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R/Truck
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
11:00:42
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I lived all my life in Texas and can't understand why we put up signs saying "Left lane for passing only" when the police don't inforce it. The Texas polite way of getting someone to move over is to ride their ass with your lights and horn on. Then give them them 1 finger wave.
God Bless Texas
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IntenseDak39
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3/21/2002
11:06:24
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"Drive Friendly - the Texas Way"
man i love those signs at our state borders!
"How's my driving?........Race me and find out!"
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Viper6
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3/21/2002
12:27:33
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Also a Texan here... I hate driving with the idiots, on 114, in the morning a SLIGHT CURVE IN THE ROAD backs up traffic EVERY MORNING!!!!!
As soon as you get through the curve, it speeds up again, people are idiots, the curve has been the same for years, yet the retards that drive it EVERY DAY STILL SLOW DOWN for it, and you can take the curve at 90+, yet they choose to do 45 and 50 around it...!!!!!AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Makes me want a massive brush gard to slam through people!
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ZenDak
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
12:50:27
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When I'm rich enough,,,old enough. I'm gonna build up a truck w/ a massive grille guard, and make it to work in under 20 minutes one day. No rain, sleet, or any vehicle shorter than my BFG's will prevent me from making it!
I've always dreamed about smashing the $hit out of some a-hole, that was too big a jerk to get out of the way. Really throw'm off guard when you go through w/it! HAhahaa!
Maybe pop some alka-seltzer so my mouth is foaming when I pass their smashed a$$.
Just venting....live in Austin
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BlackDakRacer
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3/21/2002
13:06:13
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OH GOD DAMN! lots of anger in here! damn old people ALWAYS drive slow. Here's another one: when people from the on ramp go all the way across when they see you coming up fast, so you have to jump on the brakes. Caution: this action usually results in severe tailgating!!! My sistter is a master at this, one time in a Ferd f-150 she was about 2 inches off an mr-2's butt, this guy whips into a parking lot, and stares at my sister, some funny stuff! the WORST part is when the sign: keep texas moving, slower traffic keep right, check your rearview mirror, comes up, i'm always behind a slow driver and THEY NEVER MOVE!!
~~Eric
sorry bout the length
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R/Truck
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3/21/2002
13:45:33
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I think if those slow drivers could just get plowed off the road at least once they might consider staying in the slow lane.
Another one is those guys with their seats all the way reclined driving the cars with the rims turned inside out. What's the story there? It's not a parade, sit up and drive faster!
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Diligent Dave
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3/21/2002
13:45:56
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OMG I hate those people that look in the mirror and see you 2 feet behind them, I mean, they look right into your eyes and STILL go slow. I want a grenade launcher on the front of my truck.
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Texas Todd
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
14:16:35
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Ain't it great, to hear people venting many of your exact feelings?
I don't think most people have had a good drivers ed class, before they got their license. They don't care about others, drive with their heads up their a$$.
Houston/Galveston area.
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kota on 20s
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3/21/2002
14:26:12
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you should drive in southern CA. NO ONE CAN DRIVE! asian drivers OMG!
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R/Truck
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3/21/2002
15:04:19
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I'm Asian, what are you saying?
not really
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Demon-Xanth
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3/21/2002
15:15:28
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kota: last few times I was in LA I had to comment on how GOOD the drivers were compared to Sacramento. Once you get past the yuppie boarder line traffic is much more well behaved, but there seems to be a strong correlation between "yuppie" and "numbnut".
Example: There's a grade where the third lane (truck lane) ends just over the top of the hill, it's been that way for over a decade. Yet during rushhour (which lasts more than half the day) some 30% of traffic uses it to cut around the truck that just merged into the normal lanes (because the truck lane _IS_ ending after all) and cut infront of as many people as possible, including the truck that is on the brakes because the mile 10-12% grade up is followed by a 100 yard 15% grade down. And traffic is always stopped. And there is no shoulder.
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jesse t.
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3/21/2002
17:12:41
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Viper 6, i fell ya man, i know exactly what you are talking about, i drive 114 every moring around 7:30am and afternoon around 5pm, I swear! 2 days ago i got into some road rage with a blue pathfinder that didnt want to wait his turn on getting on the ramp,But im about to hit that trafic here in little bit.
Jesse T.
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IntenseDak39
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3/21/2002
17:23:27
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jesse t & viper 6,
where do yall work/live... i live right off of 114 and 377 in roanoke
intense
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Jesse T.
Dodge Dakota
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3/21/2002
17:27:58
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I work in las Colinas and go to school at North Lake College, I live in Irving off 183 and carl rd, by Frank Para.
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IntenseDak39
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3/21/2002
18:48:20
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cool... my dad works in las colinas
we all need to meet up one day
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Paul Lowery
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3/22/2002
00:15:30
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Teenage Texas Driver here, and I totally understand that. I live in Aggieland, and every highway outa here is fast cause of college students. When the slow drivers think 70 we think 85. I almost rearended some old lady that was goin like 5 miles faster than the person she was passing. I just threw it in 4th and flew by her goin about 95 after she passed that person. I love making people feel dumb.
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drtswinger
Dodge Dakota
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3/22/2002
09:45:17
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OK OK, how about this... when there is an exit or entrance to a highway or some thing... and you turn into your own lane onto a road, yet the people in front of you stop anyways, and wait until traffic clears before they go, only to realize that all those signs showning you have your own lane ARE true! People like that really PI$$ me off cause they are the kind of people who cause traffic jams, and slow down to 10 whenever they see flashing lights on the highway... wreck or not. soryy, but this really makes me mad.
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Jesse T.
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3/22/2002
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Yeah that would be cool, I want to see your truck man, compair mods and stuff.
Jesse T.
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