BUZZURRO

Yesterday Buzzurro and I were driving on the highway I-25.
The speed limit on this road is 75 m.p.h.
We wanted to drive 75 m.p.h., so after entering this highway we quickly entered the left lane and sped up to the correct speed. The cars in front of us were traveling at this speed. The slower traffic was in the right lane. Situation Normal.

Within a few minutes we came upon a car directly in front of us that chose to drive at 70 m.p.h.

We slowed down and both thought that eventually, as soon as possible, the car in front of us that was going slow would switch into the slow lane.

In the past few months driving on this road I have noticed that when a slower car is being followed by a faster car, it will move to a slower moving lane.

In fact this is how it works on every road in every country that I’ve been on. Nobody wants a faster driving tailgater following them.

After more than a few minutes of drving slow, we started to think “Could that car in front of us not even be aware that we are behind him and would like to drive faster?”

Buzzurro flashed his headlights, but nothing happened.

In a few minutes he did it again. Still nothing happened. I noticed at that point that the right lane was empty so I told Buzzurro to pass the slower moving car in the right lane.

Then we can get back in the left lane. We signalled and switched into the right lane.

Then we accelerated to pass the slower moving car in front of us, what happened ?

He accelerated too, using the exact same speed as we were using so we couldn’t pass him.

How childish is that?

It is obvious that there are no intelligence tests attached to the driving one because if so, this man would have failed.

If you don’t want to speed up or switch into other lanes so that faster moving traffic may drive freely, then don’t speed up when they try to pass you.

To continue on with this story, since we couldn’t pass this car since he wouldn’t allow it we just slowed down and stayed in the right lane.

He slowed down too. We were going 70 m.p.h., and so was he.

Soon we noticed a long line of cars behind him. He was in the fast lane after all, and he wasn’t going fast.

I bet all those drivers were just as mad as we were.

Finally we reached our exit and left that mess behind. I will end this post saying that only responsible adult drivers shoud drive.
If you want to have childlike temper, do everyone a favor and ride a bus.

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