🚀 go-pugleaf

Today was a half-holiday. Some of us still had to work. Because of
this, the traffic was relatively light. Because the traffic was
relatively light, it afforded me the opportunity to discover why
traffic gets so backed up during rush hour, because I was able to
"freely" move about.

What I discovered is what I have been bitching about all along:
buttheads in the left lane who have no business being there.
Ordinarily, with heavy congestion, I am unable to move down the
interstate, pass a lot of vehicles and observe what is backing traffic
up. But this is what I discovered today, in light traffic:

  - Even with ample room to stay to the right (2-4 lanes), many slower
    drivers appeared to do what they always do, hang in the left-most
    lane and they weren't passing, not because they were afraid to,
    but because the other lanes were totally empty, meaning they had
    no one to even pass!!!! So why were they hanging in the left lane,
    not passing a soul, yet driving slower than everyone else? I could
    only conclude that they had a habit of blocking traffic the rest
    of the time. Not having a logical reason for this behavior, I can 
    only conclude it was because it makes them feel they have "power"
    when they can control everyone else behind them.

  - Despite being passed by dozens of other cars on the right, they
    seemed oblivious to the fact that they were 5 under the limit and
    that they were doing anything wrong.

  - Had there been a full rush hour, I could now see why we have so
    many long backups, because of complete and total assholes like
    this. Ironically, when other drivers like themselves are ahead of
    them doing the same thing, they suffer the same fate, namely, 
    sitting in backed up traffic. (They punish themselves, not just 
    the rest of us.)

  - There were no cops out there ticketing people for failure to stay
    to the right, which makes me think of the police and their
    political bosses as hypocrites because all they ever seem to
    ticket is people over the limit (and if there is an accident, the
    person alleged to be at fault).