All Else Confusion

I guess that every state has its own version of bad drivers. Here in Virginia drivers make a habit of driving in the left lane very slowly and refusing to move over even when the lane next to them is empty and there is a car behind them. They seem to think that as long as they're doing a few miles over the speed limit they have every right to that left lane. In fact this habit is so entrenched that drivers frequently move all the way into the left lane even when there is no slower traffic ahead of them in other lanes. Tonight I even saw a car move over into the left lane seemingly on a whim - I simply couldn't understand why, when he had been driving along so well in his lane, he suddenly needed to move over. There certainly wasn't a car in front of him. Maybe it was to let the car behind him pass. Though why he didn't move over into the empty right lane I have no clue. The result of all this is that drivers here have developed the very bad habit of passing on the right. There is nothing like attempting to move over after passing a car only to find that the space you wanted to move into suddenly occupied by someone coming around on the right!

Labels: Virginia observations