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<Rant> Is it my imagination, or do OH residents have no clue what the left lane is for? On my recent road trip when ever I had to undertake some idiot (some times I (as was the flow of traffic) was doing 5 to 10 under the 70MPH limit), the person I was passing - or atleast one of a group - had an OH plate. Doesn't anyone teach new drivers up there about lane usage? Or should the state of Ohio change its postal abbreviation from OH to LLB and put LLB on the top of its license tags? </Rant>  Signature"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death." --George Carlin No, you're not crazy. Read MTR (misc.transport.road) long enough, and you'll inevitably come across bitching about such. My personal thoughts on Ohio drivers: Ohio has two different versions of their license plates. People driving vehicles with the older design seemed to cause the most trouble in my experience, while people who have the newer style plates seem to drive like everyone else. > <Rant> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > </Rant> > Ohio has two different versions of their license plates. People driving > vehicles with the older design seemed to cause the most trouble in my > experience, while people who have the newer style plates seem to drive > like everyone else. That's because they're not native to Ohio. :) -Dave > <Rant> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > </Rant> I have heard this again and again over the years, but I don't get it. Traditionally I've found OH drivers to have much better lane discipline than most of the other places I've lived, especially MD and NoVA. Even a little better than PA. nate Signaturereplace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel > Nate Nagel said in rec.autos.driving: > I have heard this again and again over the years, but I don't get it. > Traditionally I've found OH drivers to have much better lane discipline > than most of the other places I've lived, especially MD and NoVA. Even > a little better than PA. I just know what I saw. I did find myself undertaking people from other states, but ISTM that the majority of them had OH tags. SignatureLoco Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend admits to being a deadly speeder: "There's a 55mph freeway near where i live and if i do 50, everybody passes me. But if i do 60 very few do." --Laura Bush murdered her boyfriend, 12/17/2004 ref: http://tinyurl.com/np3y6 Message ID: <1103257015.147448.55640@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers) - 12 Jun 2006 05:13 GMT >> <Rant> >> [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] >than most of the other places I've lived, especially MD and NoVA. Even >a little better than PA. One of the worst driver's I've ever encountered lives in Ohio. He was my chauffeur for a couple of weeks in San Fransciso/San Jose and then for another week in south Miami. Guy *never* broke the speed limit in all that time, but he had no concept, much less possession of situational awareness. Saw a spider on his leg and jerked the wheel of the car to the point where we crossed two lanes on the 101; thank God we weren't in heavy traffic at the time. He apologized, stating he had an irrational fear of spiders. I felt like telling him I had the very rational fear of allowing incompetent drivers to operate motor vehicles, but thought better of it. On the extremely rare circumstances he'd overtake someone, he'd approach them slowly, then ride their a.s for several miles even though the blockade could be passed on either side safely. After several miles of following and the expulsion of profanity, he would eventually go around them. For the life of me, I don't understand why he didn't change lanes before he got on their a.s, as it was safe to do so at those times. There were times during those three weeks that I was more afraid for my life than I have at any other time in an automobile, which is saying something because I've been on some "hell rides." If the rest of the residents of Ohio drive like this guy does, I'd estimate a disproportionate amount of those 42,000 Americans dying in vehicular accidents are from Ohio. :-) --- "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 SignatureEl Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.democrats.d/msg/008d032d86999983?hl=en& Ragnar wrote: > Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're > the Fool. This is no joke. Ted Kennedy - President of DDDAMM (Drunk Driving Divers Against Mad Mothers) - 12 Jun 2006 05:04 GMT ><Rant> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > ></Rant> Sheesh, I just wonder if it's out of staters. I have spent a great deal of time on I-85 in the upstate of SC. It never ceases to amaze when heading to either of the border states on that route, how the native drivers of those states CHANGE the way they drive when the cross the state line. NC drivers routinely LLB in SC, but within a mile of the state line, they start driving appropriately. GA drivers do the same, for the most part. It's a conspiracy I tell ya! --- "Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" ~ Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973 SignatureEl Pollo Loco (Laura Bush Murdered Her Boyfriend) demonstrates it's complete gullibility, stupidity, and state of delusion when it falls for an April Fool's joke, hook, line, and sinker: > http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.democrats.d/msg/008d032d86999983?hl=en& Ragnar wrote: > Gods, you're dumb. Its a rather obvious April Fool's joke. And you're > the Fool. This is no joke. >Is it my imagination, or do OH residents have no clue what the left lane >is for? That's only half of the story. In the winter, when all the snowbirds fly south, the LLB capital shiftes down to Tucson and Phoenix. SignatureWhat the heck, I'll play too. - Dave ><Rant> > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > ></Rant> Its not your imagination, not in the least. Ohio is like that. I'm from Ohio, so I know. When I was stationed in New Jersey with the Air Force, and saw one, lone car on the NJ Garden State Parkway in the left lane, I said, "I'll bet he's from Ohio" and so accelerated to check, and I was right. That was 1969. Its always been like that. Dave Head > ><Rant> > > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > Its not your imagination, not in the least. Ohio is like that. I'm from Ohio, > so I know. I, too, am from Ohio (and frankly, like Dave, I was brought up better. I've never been a LLB. Going slower than other traffic is a totally foreign concept to me.). But I can tell you from personal experience, having moved to Wisconsin 15 years ago: They're even worse up here. -- C.R. Krieger (It never stops) >> ><Rant> >> > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >foreign concept to me.). But I can tell you from personal experience, >having moved to Wisconsin 15 years ago: They're even worse up here. Yeah, what is it with I-90 and 94, anyway? For years, I've merrily passed everyone else like they were standing still, simply because I was in the far right lane, where no one else was. They've even got some signs along it in places that say, "Trucks use left lane." Whazzup with that? Doesn't seem to make any sense. Didn't have a clear lane last weekend when I was there, but there still was more traffic in the left lane than the right lane. Dave Head |
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