commentary by Michael L. Bromley
copyright 2005

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Mar 11/ 05: Leftlaneness

Okay, I give in. You can have your public burning of cell phone-using drivers -- if the moron is caught using it in the left lane and driving a friggin Toyota Prius... I passed (on the right, of course) two of the bastards on a five-mile stretch of I-495 just today.

I suppose when you've paid a $5,000 premium for an even smaller car than the standard Toyota economobile just to save $3,000 worth of gasoline over ten years, you feel like you deserve a more external reward than your own self-satisfied smugness. So go ahead, drive in the left lane. Talk on the cell phone. Choke on your sanctimony.

While you putter (or whine or whatever noise a hybrid makes on the highway -- oh, wait, gotta use the GASOLINE engine for open road driving) at two mph below the speed limit in the left lane you can call all your friends and tell them what a decent world citizen you are while driving around your badge of enlightenment. And that honking noise in the background? That's just some bald-freak in a busted up Ford Escort screaming past you in third gear on his way to a more relaxing speed of eighty or ninety, holding up a sign that reads,

I'd rather pass you on the left!
 

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