At the same time, I sympathize with bar10dah about the old person driving slow. I do not mean disrespect to this elderly gentleman or to any elderly person who chooses to drive slow. But when there comes an age when it becomes difficiult to make decisions behind the wheels, then, people should get some help. Let their children or their care-takers drive them around. It is hazardous to drive that slow on a highway, besides irritating many other drivers.

I remember going on Hwy 21 between Bastrop and San Marcos (close to Shannon's San Antonio .. so she might know what I am talking about). It was a one lane road, and I could not pass the vehicle in front of me which had an elderly couple driving at 20 miles per hour on a 65 miles per hour highway. The road divider indicated that I could not overtake vehicles on that stretch of the road. Despite the norm of that section of highway having very little traffic (I would say 2 cars passing per minute at a given point on that road), we were stuck long enough behind this slow car for about 10 cars to be trailing behind us .. forming a srot of caravan. Can you imagine the frustration that the drivers (and the passengers) of those 10 cars had to go through because of one slow driver?

When at last, I did get a way around him (I do not remember whether the one lane highway gave way to 2 lanes), or the road-divider sign indicated that overtaking was allowed, I let out a sigh or relief. My wife was laughing at me when I did that .. I mean, it was just ridiculous out there. Although we could hold our frustration up, not everyone in that long caravan of cars did .. they honked and screamed at them, which made me feel bad for the elderly couple ...

I think, a fair suggestion and a good compromise would be that the elderly couple still go around, but dont drive themselves ...