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Originally Posted by kamsmart
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 sort 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?
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I am familiar with that stretch of roadway, although I have not yet driven it in my hybrid (too darned hot for most of my trips to parks to hike and camp).
My problem locally (San Antonio) is the opposite, at least right now. The roadway will be pretty clear. It'll be very early morning or 10-11 PM at night. I'll be driving the speed limit or 5 under it in the right-most lane. Suddenly, I've got a speed demon racing up my tailpipe and whipping around at the last second, as though I should have moved into the left lane to let him/her pass. It's enough to make me go a little nuts, between these and the oblivious drivers who don't recognize simple physics. I'm getting tired of hearing tires squeal behind me because someone ignores my brake lights (if I'm following a vehicle that's turning) and/or my signal and brake lights (if I'm the vehicle making the turn).
And cops... don't get me started about cops. Pleasant drive this evening (barring the above) until a cop car redlines, roaring its engine while passing me on the left, only to squeal his brakes as a red light brings him to a stop behind another vehicle. He'd have run the light if he hadn't had a pickup in front of him... Grrrr....