K Lo Lo, Left lane is for passing only. Not for having fun. If you like to drive at 65 in a 65 limit zone, that's great, but do it in middle lane or right lane and keep the left lane open. if you have enough patience and discipline to stick to the speed limit and not go over it, you should certainly have no problem blocking the passing lane.
OP - Good job keeping your cool. I would have done the same thing - except instead of thinking about calling the cops, it's always a good idea to do a "fake call" - where you pretend to dial a number into your cell phone and then look at his vehicle like you're looking for descriptions while you're driving. It would probably scare them enough to make them leave you alone. K Lolo - you're a r****d. Driving the speed limit is fine. Actually, it's great. But why not just stay in the right lane while doing so? The left lane is a PASSING LANE - so if you're not passing, then YOU'RE the one breaking the "rules".
Not cool, not safe. Some of us are very good drivers and pose little or any danger to others if we stay in our lane/pass smartly and speed over 65mph. Go to Germany someday and see how the Autobahn works. You'll have people in Mercedes/BMW going ~120 mph whilst traffic is ~80 mph and you either move over quickly or let them pass. If it's your wish to go slow, then you may do so, but don't interfere with other drivers.
Mature move on your part...........everyone thinks they are a badass in their car. Especially these young punks driving mommy and daddys car.
Once I was driving home from Whataburger fairly late at night... I came to a red light and I'm in the right lane (left lane = left turn only. Right lane = straight or right turn). Some asshat in an astro pulls up into the left lane, barely stops for the red light, is almost in the intersection. He guns it at the green, goes straight from the left turn lane, and cuts me off to get in my lane. So I honk, short and sweet, just letting the guy know that yeah I was there and that move was unnecessary. Dude slams on his brakes, so I stop a good distance behind him. He doesn't move, doesn't get out of his van, just sits there. So I pass him. He then starts following me home, so I drive through a shopping center, an apartment complex, and the neighborhood next to mine... Dude's still following me, even though I've made it clear by this point I'm not going home, and I'm not stopping. So he's still following me and my fries are cold by now, so I decide to just end this business cuz he's ruined my meal. I pick a fairly small block, and decide to do laps around it. I'm able to corner and accelerate quicker, cuz I'm in a car (vs. van), so after about 6 or 7 laps, I've got enough of a lead that I can gun it down to the next block and get out of sight. I finally lose the dude and make it home safely, and all it cost me was an extra gallon of gas and a cold (make that reheated) value meal.
Driving like that is just asking for you to get your ass kicked and this is coming from someone who is so done with getting upset with other drivers and having road rage issues. But I can guarantee you that if I was on the road with you and you pulled that crap, then my old road rage tendencies would come back. You do realize that when someone is trying to pass and you speed up, that you are breaking the law, right? As others have said, that is outstanding that you can drive the speed limit but you really need to be in the right lane and not the lane that is used for passing and HOV. I used to get upset quite a bit with the way other people drive and they would do things far less annoying and irritating than what "K LoLo" does. But I decided it wasn't worth it. Life is too short to get wrapped around the axle over other people's driving habits. And my perspective on this definitely changed after I got married and had kids. Now my wife - well, she can get a little testy when she thinks people are not in their lane and they pull out in front of her. She likes to lay on the horn which always makes me cringe because you never know what people might do or what they may have in their vehicles.
I agree. If you drive slow in the far left lane you deserve to get your a$$ beat. I have no sympathy for these people. I commute 32 miles one way every day. There is nothing I hate more than people who think it is totally fine to drive the speed limit or slower in the left lane. If you see a car coming fast on your a$$ .. move over.
There are people on the roads who live for road rage. These people probably fit a certain classification of: 1.) Having anger management issues 2.) Not holding steady or decent employment 3.) Having some kind of police record 4.) Border-line losers These people are out there to egg you on and bring you into a road rage incident by inciting you to behave badly like they do. Your best bet is to avoid falling into their traps. If they do something stupid which you think is directed at you, then you should just not take the bait. Don't flip them off. Don't honk at them. Don't do what they do. Just let the idiot(s) go about their business of harrassing drivers because they want to implement their own backward ass rules on the road. Otherwise, you are going to get in an escalation and it could end badly. And, for what? Just because some jackass was baiting you into a road rage situation. I've seen it first-hand go from simple tail-gating into full blown road rage ending in an accident between initiater and bait-taker. It was just plain stupid.
There's no need to not let people pass. Then, you block people off and slow down, when they change lanes? They let you keep driving your 65 mph, but you speed up for the sole purpose to prevent them for making a passing maneuver? Then you slow down again? I hate those drivers that block a multilane rode and speed up and slow down to block you. It's likely to kill someone on a 2-lane 2-way road. That ain't fun. That's reckless and dangerous. That's a power trip.
To recap: OP, a tense situation, handled nicely. Good job. KLoLo: Dogtown is correct. Congratulations; I hate all that you stand for. You are a danger to us all; never drive on the freeway again. Good job. Is the goal to get people to quit following you? I don't think you're doing that right.
K LoLo, Please tell me you realize that by doing this, you're: 1) impeding the flow of traffic 2) causing the speeders to become more erratic in their driving and try crazy maneuvers 3) making even more dangerous situations for the rest of us on the road and endangering all of our lives as well.... Because really, if you do this knowing you're making everything worse for everyone else, then screw you. You're such a buttmunch I don't even know where to begin.
You're in an idiot. Trust me, if you keep that up someone is going to make you sorry. There are way too many crazy people or people just having a bad day out there for you to go around trying to be a jerk.
I couldn't help but laugh at the irony of your myspace page pictures you have linked to your profile. EPIC FAIL.
Honestly..... I feel like jumping into the computer and beat the crap out of K LoLo after reading his post. As for the OP, maybe that guy is a fellow Rockets fan who still frustrated with wednesday's game. He was thinking you are Kobe or Fisher. No... I'm not that guy.
