1) You drive the whole way in the lefthand lane. The lefthand lane is actually known as a “passing lane”. This is not because they ran out of names for lanes that did not involve the word passing, it’s actually a description of what the intended use of the lane is. If you were unaware of this fact you may in fact be illiterately stupid. If this is the case try sounding the word out P-A-S-S-I-N-G. Now consider what you were doing in the lane the entire time.
Corollary 1a) People keep passing you on the right. Yeah, those people are probably jerks as well, or at least some of them. The fact of the matter is that you are clearly not paying attention to what is going on around you. Is that big pickup zooming up behind you at a mind-blowing 4 kilometers an hour over the speed limit. Maybe you should move over and *let them pass*. Novel concept.
Corollary 1b) You keep passing people on the right. Yeah, I get it. Apparently you are the only one aware of the fact that the speed limit is 63% too low. It’s clear that when this highway was designed no one whatsoever gave any thought to what a safe driving speed should actually be and the speed limit was totally arbitrary. It’s a good thing you’ve come along to enlighten us all.
2) You leave your high beams on all the time in traffic. … Ok, seriously. There is a big long line of cars in front of you. A long snake of red lights you can follow that will show you where all the turns are. If you can’t see that line of cars without your high beams you are too blind ti be driving. Which coincidentally is what the person in front of you is going to be any time now if you don’t start behaving like a respectable human being.
3) You drive at 70 km/hr on the 110 km/hr road because it is dark out and there is a little bit of snow on the road. Yeah, I know, you feel safe at 70 km/hr. You feel all nice warm and cozy, like maybe you won’t go careening off the highway. This is true. You know when else you wouldn’t go careening off the highway? Stopped. Please don’t tell me you think it is a good idea to sit stopped in the middle of a highway in sub-optimal driving conditions?? It’s also not safe to go unreasonably slow.