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I've got a good tale from this morning's commute on I-135. So I was happily P&G-ing along up to 60, down to 45 and hitting my flashers briefly for oncoming cars. This group of cars comes up behind me - like 4 cars....2 in each lane, so some of them couldn't pass me. When I encounter this, my procedure is to not hit the flashers, but speed up to my pulse speed and hold it - so that no one gets stuck behind me when I'm going 45. I do this, but the car behind me comes to a three foot following distance and proceeds to flash me with his high-beams, once and then again - yes, I'm thinking, I do in fact know that I'm going slow...thanks. He hangs out back there some more...even after he could have passed - continuing to hit his highbeams. So I decide to have some fun, probably not a wise decision, but it is what it is. So everytime he flashes me, I hit my hazards for a few seconds. This goes on for about a mile, before he pulls around, honks and speeds off.

The funniest part is that I couldn't really tell what kind of car it was when he was behind me - I'm thinking something big, macho, or sporty - mostly from past experience. but no - it was a mid 90's buick roadmaster wagon....fake wood trim and all.

The world is a wild and weird place.

People act like changing lanes is more difficult than brain surgery. You just can't help some folks.

People act like changing lanes is more difficult than brain surgery.

lol thats so true.

king, isn't the psl 60, same as your pulse top end? Getting flashed at the psl is off the deep end. Or were you N of town?

People act like changing lanes is more difficult than brain surgery.
Well it is extremely difficult. That's why I don't change lanes any more.

king, isn't the psl 60, same as your pulse top end? Getting flashed at the psl is off the deep end. Or were you N of town?


I actually don't live in Wichita - I live about 70 miles north. I commute everyday. PSL at this time was 70. It occurred just north of Mcpherson.

i love how people try to make you drive the way they do. Boy do they get a surprise from me.

People act like changing lanes is more difficult than brain surgery. You just can't help some folks.

It actually worries me because some people stay behind me so long and never go around. Makes me think that they are too inept to change lanes. If so, that makes them potentially very dangerous on the highway.

It actually worries me because some people stay behind me so long and never go around. Makes me think that they are too inept to change lanes. If so, that makes them potentially very dangerous on the highway.
OTOH you also have the creative lane changers. Today after I had stopped at a red light, the woman behind me swung into the left turn lane as the light changed to green and then passed me right in the intersection. Which put her just ahead of me at the next intersection, where the light was also red. Right after that we both got onto I-95 and she whizzed off into the distance. She risked a pretty good ticket to save max 5 seconds???

She risked a pretty good ticket to save max 5 seconds???

Reminds me of the guy who passed me, quite illegally, two mornings in a row - double yellow line both days, same place. On the first day ten miles later he cuts in front of me to make a left turn. So for the next three miles I follow him. The second day he didn't do as well as he had to fall in behind me at the same left run and follow me for the next three miles until I made my exit. He would have done much better if he had made a better choice on which road to take the cover the intervening ten miles.