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[quote=Anonymous][quote=SAM2][quote=Anonymous]Is there some law I'm missing that indicates the speed limit for the left lane is above 55 mph in area with a 55 mph speed limit?  And how many cars do you have to pass before you are just traveling in the left lane?  [/quote]
Well, I'm thinking of I-95 north of DC, where the speed limit is 65, not 55.  But regardless, I don't see what the speed limit has to do with anything here.  My frustration with left-lane squatters has nothing to do with what the law allows or doesn't allow.  Yes, I suppose you're within your legal rights to drive even 45 mph (10 miles [i]below[/i] the speed limit) in the left lane.  But that's a jackass move to block other cars.  And it's still a jackass move no matter whether you or the other cars are going below or above the speed limit.  Would it kill you to show some common courtesy and let other cars pass?  
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this is some pretty entertaining verbal ju-jitsu.

PP is talking explicitly about folks who drive the speed limit in the left lane.  (which I almost never see.  usually it's someone doing 5+ faster than the posted limit, but not quite the 15-20+ you and the others would like).  so you change the venue:  now we're not talking about roads w/ a speed limit of 55, but of 65.  And now you try to shift the focus to people doing 45 mph in the left lane on an interstate with a posted speed of 65.

that's a fanciful scenario...

Anyway, in my experience, the road-ragers like yourself are pissed off, not because a car in the left lane is going slower than the (upper) speed limit.  Or even that the car in the left lane is going *at* the speed limit.

You guys are pissed off that the car in the left lane is *speeding*--often by a singificant factor--just not speeding quite fast enough for you.  It's hilarious, BTW.  Oftentimes, that driver in the left lane *is* passing cars to their right--just not with the total disregard for everyone's safety that you guys would like.

And when you come up, roaring on their bumper, flashing your lights, [b]of course[/b] I'm going to take my sweet time getting out of your impulse-control challenged tantrum-throwing way.  You say it makes you incredibly angry?  Well, that's not really a shock.

I'll let you in on a secret:  usually that's the whole point.[/quote]

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