Slow Left Lane Drivers are the Worst on Vacation
This past March, we took a spring break trip to Panama City Beach, FL, for a few days. It was a great little getaway, and since it was about an eight-hour drive, we got there with plenty of time to eat dinner and cruise around on the beach. Everything went so well on the way down that when we went to leave, we decided to take our time. We ate a leisurely breakfast, spent a little time at the beach, and even dropped a friend at the airport. Yeah, it took us almost 12 hours to get home.
Through the states of Florida and Alabama, we sat for hours in traffic jams. The worst part? There wasn’t anything causing them. It was just that stop-and-go pattern that slows traffic into what’s called a phantom traffic jam. When we finally got to northern Alabama and Tennessee, we thought we were in the clear.
My husband decided he’d drive home. He always says he wants me to drive on road trips, but then he spends the entire time in the passenger seat backseat driving. He gets annoyed that I’m a much slower and less aggressive driver than he is, until he finally says, “Pull over. I’ll take it from here.” Anyone who knows my husband knows there’s one thing that drives him more batty than anything else… You know that moment when you’re cruising along in the left lane, passing everyone at a nice, steady pace, and then, out of nowhere, someone swerves over in front of you going way slower? Not only do they cut you off, but then they just sit there, refusing to move back over, even though the right lane is wide open…