Driving in the snow
I know I have touched on this subject so many times before, but it is something that bugs me to no end. I am sick of lemmings. People who just follow others blindly. Why don't they think for themselves? It is very frustrating for me. Especially on the roads. After it snows.
The lanes in the road become obscured, sometimes you aren't even able to see the dotted line, or the white solid line, or the double yellow line. But most of the time you can see it in stretches. So driving out of your own lane is still illegal, no matter what the tire tracks ahead of you do. You do NOT have to follow them. Legally you have to stay in your lane.
This morning I was on Hwy 610 in the left lane. It is a 4-lane highway, and we were crossing over the Mississippi River, and there is a shoulder on the left hand side (next to me). There also is a slight turn to the left. I was staying in my lane. Although the tire treads and folks in front of me were actually driving on the shoulder, in fact, the YELLOW LINE was to their RIGHT!!! Holy cow! I was taught to consider the yellow line as a brick wall that you cannot pass! These guys were driving THROUGH A BRICK WALL! Unfortunately it wasn't safe to take pictures, as we were traveling about 45 miles per hour. Then, a lady in the lane next to me, started edging closer to me (following "her" lane's tread marks). She was coming into my lane and was upset that I was already in my lane!!! OMG!!! If we could not see lines at all, that would be one story, but I could see where the lanes were! I could see that people were driving like pac man, and the dotted lines were going under their cars!!! And she of course flipped me off, and started yelling at me. And I can imagine her coming into work and telling her co-workers that "there was this crazy blonde driver driving a big truck that was cutting me off on the way to work" -- well lady, YOU WERE WRONG. YOU were driving ILLEGALLY!!! If you had hit me, YOU would have been responsible!!!
Bleh.
I have a picture that I took, later on where it was safe to snap a photo, but unfortunately it doesn't show the extent of what the drivers were doing BEFORE I snapped the shot. In this picture you will see a car with its left wheels on the yellow line. But a block before this, the whole lane had their left wheels OVER the yellow line (I just couldn't snap a picture of it while I was driving). THAT is A HUGE pet peeve of mine. The drivers going the opposite way were having a hard time "squeezing" by. Hmm.



