In article >, Dave Head wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 16:44:06 GMT, (Brent P)
> wrote:
>
>>In article >, Dave Head wrote:
>>
>>>>I was driving just the way you perscribe. Me first, looking out for
>>>>number one, making my driving experience as easy and effortless as
>>>>possible. LLBing does that. I never knew how easy it was to just be an
>>>>LLB. No wonder there are so many of them. It's effortless, it's not even
>>>>driving, it's just being along for the ride. All the effort is passed to
>>>>other people. No worrying about people merging, everyone passing has to
>>>>find their way around, etc etc. I drove by your rules for those minutes,
>>>>my safety, my ease of driving, my everything, me first, **** everyone else.
>>
>>> No you weren't. I always said that there was almost always room on my right to
>>> get around. You admit to pacing a truck. You admit to creating a backup. I
>>> never do that. I _hate_ a line of cars behind me.
>>
>>I was driving just as you say. 7 over in the far left lane making things
>>easiest for number one.

> 7 over is fine for Rt. 3 east of Fredericksburg. Elsewhere might require more
> speed. I sometimes touch 80 on I-81, just to keep from getting run over by the
> trucks - either lane.

The ever morphing story.

> I'm generally faster than everyone else. Around here requires about 7 to do
> it. Elsewhere might require more than that.

Then you should be running into LLBs often. Often getting stuck in the
clumps of traffic they create or coming up behind the LLBs themselves trying
to find a way around them on the right. You should then dislike LLBs as
much as any one else in this group or more.

>>That's what you've posted several times over. And
>>what occured is because of the traffic conditions where I drive. The same
>>thing that will happen anywhere with real traffic. Yet you keep telling
>>me it wouldn't happen when I knew it would because I've been stuck in
>>those LLB caused clumps countless times.

> I don't cause clumps anywhere. If you drive in the left lane and cause clumps,
> then you're not doing it like I do it.

You are either causing problems for everyone else as an LLB or you should
have LLBs causing problems for you.

> Can't say about edens - but I was on the Cross County a couple - three years
> ago and... I really can't remember where I drove it. I'm sure there was no
> backup, tho...

I doubt you'd notice. You don't care about anyone other than yourself.

>>You are "outrunning" everyone at 7 over yet you're consistantly getting
>>ducklings driving next to you. You can't be outrunning everyone and have
>>ducklings frequently enough for them to be such a significant factor in
>>your driving straegy. I've found most LLBs think they are going 'fast
>>enough' and think they are driving faster than most, so you are no
>>different here. If you were actually "outrunning" everyone you'd be more
>>frustrated with LLBs than anyone else in this group. You'd find yourself
>>blocked by them and the traffic clumps they create.

> I consistently outrun about 99% of 'em, in the time-frames other than during
> the drive home.

Then you should dislike LLBs as much as any one else in this newsgroup.
There is no way you can out run that large percentage of other traffic
and not have to deal with them. Not come across them constantly and
consistantly where they are along side other drivers effectively blocking
up the road and your forward progress. You are either blocking or being
blocked given what you posted.

> During those times, I sometimes find others coming up on me,
> and some of 'em decide to drive on my rear bumper, either side, or sometimes
> tailgate. Most of the time, its not a problem. Still, I don't see a profit in
> constantly switching left-right-left-right-left-right all the time to pass the
> 10 - 15 cars I usually pass on the way. Plus, I still have no desire to be in
> the right lane anytime due to the previously mentioned pedestrians / bikes /
> cars turning off / cars turning on / and generally slow nose-pickers.

Pretty hard to deal with LLBs when you're too lazy to change lanes.
Pretty hard to outrun 99% of traffic without switching lanes too.

Bringing in peds, and other things not seen on limited access highways I
can only believe is to purposely confuse the issue.

It's really simple, your arguements are inconsistant. Either you are
being blocked by LLBs as you try to out run 99% of traffic or you are an
LLB as you cruise in the left lane. It can't be both ways and be
anything that could even be called traffic.