The one really frustrating thing about living in Middle Tennessee is that folks around here have no clue how to drive on a freeway. One of my co-workers is originally from Memphis (West Tennessee) and she agrees. The majority of drivers on the freeways (they call them interstates....I will call them freeways) would last exactly 5 seconds on a Bay Area freeway. They don't know how to enter the freeway out here. Normally you should be going about freeway speed when you enter traffic. Not these Morons. They tool along at 35, and when you think they should speed up to get on the freeway and you back off a bit to let them in, they don't go any faster than 35. I usually blow past them. They also have no concept of "close the gap" around here. There is a large amount of Semi traffic in Middle Tennessee and thus large blocks of slowness occur on the road. But, it's only limited (by law) to the two right hand lanes. Now the fast lane is a diamond lane so no driving in it, but the lane next to it is usually clear. Do you think these idiots will pass the blocks of slow moving trucks???? Hell no! I usually get trapped in the slow lane until I get my break. I then show these morons how it's done back home. Two years of commuting from Walnut Creek to South San Francisco has prepared me on how to drive on a busy freeway. I pass one idiot, pass another, speed up to the speed limit of 70 and lo and behold, there is a gap the size of California between us and the next batch of traffic. I don't get it. The two idiots I passed could have changed one lane to the left and not have had to be stuck in a large group of Semis. They just don't care. I've seen idiots come to almost a complete stop on the freeways out here to let someone over. Apparently folks out here are courteous to a fault!!!! Or the ones that have miles and miles of empty road in front of them, but they are glad to putt along at 45-55 mph without a worry in the world. The limit is 70 idiot.....that's for a reason!!!! We also have what I think is a stupid State Law in regards to freeways out here. It's called the "move over" Law. It states, that if there is an emergency vehicle on the side of the freeway with it's lights flashing, you have to move one lane over if you can do so safely to go past them. If you can't get over, then you are to slow down to like 45-50 and go past the vehicle. People out here can't handle merging and getting on a damn freeway, now you are asking them to jump over a lane at the first sign of a THP giving someone a speeding ticket. Just imagine how that works........it cause more backups and more confusion than it prevents Officers from being killed. Yep, that's the whole reason this law exists. Apparently the idiot drivers out here are worse rubberneckers than those at home and have run over THP Officers doing their duty or crashed into the Police Cruiser because they were looking to see what happened, and their hands followed their heads. I understand wanting to protect Officers, but this is not the way to do it. THP never approach from the Passenger side of the vehicle like the CHP does back home. No, they mosey on up to the drivers side, right smack dab in the middle of traffic!!!! No wonder they get run over. I miss driving around people who know what they are doing. In the Bay Area, everything and anything is off of a freeway. Out here, not so much. Lots of side streets and surface roads get you to where you need to be around here. I laugh at folks who complain about the morning commute around here. As if you can call it traffic......Hell these people couldn't handle the Maze, the Toll Plaza, the Caldecott Tunnel, the 80-101 split......they don't know what traffic is. In the city I live in, we have a new strip mall. It's actually rather nice. The street in front of it, Mount Juliet Road, has become very busy. I hear people bitch and complain about it the whole time. For my friends back home, picture El Camino near Hillsdale Mall on a busy Saturday.....that's the amount of traffic. Pansies......you don't know the meaning of traffic!!!!
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