Alan Weiss’s Monday Morning Memo® – 7/18/16

In Italy in particular and in most of Europe in general, drivers stay right unless they’re passing a slower vehicle. You seldom see high beams used or hear horns. It’s a natural courtesy, probably stemming from the fact that most roads are only two lanes in either direction, and traffic would move much slower if people didn’t get out of the way.

As they don’t in the U.S. We just completed one of our annual pilgrimages—to the Jersey Shore—which is just under 400 miles, round trip. The Garden State Parkway, Merritt Parkway, and Interstate 95 are sometimes four lanes, more often two lanes. The problem is people often won’t let faster drivers get by them, causing massive slowdowns and the increased danger of trying to pass on the right.

Some of these people are making a statement. They don’t move for anyone, they aren’t “giving in.” These are the folks with massive insecurity complexes who overcompensate by being offensive.

Some are oblivious. They don’t know there are people behind them because they never look in their mirrors and/or are too busy working their phones.

Some are uninformed. They don’t realize that the law—often posted roadside—is to “keep right except to pass.”

I don’t mind the extra time addded to my trip, and I’ve learned (sort of—it’s not exactly an eirenic experience) to accept it. But the problem is that these miscreants are not confined to driving.

I encounter people regularly who are overcompensating, oblivious, and uninformed (just read Facebook). As on the roads, they’re wasting everyone else’s time.

You can’t be a non-conformist if you don’t drink coffee.

from the TV show “South Park”

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