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Obviously, it\u2019s arrogant of me to assume that I\u2019m the only person in the world who deals with this on a regular basis, but who really knows; I might be the only one who thinks about it to length enough to blab about it in a brog that nobody reads.\u00a0 The point remains however, that this is still a phenomenon that I deal with on a daily basis, and I\u2019m curious to know just how much this is the case in places all around the country and the rest of the world.<\/span><\/p>\n But I can\u2019t help but feel like this is a behavior that spawned from life after the murderous peak of COVID.\u00a0 I\u2019ve said it many times, that I kind of miss the COVID era, minus all the senseless death and tragedies to people who really didn\u2019t deserve it, but if there was one thing that was really nice about the whole pandemic is that it sure as hell made the roads really, really nice to drive around on.<\/span><\/p>\n I never really minded the early onset of return to office, because I quickly learned how much more efficiently I worked when I was in the office setting, plus it gave me the opportunity to formally return to a gym regimen.\u00a0 But the commutes to and from the office were that of dreams, being able to leave the house at 8:45 and make it to the office at 8:57, almost nobody else walking into the building, almost always having an elevator to myself.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, I\u2019m fucked if I leave the house at anything after 8:35, and I usually get to the parking lot at 8:55 if I\u2019m lucky, and there\u2019s always a ton of other people headed into the building at the same time, and I often have to get into an elevator with 2-4 other people where inevitably someone will be coughing, peaking my anxiety about getting sick because we\u2019re long past the days of masks in public.<\/span><\/p>\n And in the midst of my obnoxious commute, is a whole fucking lot of this bullshit behavior; people camping the left lanes way long in advance, because they need to get ready to get on the highway, a lightyear away.<\/span><\/p>\n I really feel like this really started happening after COVID, because during COVID, driving behaviors in general kind of reset all over the place, and lots of common sense behavior and tendencies were forgotten all over the place.\u00a0 Left is the fast lane, right for slower drivers, right-of-way rules, all of that shit seems to have been forgotten, as lots of olds have died off and stopped driving outright, and there was even a point where dumbass 17-year olds didn\u2019t even have to take behind-the-wheel training in order to get a license.<\/span><\/p>\n But left lane camping, as what I like to call it, seems to have gone way the fuck up since COVID restrictions and return-to-office mandates have come into play.\u00a0 There are two major left turns that I have to make on my morning commute, and it\u2019s ridiculous the amount of camping that goes on, every single morning, by people who want to get in their lane that inevitably takes them to the left-turn lane they eventually need to be in, as early as humanly possible, regardless of how many other motorists might need to be in them, get into them, for them to make sooner left turns than they do.<\/span><\/p>\n There\u2019s a stretch that\u2019s jump into every morning where it\u2019s around four miles until you get to the highway; every single morning, commuters pile into the one lane that inevitably dead-ends into the left turn lane of said intersection as early as humanly possible.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t matter how empty the adjacent lane is, people will fight gangbusters in order to get into this particular lane so they don\u2019t have to worry about switching again for the next four miles.<\/span><\/p>\n And not only do they give no fucks about getting passed or how much they\u2019re inconveniencing motorists who need to turn in one mile, two miles or three miles, nobody is going to move them out of their lane to where they might actually have to put some effort into driving.<\/span><\/p>\n Heaven forbid you try to squeeze in at any point, because once these types of drivers get into their desired lane, they will defend their spot like they\u2019re a Spartan warrior against the forces of Xerxes.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, the second major left turn that I need to make every day is the one that takes me to my office building.\u00a0 The thing is, there are three different ways I can enter, but they all require a left turn to get in; my preferred one is the last one, as it is the closest to my actual building, but I\u2019m not picky, if I see that the first or the second one has a green light, I\u2019ll do it, just so I can get out of the petty rat race of left lane campers who will trudge along in a voluminous lane, because they need to get onto the highway that\u2019s five miles away.<\/span><\/p>\n And honestly, it\u2019s getting worse; since the school year started, and commuters are in an adjustment phase to their daily routes, to account for school buses and elevated traffic, I\u2019m finding that on my route home, there are tons of people now camping the left lanes on my way home, where this was not the case just a few weeks ago.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s among my biggest pet peeves now when it comes to observing the behavior of the drivers all around me, and it\u2019s times like these when I\u2019m stuck behind a bullshit line of cars in a left lane, while everyone in the adjacent and right-er lanes are flying by, I begin to pine for the days of coronavirus, when so many of these shitheads were simply off the roads altogether.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obviously, it\u2019s arrogant of me to assume that I\u2019m the only person in the world who deals with this on a regular basis, but who really knows; 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