A casual friend of mine has a laid back cat. He posted this on FB today with the caption, "Can someone bring me a beer?"

I rode with a guy one season that was a contract nurse anesthetist. That explains a single guy living in a 3000 sf house and driving a Porsche Cayenne.

Mine is, except I was thinner when the pic was taken.

[Shudder]

Cruise control is a blessing/curse to me - the benefits are obvious, but the drawback is that it makes me more prone to zone out and get groggy.

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When is your friend passing the kittens off to Pepe?

Happy Cinco de Mayo!

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Heading up Mt Baldy this morning. Hope me knee holds. No cruise control.

Oh, and no work.
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The main thing that makes me sleepy when driving is sun in my eyes. Peculiarly, over a 35 year work career there was not one day I didn't drive east in the morning and west in the afternoon. Go figure, huh?

The main benefit I get from cruise control is avoidance of speeding citations. I find the speed limit + 10% is universally safe.

Is it a holiday in California?

That's about my rule of thumb on long and very open (in terms of vehicular traffic) stretches. When there's more traffic, I've recently taken to doing just under the speed limit - it's just too much fuss to continually change lanes, 'specially in the midwest where passing lane etiquette is non-existent and you run in to long trains of cars parked in the left lane because they're entitled to since they're 2mph over the limit. :rolleyes:

I don't think so. Kids are in school.

Yep, I agree that left lane etiquette sucks, but I do keep trying. Yesterday a guy was hauling a 40 ft boat in the left lane at or under the speed limit. Infuriating.

Oof

Oh?

I really wanted to enter some gravel races this Spring. But....

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That's why I go 1 mph under. It means that I'm being passed much more often than I'm passing and I'm not joining the left lane train and perpetuating it. I might get to my destination as much as an hour later on a long day, but more importantly, it's far less frustrating than wading through those idiots, and on road trip with a spouse, two kids and a dogs, managing frustration is key.

Received a snapchat text of 'i'm so lit' and then a few horribly misspelled beyond all repair and interpretation words there after late last night. Last night was concert night for her.
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I rarely used cruise control until we got the van. The Jeep, of course, does not have such advanced technology.

I've had to park in the left lane behind someone doing 1 mph over the speed limit. I usually try a high beam flash a couple times to see if they'll switch to the right lane. If not, I just pass in the right lane. This apparently bothers some people as I've been honked at by the left lane snurdles before.

I guess that's the highway equivalent of someone yelling at you when you pass them on a bike without saying "on your left" or somesuch.

It's in the works. It will read "La Vie Clare!" in green and orange letters. She's from County Clare. See what I am planning to do there?

Did you wave??

Lifted a couple fingers off the wheel. I'm a Serious Driver.

American drivers don't know what that means.

They don't know what a lot of things mean.

We have this ingrained car culture where it's a birthright to drive with minimal encumbrances for as cheaply as possible. I'd be all for far more stringent driver education and training, more in line with what they have in Germany as the classic example.

Of course, it would price some people out of driving entirely, but raising the gas tax to fund driver education programs for people who can't afford it would solve that.

Yea, vaguely P&R and would be unpopular, but I think we can all agree the quality of drivers in this country is very low.

Vancouver, USA.

Luckily I haven't gotten sleepy at the wheel since 92 or so, when we did PHX to PDX, with a 5 hour gambling break in Vegas. northern Utah had me nodding off.