Don’t drive 40 mph on the highway.* If you legitimately don’t care if you ever get where you’re going, take the scenic route. For reasons I cannot begin to understand, these people like to cluster in the middle lane of the highway I typically use. That means my options are: either drive about 70 in the fast lane, where all the people who want to drive 100 will try to murder me, or drive 50 mph in the middle lane. In a 65 mph zone. The slow lane is not an option, because that is full of people who got pissed off at both the guy doing 70 in the fast lane and the guy doing 50 in the slow lane and are zipping around inches from our bumpers at 100 mph. There's no way out. Once you get into the middle lane, you cannot escape. There are two many cars on both sides going twice your speed. It's dangerous.
If for some reason you feel the need to drive significantly below the speed limit, don’t give other drivers dirty looks when they pass you. Also, when there are multiple cars piled up behind you waiting to get by, and you’re driving 40 mph on the highway, pull over and let them pass. It's actually not just common courtesy - in many areas, it's the law. Plus, you know, you don't want to get shot by someone full of road rage. Speed up, take roads with lower speed limits, or pull over. Those are your options.
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* Large trucks using their emergency flashers are OK, because, well, they have a job to do, and the flashers left everyone else know. Plus, those trucks are usually in the right lane where they belong.
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