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Life in the Slow Lane....

I think the Flouride in the water is doing its thing...  Almost every time I go out, I come up on a car - or an SmooVee - that's doing either just barely the limit and often several MPH below it. The typical offender also likes to slow down and speed up for no apparent reason; the concept of maintaining a flow is beyond them. They'll wander across the double yellow - and not just in the curves. Then jerk the wheel to recover their lane.  And of course the limit itself is already ridiculous. On most roads, it is well below what a competent, alert driver can safely handle. So these slo' mo's doing 3-5 mph below what's posted are actually running (if that's the right word) 10-20 mph below a reasonable cruising along speed.  The main road through my county in rural Virginia is US 221. This is a broad, two-lane...

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