Here are today’s Clovers – plural!
The first one is the one who does to the open road what a chunk of grease does to an artery. He blocks the flow. I found myself fourth in line behind the Clover, all of us doing maybe 35 MPH on a road with a 55 MPH speed limit but because there are curves, the Clover reduces speed to 20 MPH below the speed limit. These are curves that can be taken at 45 MPH using your legs to steer – but it’s too challenging for some to take them at that speed with both hands on the wheel:
The other Clover was yet another left lane squatter. I was behind this one for awhile on a single lane (each way) road that opens up to two lanes (also each way). Despite the right lane now being open and completely clear of other traffic – and with me and other traffic behind the Clover, he didn’t move over. I passed him on the right and so did everyone else. He just stayed squatted in the left lane, because that’s what Clovers do!
This is deliberate. They cannot be unaware that they are in the left lane, that there are other cars behind them and that the right lane is open. Yet they stay in the left lane on purpose. This is a form of obnoxious conduct one rarely encounters on a walking path. When people realize there is someone coming up behind them at a faster pace than they are making, they will step aside and let the faster-walking person by. It is rare to encounter a person – on a trail – who will just block the way. Probably because he’d get pushed out of the way.
On the road it is different. Clovers feel safe – and cocky – in their cars. They use their armor to protect themselves from the people they’re blocking and think they’re safe from consequences – which is mostly true in that most people will just flip them them bird and no cop will ever ticket them for blocking traffic/failure to yield.
This is why Clovers and their incivilities proliferate like weeds left free to grow.
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“On the road it is different. Clovers feel safe – and cocky – in their cars. They use their armor to protect themselves from the people they’re blocking and think they’re safe from consequences –”
Had one down in Florida slow driving on two-lane road and speeding up when I tried to pass. Then I caught an opening and flew past him. He went road-raging hanging out the window yelling getting up on my bumper and then dangerously went by me racing to the stop light.
As he was flying by raging, I grabbed the handy jar of roofing nails I keep ready for such incidents and launched it in front of his tires. Then he pulled up at the light and got out. I of course grabbed my metal baseball bat and got out of the truck taking a few steps toward him and he decided it wasn’t worth tangling with a 200 lb. man with a baseball bat and got back in his car.
Then I waved as I drove past him in the side of the road after the light while he was stopping to check on his FLAT TIRES. haha I know it’s bad and I shouldn’t have done it but you just had to be there to understand — Don’t fuck with me on the road. Also, I always have Backup.
The biker “easy carry” is used spark plugs. As long as your aim is good can make a mess of a windshield. The Pacific Northwest getting into freeway gunplay the last few years:
https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-interstate-5-king-county-shootings-gun-violence-wsp-trooper-rick-johnson-hospital-treatment-witnesses-investigation-vehicles-road-rage-black-chevy-gmc-suv-hit-and-run-collision-sr-520
https://komonews.com/news/local/deadly-fatal-drive-by-shooting-auburn-ellingson-road-milepost-12-washington-state-patrol-gun-violence-state-route-167-fire-aid-alternate-routes-suspect-witness
Yep Sparkey, spark plugs in one pocket and a .357 in the other. Guns seem to be the thing now and it’s getting a lot more dangerous so I do try to avoid trouble.
Had a pissed off trucker throw a large bolt at my windshield while going by him on a curve in the left lane. I saw the bolt hit the windshield right in front of my face and skip off! It hit hard and I cannot believe it didn’t break or even crack the windshield. If I had a gun I probably would have shot him. 2000 F150 windshield still has no cracks and that happened 15 years ago.
I’ve been riding a built 750 Triumph I got when I was 16 and still have it although it’s in a custom Cal hardtail frame, different front-end, engine totally rebuilt, bored to 850 with 11.5:1 TRW high domes and a better cam. Barely an original part on it but it’s still the same bike, I guess.
Damn lucky to even be alive after 50 years of riding. It’s too dangerous on a bike now to even ride on the highway and definitely too dangerous to be starting any shit on a bike these days. The back country roads here are excellent for riding.
I rode the white line for years on every freeway in southern California. Blew past cops going so fast there was no time to stop, oh well. Racing off the line at every stop light on Beach Blvd, until once I was getting it and hit 3rd and looked back as I was pulling away from a motorcycle cop on a 900 kaw chasing me.
The good ol’ days. hehe
Pfft…Eric, you are just upset because this kept you from being first in line at your new
Buc-ee’s in Roanoke. Admit it! 😉
Ha! No Bucee’s yet… But they are putting in a Sheetz on US 220… oy… vey!
Mea culpa. I thought it was Roanoke…apparently it is Mount Crawford. That may be a bit of a hike.
I visited the one in SC once…it reminds me a gigantic gas station Wal-Mart. Too big, too noisy, too many people. Although, I actually did find (and buy) an actual Rand McNally atlas.
Rand McNally Atlas? I haven’t seen one in the wild in years.
Not even at a Wal Mart.
Buccess is a joke.
I’m waiting for Eric to write an article about them and how the company sued an Alligator and won.