Left lane heros

Ok then we are at the heart of the disagreement . everything else is fluff
Either you believe the idea that cars passing trucks on the right is wildly dangerous and should be avoided at all costs or you dont.
I was trained with this as a huge imperative. I never feel comfortable having 4 wheelers on that side.

 

why not. it's annoying when they park there and just sit, but i'm not worried about them. if they run into trouble with something on the shoulder, i'm guaranteed to help the situation. flip that, if it's me in the right lane and they're parked to my left, i'm at the mercy of whoever tf is droning in that vehicle, if they are gonna move or keep me pinned like a fun little game. in the middle i literally don't gaf what anybody else does in the open lanes, my only real variable is line of sight down the road between my lines.

 

Yeah, they have those in Indiana in some construction zones and when the sign should be followed it’s mostly ignored by the majority of trucks.

 

The reason I have ignored that sign sometimes is because if the speed is 45 MPH, (which many times it is in that scenario), and I go the speed limit, I will get tailgated and #### near pushed out of the way. I just feel like I'm a hazard going the speed limit anywhere anymore, so I try to stay out of the way...

 

But this whole thread is based on running the speed limit in the middle or left lane, regardless of the flow of traffic, and letting everyone else dodge you because it’s safer that way. And you won’t run the left lane when directed to in a work zone because you feel you’re a hazard running the speed limit and not going with the flow of traffic. Seems contradictory to the theme of this thread, after all doing the speed limit and letting people pass on the right is just fine. This thread taught me that.

 

To be fair, the numbers adjusted by inflation are not even similar.
Just look at the cost of a home.
In the seventies , a home was never more than two years salary even in the most expensive states.
When you look at higher education its even worse.
No boomers graduated college with lifelong debt.

I am not saying kids today have no chance, but you better believe older generations need to accept the fact that lthey lived in far more prosperous times for blue collar people.

These kids have access to amazing things that you never had.
You also had access to things that are long gone like fairly priced real estate and stable marriages.

 

Mom and dad built there first house on a 13% interest loan. My son and his wife bought their first house two years ago at 2.9%.

I don't believe any generation recently had it better than any other, just different.

But somebody blaming the boomers on their own failure to succeed, ridiculous

 

Hahahaha. We can get OT after a few beers

 

In the 70s nearly everyone owned a home by 30, now its nearly unheard of.

Do you imagine this is because they are all lazy?
Yes I understand that some folks in the 70s still rented at thirty and your son bought a home at 25, but on average things are much much different today.
Should these kids wallow in their misfortune and play the victim? Absolutely not.
Back when those interest rates were brutal , people often saved and paid cash or at least paid down loans very quickly.
30 year mortgages were nearly unheard of
Also most people were thin.

Very very different times