Following Jake home from PA to MA, watching his truck poke along in the right lane, enter the middle lane, then become increasingly frenetic with occasional mad scrambles in the left lane, I developed the personality theory of lanes (a somewhat hyperbolic description. I love all the peoples) Right lane: the lane for introverts, where you can stay in your own bubble without outside pressure to conform to things like speed, where interruptions only come at predictable locations (ramps) and where otherwise, there are only people on one side of you- you have a whole side cozily sheltered by a bubble of shoulder, curbs and trees. Middle lane: the lane for extroverts of the golden retriever variety, where you bask in the continual interaction of cars from all sides performing complex maneuvers with which you can choose to engage while banding together with fellow middle laners in an attempt to maintain a somewhat steady speed - the joy you find when your cruise control and that of the five cars in your caravan are all perfectly in sync carries you through the fatigue caused by using cruise control. There are people and options on all sides of you, and you arent hemmed in by impersonal barriers like shoulder space, curbs and trees. Left lane: the lane for extroverts of the lion variety, where you challenge the entire road populations assumptions regarding their own driving abilities with the demonstration of your command of both speed and the road. The only interruptions to your progress in said lane are of your own making, when you choose to digress into other lanes to demonstrate that the incompetence of others in the left lane cannot defeat you, at which times, you view other occupants of the road as an exciting obstacle course to be overcome and overawed. Your speed is only limited by your calculations regarding your ability to brake before police radar registers your speed, another exciting challenge, one not ameliorated by the lack of shoulder space to your left in case of collision...just as you would wish it.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 00:28:42 +0000
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