Which brings me to my biggest pet peeve of late: People who cross the double white line (which is accompanied by not one but two signs saying “do not cross double white line,” just in case you don’t know that you are not allowed to cross a double white line) to move from westbound I-94 to the Hennepin/Lyndale exit lane. People, there is plenty of time to get over to the exit lane! You don’t have to move over the moment it appears, thus slowing down all the traffic behind you.

Regarding the issue of driving too slowly in the left lane:
Personally, I’m pretty conscientious about staying out of the left lane unless I’m passing. However, there are two factors that need to be taken into consideration

1) The Twin Cities seems to have an abnormally high number of exits on the left side of highways (e.g. eastbound I-94 to 280; southbound I-35W to eastbound 62). This means people often need to be in the left lane for reasons other than passing.

2) To the person riding my tail in the left lane: Just because I am not going fast enough for you doesn’t mean I’m not going faster than the people I’m trying to pass in the right lane. I promise I will move over to the right once I pass them. In the mean time, chill out!

Here here, Jason!

But seriously, dipshitwads who use the parkways/river roads to commute and expect to get anywhere fast need to die and go back onto surface streets. There’s a reason why the lanes are so narrow, you guys.

MN/DOT says so.

This is less useful than I suspect you think it is.

That. Is awesome.

I almost want to print it off and put it up on my cube wall.

You scare me.

1. People in this state don’t know how to drive; state troopers don’t know how to enforce the law by stopping wild drivers on the road.

How so? I think they tend to pull over wild drivers.

I’ll add #11:
People tend to bitch about the wrong things at the wrong times to the wrong people and, as a result, any useful suggestions they have are going to be ignored because no one wants to sort through the extraneous shit.

Is this supposed to be bad?

When idiots elect career politicians, it leads to large bureaucracy. Bitter about this unwieldy government, we turn against the small businesses, which we dishonestly lie about doing, but we do! Knowing that we’re liars, we begin to sweat the small stuff, often exhibiting this trait in selective moral outrage. In reaction, overpaid and incompetent leaders create a state environment in which the ends don’t justify the means, hence opening the door for government monopolies. Trickling downward, even our state patrol don’t connect the dots between ends and means.

Sitting in our cars, contemplating this complete social and political morass, we get sucked into a maelstrom of rage and depression, start flicking people off, tailgating, and swerving, all in hopes of somehow convincing our fellow Minnesotans to stop being so against competition in social-economics.

I thought the list was utterly germane to the conversation.