Sterling Terrell

I don’t know if I am getting older and simply grumpy or what is going on, but I am sick of the in-between of awful driving speeds wherever I go. 

The road I take home daily has this long stretch where the speed limit is 60 mph. 

I try to keep it between 60 and 62. 

But the truth of this road is that if I am not driving between 65 and 70, I will get run over. 

People swerve around me constantly. 

Driving on the interstate is another example annoying speeds. 

The speed limit is 70 and I set the cruise control to 72. 

But everyone in the right lane is driving 65 mph, and now I am the one swerving around people. 

(My theory is that many of them are on the clock and prefer to spend more time in the car than “working.”) 

So, I go to pass them.  

But now I am in the left lane. 

And, if you haven’t been in the left lane on the interstate in a while, let me fill you in.

You have to be going 80 freaking miles per hour to not create a traffic problem. 

It is non-stop breaking, changing lanes, accelerating, and turning the cruise control on and off. 

I am constantly irritated. 

Do you feel it too? 

Give me a desolate country road to the horizon with no other cars in sight, please, and thank you.