Wisconsin Bad Drivers

It appears that Wisconsin has a corner on bad driving habits - Yeah, I know have posted about this before, but this is just one more thing that seems to be strictly a Wisconsin bad habit. Every time I am on the interstate I seem to find these people waiting for me.

Okay, I will go over this one more time because it irritates me to no end.

When driving on the Interstate with your cruise control on, and exceeding the speed limit by 10 miles per hour, which you can get away with most of the time, you begin to approach a car in your lane, the right lane.

Well, the common sense thing to do is put on your blinker and move to the left lane to pass the slower moving vehicle. That's pretty much standard procedure. It appears you are going about 5 mph faster than the car ahead of you. You can see that there is a car ahead of him as well and he is going slower than the car ahead of you. Is that clear?

Now, as you approach the first car in the left lane to pass, still in cruises control and still going about 5 or so mph fast than the car in the left lane, and when the gap is down to about one and half car lengths, he turns on his signal, or not , and pulls out in front of you to pass the car that is in front of him.

You, of course, have to hit the brakes or you will hit him. Idiot!! There is no one behind you - the road is empty but this person has to pull out to avoid hitting the car in front of him. After all he isn't going to hit his brakes to release his cruise control for god sakes, get real.

He sees you coming up on him but he doesn't care that you are moving faster, he pulls out anyway. What's the problem? There's more than enough room for one car, at 75 mph.

This happens all the time around here!

In the previous post I mentioned this happened to me at least 15 times coming from Chicago to Madison which is about a three hour drive, 150 miles or so. It happened to me once or twice going to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, over 600 miles!

Does this make any sense at all. Where do Wisconsin drivers get their drivers training?

There are many more bad things that drivers do that seem to be more focused in this state than any other that I have been in. Maybe the problem is me. No way!