highways

I'll be the first to admit that I tend to rant a lot about cars here at wobm.com (especially after last week's article about "left lane campers"). Yesterday I was driving up to my mother's house on the Parkway and I feel like I saw everything; left lane campers, speeders, tailgaters, and the dreaded collection of rubberneckers.

Here's the scenario - you're on your way to work, traffic is crowded but not terrible. Traffic in the middle and right lanes of the Garden State Parkway is bunching up so you get into the left lane to pass the crowd. Suddenly you come up on a vehicle in the "passing lane" taking their sweet time and you have to slow way down. You have just encountered a "left lane camper" (and