re: Poll: Do you use your cruise control on Interstate?

Driving between Ruston and Monroe, I'm right there with bhtigerfan, driving 75 in the right lane with the cruise on. I used to drive 85 or 90, but am no longer the baller I was before getting old.

The problem with a lot of the people on the interstate is they are what I call sheep. They won't ever speed on their own, and they don't have the balls to keep up with people driving 80 or 90. When somebody passes them, they speed up. They fall in line behind the ballers driving 85, and pass me.

Then they gradually slow down, and get behind a car going slower and drop to that car's speed. Sometimes the wife may tell them they're going too fast and they slow down to between 60 and 70. After I slowly pass them going 75, their anticipatory salivation begins, they yelp, "Oh boy, oh boy!" and speed past me. A mile or two down the road the wife gets on them again or they catch up to a slow car, and we repeat the same thing over again. God forbid another 80 mile an hour guy dives by again.

I used to speed up to 90 and get far enough ahead of their dangerous driving arses that they'd never catch up again. Most of the time I'm driving now is taking my 87 year old dad, or my 83 year old mom to doctor's appointments in Monroe, Shreveport or Lafayette. I'm not going to drive 85 or 90 with them in the car.