No, it's not what I want for Christmas (well, jewellery is always on a girl's list...). It's the string of cars driving in the middle lane on the motorway between Stockholm and Södertälje tonight on my way home from work.* Always when I'm driving I get so annoyed (in a calm way as I'm a rather calm person) with all drivers who stay in the middle lane, even though it's empty in the right lane or they are driving too slow for the middle lane, or both. Is it that so many Swedes are nervous drivers and stay in the middle to prepare for a shift of lanes or exiting (even though exits are mostly to the right) 13 km down the road, or because they don't want to have to change lanes if another car is entering (even though it's the entering car that has to yield and you don't have an obligation to move). Tonight was extreme with a string of cars in the middle lane even though it was completely empty to the right. Why?! In a way, tonight was less of a problem since there wasn't much traffic, but when there is traffic, which is most of the time, these drivers are really blocking off a big part of the road. The third lane between Södertälje and Stockholm is rather new (and there are now lights all the way) but if people are not using, what was the point of building it?!
* I decided to drive back and forth as it saves a lot of time, especially in the evenings.
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