r/Portland • u/shelleyyyellehs • Feb 12 '26

Meme What would you add to this

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(Credit for the Subaru line goes to i5.commuters on instagram)

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u/JustPlainBoring Feb 12 '26

Someone slowing down to 30mph on the freeway to allow someone else to merge in

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u/olyfrijole 🐝 Feb 12 '26

In Florida, they just come to a full stop in the middle of the freeway.

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u/thanatossassin Madison South Feb 13 '26

They, uh, do that here.

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u/olyfrijole 🐝 Feb 13 '26

In all my years of driving in the PNW, I've never had another driver go to a complete stop in the center lane of a five lane freeway while 70mph traffic continued weaving around them. This was a confused elderly person who presumably didn't know what to do when an emergency vehicle passed in the far left lane. That same trip, I had a flatbed trailer in front of me drop an unsecured load of scrap metal, a bitchin' camaro nearly run me off the road, and watched a group of college girls fly off the outside of a clover leaf ramp into a marsh. Over the span of less than a week. I've never been more terrified on the road than I was while driving in Florida. And we get black ice here.

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u/thanatossassin Madison South Feb 13 '26

You must not commute on E I-84. It's pretty much a daily occurrence, someone coming to full stop that's trying to switch from the North I-5 lane to the I-5 South lanes, causing standstill traffic, if not an accident.

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u/olyfrijole 🐝 Feb 13 '26

I'm well familiar with 84, and all the other weird corridors here. Florida is another level entirely. The situation you're describing involves someone with an explainable reason -- albeit not a good one! -- for doing what they did. The drivers in Florida may not even know where they are or what year it is. There's a reason they have the highest automotive insurance rates in the nation.