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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
I was thinking of this thread today on the way home on I5N out of Tacoma. Specifically, "left lane Sallies." I was in the second to left lane, there was no car ahead of me for at least a hundred yards, maybe more. The left lane was packed with trucks and utility vehicles all spaced about four lengths apart, all doing under sixty.

Yeah, if you're not passing on the right, you're not getting anywhere around here.

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self-absorbed myopic individuals viewing the local region as some sort of later day City on the Hill

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Originally posted by PeterGV:
So many people making tons of money, who think they're special and super talented... and don't see to realize that they're extraordinarily lucky to have their weird little skills be in such high demand.

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Originally posted by PeterGV:

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self-absorbed myopic individuals viewing the local region as some sort of later day City on the Hill

Redmond/Bellevue/Kirkland have been my second home for the past ten-plus years. The level of self-absorption is only exceeded by the level of personal entitlement.

I blame the tech industry (of which I am part). So many people making tons of money, who think they're special and super talented... and don't see to realize that they're extraordinarily lucky to have their weird little skills be in such high demand. Go out to dinner, the people on the left of you will be taking about Microsoft confidential information using project code names... the people on the right of you will be talking about some super secret Amazon project using all sorts of project code names.

It makes me want to vomit.

Route 128 around Boston was like this a lifetime ago. I think I enjoyed it at the time. But that is another story entirely.