Which lane on the freeway are you?

tonight, as i drove home from guy's office where i worked again today, i stayed in the slow slow lane, then moved to the slow lane. man, those people drive so slow! why?? i'm a beginner, and i know how to handle 75mph. why was i in the slow lane, you might wonder if you happen to be one of 4 people who read this...well, my car was being weird today. it was shuddering when i started it up and then it "stalled" i guess? i don't know, anyway, it quit at a stoplight and i totally panicked, but got it going. i am horrified, nothing less than horrified, at the thought of stalling on the freeway and being in the center lane, or the lane just left of that lane, where i usually cruise. the idea of the car just stopping, just the thought, makes all the blood run out of my head in a hot rush.

as i drove 55mph in the second-to-right lane, this got me thinkin'. each lane on the freeway seems to have a particular personality occupying it. far right is retarded, plainly put. next to that is maybe beginners who are more scared than me, somehow, or really old people, or moms with newborn babies they'd rather not have in a car at all.

the center lane is people who know how to hit 70mph, but might brake for the turns in the freeway (of which there are tons here in the BA), and will most likely brake when hitting that slalom heading north after the golden gate bridge. then we have the lane just left of that which feels good to me. non-brakers on the slalom, but no one going 80mph, that's for the far left lane. those people...that's where guy drives in his heavy mini-suv. that's where you find young men driving mercedes sedans and porsche cayennes. their base speed seems to be 80. they are the maniacs who think nothing of crossing 5 lanes to the right to gain a couple feet that their crazy-lane wouldn't allow. and while i don't like this lane, i do drive it when i go to napa, on the long stretches between novato and sear's point, and if anyone, ANYONE going slower than 75 is in that lane...well, sometimes i act aggressively.

all this slow driving today got me thinking. which lane in the highway are you? far right? next to far right? center? next one over to the left? one more over from that? and then i see this when i get home.