In my local weekly newspaper, the “Warren/Frederick County Report,” a popular columnist, Kevin Engle, wrote of a scenic road trip he made with his wife from Pennsylvania to New York. All went well until they got behind a “slow poke.” His wife advised him, “Be patient,” but as is the case with so many of us, patience flies out the window when we’re driving a car. Engle had just started around the slower car, even though the solid yellow lines on the road forbid passing, when an approaching car appeared on the horizon.
“I pushed down on the gas pedal,” he writes, “zoomed by the slow poke and got back in our lane.”
