usually have their headlights on, so you don't make that mistake..

That technique died out in the 90s.

but it sure is assholeree to do so. Shame on whoever is guilty of that

Driving 60+ MPH on a DIVIDED 4 lane highway headed north . Going around a bend and two cars stopped dead on the highway. Thank god or whoever for seat belts and brakes.

The reason - a funeral procession on THE OTHER FRICKIN' side of the highway.

Seems it is a Southern thing to stop regardless of it being a street, a road or a divided highway for a funeral procession. I NEVER passed a funeral procession on my side of the road, but I sure as hell would not stop on a high speed divided highway for one either.

The point of stopping being what?

on our two lane roads I pull off the road so as not to be rear ended if I'm in a place where I can't be seen for a ways. No way do I stop on a four lane though.
I just did this the other day, me an my golf cart IE mushroom hunting vehicle on a trailer and I meet a funeral procession so I continue until I get to the drive way I see a hundred yards in front of me so I can get both my ass and my trailer off the road.

Around here most times there will be a police car with his light on leading the procession as was the case here

He pulled off the road, got out of his pickemup truck, took the Stetson off and placed it over his heart. He stood still as a statue until it passed.

You don't see that anymore around here. Used to though, Some of the older folks did that.

The reason it stuck with me was it was something I'd never seen in CA.

Hope you're enjoying the day!

gotta run right now but later I'll send you a PM to update you on things Locust Grove, family and stuff.

Peace

So, because the typical American post mortem ritual involves having to drive from a funeral home to a cemetery, instead of on-site church burials which used to be the norm, then it has become rude to pass a dead guy in a fancy car, when you could have passed him every morning on your commute when he was alive?

Because, somehow, unknown dead people deserve some sort of "respect" which unknown living people don't?

I guarantee you the guy in the back of the lead car of the procession doesn't give a shit.

The dead are in no need of anything but disposal. It's part of the grieving process. I agree, though, in this case stopping was just stupid even if intended to be respectful to those in mourning.

I still need help with this.

A loved one of mine dies. We have a service at a funeral home and then a drive to a cemetery.

I'm supposed to give a great shit what traffic does on the way to the cemetery? Why?

about anything. News flash: It's not always about YOU.

Wouldn't it be nice to treat people with respect when they are alive.

Mourning my loved ones just never struck me as an opportunity to get pissed off at people on the road, but I suppose there are those who can't go a day without being upset at how someone else is behaving.

Just as it would be rude to drive through the Macy's parade on Thanksgiving.

Sure, you can be a self-absorbed twit and cut through the middle of it if there's no law against it in your state.

But I definitely share your frustration.

I beat the ticket when I told the judge I didn't see the hearse. It was a mafia funeral. The body was in a trunk.

You know that isn't politically correct - It's comments like that that make people think the Mafia are bad people.




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But, I believe it applies only to a two-lane road. If there are other lanes, it is perfectly okay to pass the funeral procession in the right lane.