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You're not fooling. In rural areas I pretty much stick to the rightmost lane except to pass the occasional pokey little puppy. In urban areas I tend to drive in the next-to-rightmost lane to avoid being cut off by inattentive drivers as they make a last minute dash across two or more lanes of traffic to catch their exit, as well as by those entering the highway who have no idea about proper merging technique or basic driving etiquette.
I had a couple of hair-raising opportunities to "test" the brakes this week on a trip back up the East Coast to my home in New England. In one case a car that had been stopped in the breakdown lane suddenly launched itself (at slow speed) in front of cars in the right-hand lane, who thought it was much better to swerve into my lane without looking than it was to "test" their own brakes. In the second episode, a car in the D.C. area that briefly straddled the far right lane and an exit ramp very nearly smashed into the crash attenuation barrels--I thought he was a goner--swerving miraculously at the last minute into the right lane and almost into mine. Even if you feel as though you're prepared for anything, you'll still be surprised from time to time.
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