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One man's message to left-lane slow pokes

01:30 PM PDT on Wednesday, June 27, 2007

By KEELY CHALMERS / KGW.com and KING5.com Staff

The sticker looks backwards on the outside, but it looks normal to the driver of the car in front of you looking in their rearview mirror.

CAMAS, Wash. – Among the things you can't avoid in life – death, taxes and the slow driver in the fast lane.

Oh, you can try passing them in the HOV lane, but if you’re driving solo, the State Patrol will likely make you pay for it.  You can tailgate, but risk getting into a wreck.  You can honk or give the one finger salute, but then you're dealing with potential road rage.

Now a Camas man has come up with a passive-aggressive way to make those slow drivers in the passing lane move over, and it's apparently working.

J.A. Tosti came up with the idea of putting a thin vinyl strip on the top of the windshield with an arrow pointing to the right lane that literally tells drivers to "Move Over."

The words are spelled backwards on the sticker, so a driver looking in their rearview mirror will see it spelled correctly – similar to how emergency vehicles spell out "ambulance" backwards on the hood.

Tosti says it works.  Almost every time he pulls up behind someone, the driver moves to the right.

As for their reaction to him, "I've never been flipped off by anybody," Tosti said.

Tosti has been selling the decals on-line for about two-months now on his website for 29 dollars each, and business is booming.  He's even gotten inquiries from people all over the world wanting his decals.

He says he'll know when his little movement has succeeded.

"When someone pulls up behind me with one of these decals on, then I'll know we're there," said Tosti.

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