Slowing Down

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can roll all night
--Foghat

Baby Boomers are known for shaping all sorts of economic and social trends as their demographic wave has splashed thru time. Now it appears that they are setting their sights on driving norms.

I drive several streets that have fairly long stretches of unencumbered straightaway roadway. Carefree, easy driving. 

It used to be that I would rarely encounter a car ahead of me driving below the speed limit on these stretches. Nowadays it happens routinely. So much so that driving at the speed limit or above has become exception rather than rule.

The Boomers are slowing down, it seems, in more ways than one.