Yes, me, too. I started learning to drive in 1967 and the right side lane marker was not yet ubiquitous. Popular Science used to run great articles about driving safety and many of those stuck with me. One of those articles taught me to look to the right side of the road at night to avoid looking at the oncoming headlights and giving you temporary night blindness after the car passed. I still instinctively do that.
These days in the San Fran Bay Area, the biggest money making business has got to be painting streets. Bike lane markings are everywhere. HUGE swaths of green paint all over the pavement. White lines everywhere. The pavement markings have become an incomprehensible crazy-quilt of stripes and lines. It's typical government -- never think about what you are doing and, if a little bit is good, a lot more has to be even better.
The very latest craze here is to put up vertical reflective posts on the right side of the road to separate the car lane from the bike lane. These things stand about 4 ft high and look like giant venetian blinds standing vertically on edge. Being reflective, they bounce your car headlights right back into your eyes. I've seen people totally confused by them and cars actually driving in the bike lane thinking it is another car lane. Or turning into the bike lane at a 4-way stop. The photo below shows the posts but it is a BIG lie. You almost NEVER see bicycles in those bike lanes.
