pleasantly surprised

I was driving home from work the other day and when i turned the corner onto the freeway ramp, there was a long line of cars waiting in line for the meter. I was surprised that all these people were actually waiting in line even with the carpool lane right next to them, which they could've used to bypass the meter (which I've seen people do before even though they didn't have two or more people in their car). Every car I saw that sped past me in the carpool lane actually had two or more people in the car. It was weird to see because I would've assumed that most LA drivers would abuse the carpool lane, but apparently, none of them do, well, none that I saw that day anyway. Right on LA drivers who waited patiently in line that day with me!