[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: tailgaters
>>Once coming back from Ocean City Md there was a nice stretch of 2 lane >>highway. But some jerk in a Hummer...tinted windows chrome >>everywhere...decided that going 75 on a 65 wasn't fast enough. > >Yeah!! Sometimes 75 in a 65 isn't fast enough fast enough for *me* either, >and I would appretiate it if people like you would just move over! At risk of extending this thread any longer, I seem to be reading some rather extreme views on both sides of this one. While I have finally learned to refrain from some of the more extreme gestures when I am tailgated, I still often tap the brakes. If I am in the fast lane and the other lane is open, I deserve to be tailgated and I get over. I do getted ticked, however, when I'm in the fast lane passing a string of slower cars, and some dingbat crawls up my bumper presumably expecting me to cut off some slower car so that he/she can pass. Some of these people are crazy and don't deserve to have a driver's license. Unfortunately, crazy isn't just a form of speech here, and you take a real chance playing games. BTW, if someone had a real emergency I would expect the driver to stay off my bumper while flashing the lights and hitting the horn. I'd say legitimate emergency cases must account for at least 0.05% of the tailgating that I have experienced. Richard Funnell, San Jose, California '83 urQ '87 560 SL
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