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Re: Driving Pet peeves
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Subject: Re: Driving Pet peeves
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From: gt3220a@prism.gatech.edu (Tigress)
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Date: 14 Jun 1995 01:58:31 -0400
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Newsgroups: rec.autos.driving
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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David Glenn (daglenn@prairienet.org) wrote:
: This is about the most insane, stupid behavior I can think of. Oh my,
: a tailgater, I know, I'll slow down, that'll teach him. If the average
: someone is tailgating (or driving remotely close to you) it should
: send a signal to your hopefully driving aware brain. I am blocking the
: road in some way, what can I do to alleviate this situation (I would
: exclude crass tailgating just to be tailgating types here). What are
: you about 78 years old?
: This rates right up there with normal ice driving behavior in the
: midwest (bridges, sleet covered roads, etc.). People will fly along at
: 55-60 and brake as the cross each ice covered bridge. These two
: situations are the absolute worse times to hit the brakes.
I agree stopping suddenly for a tailgater is stupid, but I slow down for
them mainly for three reasons:
1. Tailgaters piss me off. There are better ways of telling me to go
faster. If they are going to piss me off, I will piss them off right back.
2. When some one is tailgating me, I usually find going faster doesn't
make them stop, and if I have to stop suddenly, I would rather it be
slowly for them so that they have more time to stop.
3. Tailgaters usually get the point when you slow down
4. If they really piss me off, I will go snail speed, and if they never
get the point, I accelerate away from them to show them that I was going
slow on purpose, and beat their asses most of the time too.
5. Most of the times, I am only tailgated when I am behind some slow
person and I can't do anything about it (that really pisses me off), so
how am I supposed to speed up anyways?
6. Last but definitely not least, tailgaters at night make me wonder if they
are cops, which does not help them get me to go faster. I usually go
slower 'cause I am freaking out.
People who get a constant distance behind me that is not tailgating, and
never changes either though (they don't get farther, they don't get
closer), I will usually get the point and speed up (unless I am driving my
parents car, which handles like shit on curvy roads so that I am not
comfortable going to fast, but at least I go 45, which is about the
average on that road). I slow down or do nothing for tailgaters though.
Tigress
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