Sometimes I’ll pull over in that case anyway, in the hopes that the tailgaiter will be a lot more annoying to the car in front of me than I ever would be, and might encourage them to move out of the way so we can both go faster.
Here’s what upsets me. I’m in the left lane along with half the population of the state, we are all moving at the same speed, there’s really no breaks anywhere. But I’m maintaining maybe a 3-car-length gap, because it’s safer than nothing. And the guy behind me pulls to the right, passes me, and cuts me off into my gap. Then the next car and the next car do the same thing. They aren’t getting anywhere, except in front of me. That’s annoying.
Once in a while, if I get tired of it, and my resolve falters, I will wait for a good gap, pass all of them who passed me on the right, and then force myself back in front of them. What, are they going to complain, since they just did it to me?
I don’t usually do that though, since it is counter-productive. (It’s a trick you can use on line-cutters at theme parks. Let them cut. Wait a while, and when the line moves, simply cut back in front of them and whoever it was they “joined up with”. If you can get the whole line to do it, you can push a good 20-30 people past the line-cutters. And what are they going to do, complain to the park police that people they just cut in front of are cutting back?)
I don’t usually do that though, since it is counter-productive. (It’s a trick you can use on line-cutters at theme parks. Let them cut. Wait a while, and when the line moves, simply cut back in front of them and whoever it was they “joined up with”. If you can get the whole line to do it, you can push a good 20-30 people past the line-cutters. And what are they going to do, complain to the park police that people they just cut in front of are cutting back?)
It is like reading a script of a John Wayne movie.