Posted on 05/29/2011 12:00:23 PM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
What I hate is the phaser that does it right behind you in the right lane. They’ll come up behind you 10-15 MPH faster than you, get right up on your bumper instead of passing, then let off the gas and back off about 100 yards, then surge right up on your bumper again in a never-ending cycle. Frickin’ weirdos. Your only choice is to pull over or push it up fast enough to lose them.
See #201 (my reply to The Phaser). These people need thump-therapy.
EXACTLY!!! If that is not your goal, get off the freeway!
Speaking of profiles, mine don’t look so good anymore either. Thanks for the laugh.
Now -that’s- what I’m talking about!
MY personal favorite.
Some of us in tiny cars have to take even that much of a bump very seriously or leave the oil pan behind.
How about the vacuum powered wipers. In seattle they are worse than useless.:)
I’d have to say that after a few miles of that I’d be thinking hard of a way to take a few of them out.
Three methods I’ve employed over the years to avoid risk, in order of priority that works for me:
1) Allow more time for travel.
2) Avoid proximity of leading vehicle.
3) Minimize lane changes.
I also yield to aggressive drivers.
Vaccuum powered wipers were pretty much history by the late fifties. You’re right-they are useless, and they slow down when you need them the most.
Have you tried rubbing Bounce softener sheets on your car?
I think you have a problem with traffic cling.
I’d prefer a GAU-8...
>>At high speeds that’s attempted murder and should be met with deadly force.<<
Attempted murder is a frame of mind. And the type of person who they do it to does not understand the meaning of the phrase “deadly force”. :)
BTW, one of the two people was an amateur race driver and a CIO of a very large corporation. He made this claim in front of several hundred people - while speaking at a podium. This was around 1992.
As things get more “stressfull”, more and more people are acting out against those who block the passing lane. Again, it is why more and more states are cracking down on it. If someone is in that lane and not passing someone, and a car comes up behind them, it will be wise for them to pull to the right.
>>Tailgating is aggressive behavior.<<
Yes, and like all aggressive behavior, it has its place. Even on the road. I’m a huge fan of Louie L’Amour novels about the old west. He writes them from the perspective of historical accuracy. Real men really do get aggressive when it is called for. They are willing to risk pissing off another man when the other man is infringing on his territory. Those are the “mens men” and the ones that get the girl. And this is actually true in real life today.
One place it is most definitely called for is on freeways with road hogs in the passing lane. I’m not talking about the guy that is passing another car, even relatively slowly, but the real road blockers, whether they are doing it intentionally or they are oblivious. And if flashing your lights at them doesn’t do the job, it is time to up the stakes. Is it risky? You bet. Life is risk.
>>Vaccuum powered wipers were pretty much history by the late fifties<<
Yeah, and why it was doubly annoying on a 1963 car.
I think L’amour may be making a comeback. Costco is selling 7 of his books on tape, and the naration and voices are by Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Waylin Jennings and Kris Kristoferson. I bought it and it’s pretty darned entertaining.
Back in L’Amour’s day, prize fighting was what football is today. The funny thing is, when “good men” fight each other in his stories, they shake hands afterwards and become friends, even when the fight was about one rancher trying to “steal” chunks of his neighbor’s land.
I purchased his entire collection in hardback at an estate sale a few weeks ago. Roughly a hundred books, including his “crime stories” compilations. Some of the books are over-simplistic, but they are a lot of fun and he really does paint pictures well, as a man who loved the desert.
I also have his autobiography. And many of his books on tape include 10 minutes or more of him describing the real old west, the 2,000 plus gunfighters he cataloged and the actual characters from that time he ran across in his travels. Interestingly, there is no sex in his books because he considered it irrelevant to the great things the men and women of that day were accomplishing.
>>past him.
People often do that because having a vehicle moving up next to them changes their perception of how fast they are going.<<
My wife and I joke about that. I can do the speed limit, happy as a clam, when on the open road. But get me into traffic and my mind seems to go into this mode: If I am going the same speed as the rest of the cars around me, I am not moving. I HAVE TO be driving faster than the traffic around me and it is a conscious effort to go with the flow. It’s not quite that dramatic, but it is there. I don’t have to be driving much faster. A mile or two per hour will do it. It’s some weird psychological defect.
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