Posted on 03/11/2014 1:39:42 PM PDT by PaulCruz2016
>>>>to some here, that makes us passive aggressive Barney Fifes
>>>>These threads really attract them, don’t they? It’s never the aggressive driver’s fault, always yours. You’re too slow. You’re in his way. You’re a vigilante. You’re ignorant. The irony is that the aggressive driver is convinced that he is the sane one and you are the one who has psychological issues. Your neurotic behavior makes you a menace, and you are the one who is responsible for his road rage.
Nope, no road rage. Just a high level of annoyance when I pass you on the right using that hole in traffic that was too small for you to move into in order for things to work as they are are supposed to.
Just look at them when you pass them on the right, they are clinched up, staring ahead, pretending not to see all the people passing them and honking, determined.
It is where they get revenge for all the frustrations that life dumps on their little pinched, anal, little personalities, in their car they feel safe and in control.
If you read post 91, you can see how the cops despise the little whack cases, because for all their pettiness, they are dangerous.
I suspect you are right. LOL!
Wow, I knew you had gotten personal for no reason, but now you are pinging behind freepers backs.
It is totally baffling how you could create some sort of personal battle out of this thread.
Both of you are displaying non freeper behavior and for what, who knows, it is a mystery.
“Both of you are displaying non freeper behavior and for what, who knows, it is a mystery”
Maybe you can get the GA legislature to pass a law agains’t it. :-)
Maybe that passive aggressive behavior we see people do from the safety of their cars, takes place on the internet as well.
What set you off on this troll behavior on this thread?
Not so much their mind on autopilot as their car on cruise control and unwilling to step on the gas because (and you've seen it here) "They're going fast enough, and if they're going fast enough, then you shouldn't go any faster either"
BS - Age has nothing to do with it. They've probably been smug self satisfied jerks who like to inflict their ideas on other people their entire lives, you know the type - the kind that volunteers for covenant enforcement in home owners' associations. I'm over 70, and The only time I hold someone up is if there is someone in front of me that I can't get around.
In Ohio, about 30% of fatal accidents include “speeding as a contributing factor.” The police are pretty good at measuring speed and is it to be attributed even if speeding is not an actual cause of the accident. If a car involved in the fatality was speeding, it is attributed.
Problem is, it is heavily documented that in Ohio about two-thirds of the cars are speeding.
Statistically, this means that one is about half as likely to be involved in a fatal accident if one is speeding.
I’d expect most of the fatal traffic incidents aren’t on superhighways but are the consequence of more prosaic driving errors like running a stop sign or stop light.
That’s it in a nutshell.
My prediction:
The slowpoke bill will do nothing more than make the left lane a paradise for a police officer and his laser gun. There will be a dramatic increase in the number of super speeder tickets issued.
I need to remember to check on that in 1 month intervals if the bill is signed by Gov Deal.
This is fine as long as it’s balanced out by nailing the speeding scofflaws. Speed kills.
Give ‘em 5 over. More than that, hit the blues.
That should be TWICE as likely? Yes?
It’s why I left the Seattle area. The traffic became unbearable for me.
I have driven a LOT on highways around the nation. It is apparent that at night, especially, our highways are the domain of the truck. When I was 18 I did the standard maintenence on the three Peterbuilts this one guy owned that haled produce from LA to Seattle. I also unloaded the 40 foot trailers by hand. Usually it was boxes of oranges that were hand loaded (probably by mexicans), and I loaded them onto palates to be carted away by the forklifts. I also would drive the drivers home.
That experience (and the conversations I had with the drivers) is what caused me to NOT become a truck driver. ;-)
Nevertheless, They are the ones that both damage the roads AND pay dearly for the privelege to do so, so I don’t complain.
I drive from central KY to Chicago on a pretty regular basis because the grandkids live in Chicago. I pass a LOT of trucks. The one thing I watch out for is a row of trucks where it looks like one of them is going to pull out in front of my and pass the rest of the trucks at about 2 mph faster than they are going. I play a fun trick. As I am approaching I am aware that they are watching me, trying to decide if they should pull out in front of me to pass. What I do is, as I get closer, speed up dramatically. It usually throws off their timing, causing them to let me by, but sometimes it causes them to pull out while there is still a fair distance between them and the truck in front of them. If they do, I speed up even more and pass them on the right, enabled by the fact that there is still plenty of room to pull in front of them. It’s become something I watch for a LOT. It can take MILES for some of these trucks to pass each other.
As a truck driver I have seen, mostly going through Chicago, how one slow driver in the middle lane can cause a jam up several miles long.
It’s never the aggressive driver’s fault, always yours. You’re too slow. You’re in his way. You’re a vigilante. You’re ignorant.
But the dirty little secret is that except for a few very tiny pockets (mostly in the deep south), the speed limit really IS just a guideline. I’ve talked to a LOT of cops in my life and most will not pull you over unless you are going ten over or more. That is why the speed limits are where they are.
BTW, I drive a lot on an army base. Here the speed limit means what it says. And because of it, traffic really does flow at the speed limit. See where I’m going here?
I’d love the same policy to apply to all roads, AFTER they bump all speed limits by ten mph. But, you see, the current system is best for law enforcement because when everyone speeds it means that if there is some other “officially inapropriate” (e.g. profiling) reason you want to pull someone over, you can usually use their speed as an excuse.
But I digress into nuances...
The irony is that the aggressive driver is convinced that he is the sane one and you are the one who has psychological issues. Your neurotic behavior makes you a menace, and you are the one who is responsible for his road rage.
Don’t intentionally piss them off just to be a speed vigilante. To use a line from a 1960’s defensive driving ad: You may be right. Dead right.
A driver that does not take into consideration the fact that all cars are being driven by humans and that humans are emotional and, at times, irrational, is a fool.
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