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To: Kennesaw

240 posted on 02/26/2014 5:59:23 PM PST by SamAdams76
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To: SamAdams76
I resemble that pic, with way more beard and a ballcap.

This thread is fairly entertaining so I'll try to do my part. How about we all throw some bucks to our host so we can do it again next week.

I worked with a guy that had a most weird way of asserting his control over anybody. And he kept score. He bragged about it.

His commute to work was 10 miles of two lane and his objective every day was to score a larger line of cars stacked up behind him. He would leave at various times and poke along until someone would catch up, then he would speed up just enough to not justify a passing, then as cars began to accumulate, he would speed through the passing zones and slow way down through no passing areas.

I ride a bike, drive a sports car, tow with and drive a 6800lb pickup. If your blocking my progress in the left lane it's any easy fix.

If I'm on the bike it's tap down, check for road debris on the shoulder or between the side by side morons, blip throttle and dust you off. Yeah I planned to scare the crap out of you.

The sports car requires a little more finesse. You'll swear I cut you off when I get 1/2 a car length in front of you and I'll know I was accelerating and had at least 1/2 inch of room on the rear side marker.

I tend to keep the truck going with the flow of the right lane, particularly if towing something. If I'm towing and stacking cars behind a tow it's time to pull over and let them go.

I've been on the enduro in a traffic jam and made my own road.

A considerate and polite thing to do is not impede others as often as possible. That's also a prudent way to behave. We seem to loose our humanity in cars. That freakin' Buick, that dang truck, that speeder, those head lights! That is the path to road rage and controlling behavior.

I drove 10 service vans to 100k and the last to 30k. That plus my personal miles says a bit about my practice at the thing we call driving.

Totaled the sports car once, completely my fault for pulling left across two lanes of traffic. Never a scratch or a dent on anything else. Just move the heck over when possible and try not to feel smug about doing the speed limit. Your right to the left lane ends at my front bumper.

253 posted on 02/26/2014 8:07:41 PM PST by theneanderthal
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