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From: hawk@oliven.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: left lane hogging
Message-ID: <768@oliven.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 14:49:52 EST
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Posted: Wed Dec 19 14:49:52 1984
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>> what do you do when two %$#*@#$&#s are going down the freeway
>> side by side pacing each other 20 mph BELOW (repeat BELOW) the
>> speed limit??????????
>> 
>> ...druxv!cdash

>   My strategy is to NEVER TAILGATE THE CAR IN FRONT OF YOU!  All this
>does is get the driver real indignant and pissed off that you would try
>to go faster than him/her.  All he/she will do is hold their speed or
>even slow down or speed up to keep you from passing them.   This is
>especially true for people traveling 55 in the left lane on an 8-lane, 
>split-level, divided interstate.

Another reason people (i.e., me) slow down is that we don't like you playing
with our lives.  As far as I'm concerned, once you tailgate me (note: this does
not mean trying to go faster than me; it means that I can read "Ford" or
"Peterbilt" in my mirror in nice big letters and that you are three or four
feet away!) you have lost any and all right to be treated as a civilized driver,
as you obviously are not.  I will also slow down so that if you do hit me, it
will not be as serious.   On the other hand, if you are simply going faster
than I am and don't endanger my life by riding my bumper, I'm more than happy
to move out of the way as soon as it's safe.

rick