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From: kevin@voder.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: left lane hogging
Message-ID: <568@voder.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Dec-84 12:18:49 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec 17 12:18:49 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.
   Pretend you don't care.  Just follow behind, never tailgating, never
crowding, not a care in the world.  Make them forget all about you. 
Then when they slip and give you passing room BLOW THEIR DOORS OFF!!!
Also, I wired a switch to my back-up lights (which I had replaced with
halogen fog lamps for better reverse vision) to a momentary switch on
the steering column, now when they flash their brights at me I flash them
right back!  Childish perhaps, but sole-satisfying.
   Remember, George Carlin says that any one going slower than you is a
moron, and any one going faster is an idiot.

-- 
Kevin Thompson   {ucbvax,ihnp4!nsc}!voder!kevin

"It's sort of a threat, you see.  I've never been very good at them
  myself but I'm told they can be very effective."