Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site voder.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!nsc!voder!kevin 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 Article-I.D.: voder.568 Posted: Mon Dec 17 12:18:49 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:25:40 EST References: <1401@druxv.UUCP> Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara Lines: 27 > 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."