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From: graham@orca.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: re: left lane hogging
Message-ID: <1255@orca.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 19-Dec-84 12:39:26 EST
Article-I.D.: orca.1255
Posted: Wed Dec 19 12:39:26 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 21-Dec-84 00:55:43 EST
Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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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??????????

>>    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.

Nah! Just press the button on your steering column marked
"fire 20mm cannon". Works wonders.