Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!hasmed!qusavx!ukma!sean From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Idiots Message-ID: <487@ukma.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Jan-85 19:39:18 EST Article-I.D.: ukma.487 Posted: Fri Jan 11 19:39:18 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 06:00:50 EST References: <154@abnji.UUCP> Organization: Univ. of KY Mathematical Sciences Lines: 46 >Idiots on the highway. While driving to work this morning on I-287, >something happened to me that happens much too often for my temper. >I was cruising along in the fast lane at XX miles per hour, preparing to pass >these two cars going XX-10 miles per hour. When I had approached almost next >to the rear car, the cretin pulled out to pass the front car at XX-5 MPH. >This he could have done at any point in the minute during which I was >approaching these two, but he waited until I would be forced to hit >my brakes. Once past the front car, I finally had to pass the cretin >on the right. Any ideas on how to handle these incompetants? Happens to me *all the time*. It is called "aggressive driving", the very thing "drive defensively" is supposed to prevent you from doing. There is no real solution I can think of without being an even bigger asshole. I would either: 1) Honk on my horn. Not just a little honk either! Lean on it! I keep it blasting until I feel better! 2) Speed up just as you come up to pass. Not recommended. Excess speed invites accidents. The thing that irritates me the very most: You are approaching your exit, have jockeyed for position, and have managed to get a good spot. You ease back just a little to maintain a safe stopping distance from the car ahead... When some laserbrain passes you on the left, hits his brakes, and zips in front of you so he can take the exit. (May the fleas of a thousand camels...) (Where's my Uzi???) I am so paranoid about this that I now follow people close enough that it would be suicide to cut in. Sigh. Maybe we could take Gallagher's suggestion. Everyone has a dart gun, and when you see someone being an asshole, you shoot his bumper with a dart. Then if a cop sees a car with 10 or more darts, he arrests him for being an asshole! Sean Casey