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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Driving Etiquette
Message-ID: <4942@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 1-Feb-84 04:22:53 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  1 04:22:53 1984
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> The last word?  Oh no you don't!  Not till I get in my 2E-2$ worth...
It seems to me one must differentiate on the amount of traffic on the road.
If there is a lot of traffic, clearly one cannot expect another to move
over immediately to let one pass.  However, if there *is* room to move to
the right to let someone pass, not doing so is:

   Rude
   Crude
   Generally an a**h*le thing to do
   All too common

I own one of the last of the great american muscle cars.  Too bad its 
cheap suspension starts to give out at 90.  I have no idea what the red 
line in third gear is.  The red line in *first* gear is about 50.  You
turkeys savvy?  How does spending a day in jail for 87 in a 55 grab you?
One responder likens the road to a queue.  That may be fine for a one-lane
road, but a multi-lane road is *designed* to allow the various users to
pretty much proceed at the rate of speed they decide is safe.  With the
slower traffic to the right.  G*dd*mn ****s*cking guardians-of-the-public-
morals notwithstanding.  If you want to play cop and slow other people
down to what *you* think the safe speed is be warned - I have run people
off the road for less.  Two can take the law into their own hands.  And
if I do take that job in New Jersey I hope to G*d I run into T.C. Wheeler
someday.  Bet your life I'll run *that* sucker off the road.

"My next car will have a grenade launcher, a mace on the front, and a
 bumper sticker that says: 'You'd be far safer *behind* me'..."

Ben Cranston    (flames to /dev/null turkeys)