Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!rlgvax!cvl!umcp-cs!zben 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 Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.4942 Posted: Wed Feb 1 04:22:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 7-Feb-84 09:21:11 EST Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 29 > 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)