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From: an@hou2h.UUCP (A.NGUYEN)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Please move over, wait, FORGET the "please!"
Message-ID: <279@hou2h.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jan-84 20:58:18 EST
Article-I.D.: hou2h.279
Posted: Mon Jan 30 20:58:18 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 5-Feb-84 12:21:24 EST
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OK, so tailgating is stupid, I never argued that!

All I'm asking is, what's so hard about moving over? Especially after
the other guy has politely waited his turn behind you, flashing his
hi beams at a safe distance?

Are you too proud for that? Are you jealous that the SOB behind you
got more balls, or a better credit rating with the local PD, than
you? Would you rather play Russian roulette at 65 mph with some
guy who's trying to make time?

What really p*sses me off is when some big bozo think that just
because he is driving the H.M.S. "Invincible" and doing the speed
limit, he can drive ANYWHERE he wants. I pay just as much tax as he
does. I am entitled to use the road, MY WAY, just as much as he is.
Whether I break the law or not is my business. Who the %#@$&* is he
to tell me how to drive? Would he rather I pass him on the right going
a good 20-30 mph faster, startling him into bolting off into the
tulips? Fine, I would be GLAD to park him ANYWHERE he likes on the
median.

They never see you when you flash the hi beams at 200 feet, but they
always see you if you are sitting on their *ss. What the blazes is
THAT? SELECTIVE mirror watching?

Common courtesy says one should not walk down the street trying to
block the person behind you. Some people think that just because
they have 4000 lbs of steel and glass around them, they can
be excused from trivialities of life such as common courtesy.
No seat belts of course. These people think 2 tons of steel can
soften a steering wheel at 60 mph, or maybe even impart a lot
of friction to velour seats and polyester pants.

One such kindly gentleman, wearing a green Horatio Izod sweater
and driving a barf yellow Cadillac, felt it necessary to roll down
his electric window to give me the one finger salute after moving
over. The road was the Hutchison River Parkway in Westchester, NY.
The only way a Cadillac can maintain 75 mph on a road like that
is if it had just fallen out of the sky 20000 feet up. I had flashed
my lights at him from 200 feet back, for about 5 miles. It was
just about sunset, and not too many people had their lights on yet.
The only way one could not see flashing lights in the mirror is if
one is severely glaucomatous. (And speaking of flashing lights, if
mine were red, white and blue, I'm sure he would be over on the side
in a FLASH! Hmmm, JC Whupney sell those don't they?)

Au "Pass 'Em on the Right" Nguyen
..!hou2h!an