Stop Staring at My Rear End!

Stop Staring at My Rear End!

Subject: Re: Road rage, drivers tests ect... Date: 21 Jan 1998 00:00:00 GMT From: Amanda Marlowe Organization: ABSnet Internet Services, Inc. - (410)-685-2000 - info@abs.net Newsgroups: alt.callahans References: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 Matthew T. Russotto wrote: >> > Aggressive driving? Certainly -- but POOR aggressive driving on the > pickup drivers part. "Road Rage"? I don't know his motivations. > Something which requires new laws, penalties, and crackdowns? > Certainly not. Had a cop actually seen the incidents, they'd have > been covered under existing laws (speeding, tailgating, illegal use of > high beams, etc). *dreamy sigh* How I'd LOVE to see a cop pull someone over for tailgating. But I never have yet. Even when there are both cops and tailgaters around. I was exiting off one highway onto another with a woman riding my bumper. I've never been tailgated that closely before (though some of the folks who needed the extra two seconds came close). Imagine my total surprise when I checked the rear view mirror, and saw that BOTH of her hands were off the steering wheel as she fussed with her hair. Around a curve. Riding my bumper. At 55-60 MPH. Still trying to figure out what she was using to steer with. > *George Carlin once noted that "Anyone who drives slower than you is a > moron, anyone who drives faster than you is a maniac". Yeah, that sums it up very nicely ;) I'm also trying to figure out the motivation of people who whip around you solely for the sake of being able to jam on the breaks at the red light ahead.... Amanda

My Comments

I can relate with this writer's views on tailgaters and her own experience with one. I, too, ponder upon why some drivers insist on tailgating. Do they think it will make them go a little faster? Or perhaps, even scare the person they are tailgating? Sometimes, while driving on the road at a good speed, I find myself being tailgated upon. I find it amusing to slowly step on my brakes (even when there is no reason to) and drive even slower, just to get the tailgater on my rear upset or irritated. It's funny how the tailgater will get so fed up and eventually change lanes, to find him or her -self behind an even slower driver!
The last comment made by the writer also hit home with me. I often notice that people love to speed up on roads, trying to pass every vehicle possible, to find themselves having to stop at a red light. But what irritates me the most is when a person who is driving behind me cuts into the next lane just to speed up, overtake me, and cut back into the original lane, in front of me. What is the satisfaction of being ONE car ahead of where they originally were?



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