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Old 03-10-2012, 09:46 AM   #39 (permalink)
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b) being behind a guy doing half the speed limit and unable to
pass for 30 minutes cuts my pay in half. period. how
would you feel if I came to your work place and cut your pay?
And yes this has happened to me several times. I didnt feel
that he needed to be "run over" but I though it would have
been nice for him to help me pass safely.


That's a much better explanation of what I meant by gut it out in the main: there's just no help on some days. As one of my instructors noted, "Bad enough they're slow, but mix in the type driver who has to use her hands to talk to her passenger and the speed is all over the place. They stop yakkin', she speeds up . . they start to talkin' again, expect a slow down". It can be a long, long afternoon on the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, from Montgomery to Albany, ha! I bet them old biddies wouldn't much appreciate it if I took 20-minutes with the cashier at the store ahead of them. And was in line ahead of them again at the grocery. And then the gas station. And the drugstore.

And those aren't PERSONs driving those big trucks, those are unseen servants below one's notice.

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