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Originally Posted by songman
I thought we had road rage problems in the UK. Going by this thread, US drivers are in a state of permanent meltdown.
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You have no idea. It's amazing. Even my mom - my sweet, little, 67-year-old mom - confessed to giving another driver the finger once.
To her credit, she's still ashamed about it.
I drive 59. Only 4 over in the 55 areas, only 6 under in the 65s, and people pass me no matter what kind of speed zone I'm in. I'm cool with that - and utterly invisible to all the police cruisers.
Muy bueno.
I am not obligated to go faster because someone else is. That's mob rule. And no percentage supporting a change in the speed limit is going to change that - because the speed limit is what it is. I won't be able to defend myself in court with a percentage, not when the speed limit says something less than what I'm traveling. So I'm taking the entire ad hoc, ad hominem, vox populis and whatever other argument anyone wants to make and throwing it out. It's all noise. It has no bearing on
me.
I drive the speed I drive. Pass or don't. I will not speed up for you. I do not drive too slowly - below a certain speed, surface streets are much more appealing than the
sturm und drang of the interstates. And if you are slower than I am (this is uncommon), I will pass you. I won't climb up your tailpipe and be a dick about things, I'll signal from a polite distance, add a little gas so I don't spend a lot of time in an uncomfortably fast lane, and move on by.
It took the wisdom of Rodney King to make us ask ourselves, "Can't we all just get along?"