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Originally Posted by Daekar
This is what I love about living away from the city... the average driver around here, unless they have been imported from the NoVa/DC area, is relatively courteous.
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I grew up and learned to drive in the DC/NoVa area, and my parents still live there. And that informed a lot of my earlier driving habits. I won't lie to you, while I still lived in the DC area and drove like that, I was kind of an ass behind the wheel.
Moved away, slowed right down, gave people the benefit of the doubt, the wave and the blinked light to tell them to come on in, I'm making room. And my drive got ever so much easier.
And now whenever I go up that way to visit, I'm one of the slowest drivers around, but I always have plenty of room in front of me and when other drivers are stomping their brakes, I ease off gas and let the gap close up...and then open up again.
Life is better in the slow lane.