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sarah bennett
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Nancy Young wrote:
> "sarah bennett" <[email protected]> wrote
>
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>>I only get ******** at the real jackasses. The Suburban Assault Vehicles
>>with the brights shining in my rearview, trying to go 60 on surface
>>streets in the snow, the choads who, when all you are trying to do is
>>maneuver around the guy in your original lane who was going 10 under the
>>speed limit, race up behind you and act as if 70 isn't fast enough for the
>>left lane (I gently slow down to the speed limit for those guys, though I
>>have been told that this is dangerous, and will just **** these people off
>>more).
>
>
> Heh, I know where you're coming from but that is something that
> could drive someone to road murder. And once in a while, every once
> in a blue moon, you hear about someone getting a (YESSSSS!!) ticket
> for driving in the left lane without passing. So long as I was passing at
> a decent clip I wouldn't let the jerks push me too hard. But I do pass
> and move out of the way.
>
Oh, I don't mean merging into the left lane and staying there. I mean,
merging over for all of 20 seconds, only to have someone come up within
a few feet of your bumper because they want to go 105 all the time.
> Of course, if I'm stuck in a line behind someone blithely driving along
> in the passing lane causing a major logjam, I wouldn't want anyone to
> hear what I have to say, it usually involves idiots and them not noticing
> they are leading a (your favorite bad word here) parade! That's the
> recap of a much longer tantrum but you get the idea.
>
>
>>Those really special folks who can't seem to pick a lane to drive in. For
>>the most part, though, I'm pretty easygoing about driving. It always
>>amuses me when someone passes me in that manner that shows how much faster
>>they think you should be going, and then get stopped up at the next light.
>>
>
>
> Around here it's good sport to watch the local college kids do that. As
> a matter of fact, I think mom or dad should discreetly follow their child's
> trip to school a couple of times, bet we'd see some of them taking the bus
> after that. The students are fearless and LATE for class.
It doesnt take a college degree to figure out how the ligts on a given
street are timed. I know exactly how much to speed to catch all the
green lights on my way home from my mom's for instance.
--
saerah
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disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
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what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
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> "sarah bennett" <[email protected]> wrote
>
>
>>I only get ******** at the real jackasses. The Suburban Assault Vehicles
>>with the brights shining in my rearview, trying to go 60 on surface
>>streets in the snow, the choads who, when all you are trying to do is
>>maneuver around the guy in your original lane who was going 10 under the
>>speed limit, race up behind you and act as if 70 isn't fast enough for the
>>left lane (I gently slow down to the speed limit for those guys, though I
>>have been told that this is dangerous, and will just **** these people off
>>more).
>
>
> Heh, I know where you're coming from but that is something that
> could drive someone to road murder. And once in a while, every once
> in a blue moon, you hear about someone getting a (YESSSSS!!) ticket
> for driving in the left lane without passing. So long as I was passing at
> a decent clip I wouldn't let the jerks push me too hard. But I do pass
> and move out of the way.
>
Oh, I don't mean merging into the left lane and staying there. I mean,
merging over for all of 20 seconds, only to have someone come up within
a few feet of your bumper because they want to go 105 all the time.
> Of course, if I'm stuck in a line behind someone blithely driving along
> in the passing lane causing a major logjam, I wouldn't want anyone to
> hear what I have to say, it usually involves idiots and them not noticing
> they are leading a (your favorite bad word here) parade! That's the
> recap of a much longer tantrum but you get the idea.
>
>
>>Those really special folks who can't seem to pick a lane to drive in. For
>>the most part, though, I'm pretty easygoing about driving. It always
>>amuses me when someone passes me in that manner that shows how much faster
>>they think you should be going, and then get stopped up at the next light.
>>
>
>
> Around here it's good sport to watch the local college kids do that. As
> a matter of fact, I think mom or dad should discreetly follow their child's
> trip to school a couple of times, bet we'd see some of them taking the bus
> after that. The students are fearless and LATE for class.
It doesnt take a college degree to figure out how the ligts on a given
street are timed. I know exactly how much to speed to catch all the
green lights on my way home from my mom's for instance.
--
saerah
"Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a
disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice."
-Baruch Spinoza
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There
is another theory which states that this has already happened."
-Douglas Adams