« Reply #1596 on: September 05, 2017, 08:06:47 PM »
Interstate driving ... while you're in the fast lane and keeping right up with the vehicle in front of you ... when a jack wagon of a driver speeds past to the right, even though he's fast running up on a slow lane car and has no reasonable room to move into the fast lane in front of you, and yet he continues to press and press and press trying to get in.
What this does is cause me to drive very dangerously, because his actions force(!) me to suck up to the back bumper of the guy in front of me, with a mere skosh a of a space between us, for the purpose of eliminating any chance of the aforementioned jack wagon thinks he'll be forcing in front of me. I will not allow it. Just won't. Can't do it. He'll have to hit me to do it. And these days I'm driving an aging pickup with enough dents and dings that I wouldn't be crushed if our vehicles actually do touch. Hopefully he's observant enough to notice those dents and dings and realizes.
This makes me C&A'd.
I couldn't possibly agree with you more. I see it all the time and it drives me crazy. Just because I keep a REASONABLE following distance to the idiot going slow in the left lane doesn't mean I am going to just let people in front of me to "steal" my 1.5 second gap. Even more ridiculous when it is MORE THAN ONE CAR ALREADY being slow- as if maybe they could do "better" at forcing people to go faster if they were just in front of me.
Or almost as bad, the idiot that TAILGATES ME because the car in front of ME is going slow... which causes me to then leave even MORE room because now I have to allow even more time for braking warning so I don't get slammed into by the tailgater.
And people thing driving fast is dangerous. Nope, driving slow (especially in the left lane) causes everyone else to get pissed and start doing stupid crap.
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