Re: tailgaters

[raf40@oes.amdahl.com (Richard Funnell)]

>>Once coming back from Ocean City Md there was a nice stretch of 2 lane
>>highway. But some jerk in a Hummer...tinted windows chrome
>>everywhere...decided that going 75 on a 65 wasn't fast enough.
>
>Yeah!!  Sometimes 75 in a 65 isn't fast enough fast enough for *me* either,
>and I would appretiate it if people like you would just move over!

At risk of extending this thread any longer, I seem to be reading some
rather extreme views on both sides of this one.  While I have finally
learned to refrain from some of the more extreme gestures when I am
tailgated, I still often tap the brakes.

If I am in the fast lane and the other lane is open, I deserve to be
tailgated and I get over.  I do getted ticked, however, when I'm in the
fast lane passing a string of slower cars, and some dingbat crawls up my
bumper presumably expecting me to cut off some slower car so that he/she
can pass.  Some of these people are crazy and don't deserve to have a
driver's license.  Unfortunately, crazy isn't just a form of speech here,
and you take a real chance playing games.

BTW, if someone had a real emergency I would expect the driver to stay off
my bumper while flashing the lights and hitting the horn.  I'd say
legitimate emergency cases must account for at least 0.05% of the
tailgating that I have experienced.


Richard Funnell,
San Jose, California
'83 urQ
'87 560 SL