Bill H., I know your type. Your wife beats you, your boss berates you and the only way you can express your masculinity is to use your soon to be repoed rust bucket as a deadly weapon.
Real man, dickweed.
If that’s your greatest dream, you really are fucked in the head. Do us all a favor: Rent a gun and buy a bullet.
I loved your letter, Hatshepsut. Very nicely done. (Egyptian fan, by the way?)
Honestly, though, who the fuck drives the speedlimit? I’d be pretty pissed if someon was on a road where I couldn’t pass them and they were only doing 30mph. I wouldn’t tailgate, but I’d be pissed. If the limit is 30, you ought to be doing 45+. But, like I said, I’d be pissed but wouldn’t tailgate. Actually, I owuldn’t be pissed, that is too harsh. I’d be miffed. Yes, I’d be miffed.
Anyway, if you are driving the speed limit on the highway, your ass better be in the right lane. Actually, everyone’s ass should always be in the right lane except when passing. Mine is.
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Come on. I’d be willing to be that less than 5% of drivers drive the actual speed limit. Let’s not kid ourselves. Even our glacial OP admits to a boisterous 1-5 mph over. 45 in a 30 is hardly uncommon. When was the last time you saw someone, not running drugs mind you, who was actually doing the posted speed limit on a free way?
E72521 wrote
Uh, no wife beatings or boss beratements. But I do drive a '63 corvair and though my wife doesn’t beat me, she would very much agree with your assessment of it.
I have no issue with people driving slow, friend. I have no problem with people doing whatever they want in the privacy of their own homes. But don’t you be lolly gagging between me and where I need to go. Some of us have purpose in life.
There’s nothing in this life more important than time. Don’t have enough money? Go get another job. Don’t have enough friends? Go out and meet some people. Don’t have enough time? Nothing you can do. Time is everything, and don’t you dare steal mine. And if you do, expect some feedback. How will a dog learn if he doesn’t have his nose rubbed in it?
Supposedly, out here in California, if the things can be heard more than 50 feet away from the vehicle, then they’re violating some portion of the motor vehicle code (at least, according to two different police officers in two different jurisdictions in California). But, I do like the idea just in a “That’s kind of what that tailgater does deserve, too bad it’s probably illegal” kind of way.
In fact, I’ll go a step further. I get upset when I’m passenging and the driver doesn’t tailgate a slowpoke in front of them in the fast lane. How can you possibly expect them to learn without feedback?
So, Bill, you’re saying your purpose is to drive like a maniac and get yourself and possibly others killed?
Actually, in busy traffic, say on 294 outside Chicago, it is the people who insisit on driving at the speedlimit, and not those moving with the speed of traffic, that pose the real danger.
Of course not, Monty.
My purpose is to do the things that are important in my life, which occasionally means using the freeway. I don’t get in other people’s way. I’m very courteous actually.
But…
Driving slow in the fast lane with noone in front of you and people stacked up behind you is rude, inconsiderate, and ultimately it’s theft. theft of time, theft of life.
Ultimately, murder is stealing all of a man’s time. And driving slow in the fast lane is some fraction of that.
I think I’m going to print out all of Bill H.'s posts in this thread to show to people who ask me why I don’t drive.
Bill: It’s not theft of time or anything else. It’s something you just decided to get upset about. How about if everyone else on the road decided to get upset about your tailgating? What then would be theiving?
Well, speaking just for myself, my wife doesn’t beat me nor does my boss berate me. I will admit that my sports car is an attempt to compensate for my small penis, though…
Barry
Monty wrote
Fraid I didn’t follow that, friend. You’re saying that tailgating is theft in some way?
As to my beef, it most certainly is theft. Let me be specific:
If nothing else, it’s just common courtesy. If I’m driving along and someone is coming up quickly behind me, I move over. It’s rude to do anything else.
I’d (literally) rather you steal a dollar from me than steal a minute of my time. It’s rude and it’s unethical. And people who do so need to be given consequences. Otherwise they’ll continue in their inconsiderate and immoral ways.
It’s just as much theft as your assertion–ridiculous as it is–as driving the speed limit is theft of the time of the person behind you. It’s also common courtesy to not intimidate someone into breaking the law. I would think that would go double for laws concernig the safety of the general public.
Speaking of incosiderate and immoral ways: care to guess who’s going to be found at fault when you actually rearend someone pulling that silly stunt?
p.s. You might want to reconsider your time management skills if you’ve gotten yourself into a situation that means failing to bullet down the roadways at extreme speeds is the only way to get wherever you’re headed by your target time.
Drat! Above posting should read as follows:
Monty wrote
I’m afraid this piece of logic always bugs me. My time is my own. It’s not yours to take just because I have it.
It’s not a “mistake” that I budgeted 15 minutes and didn’t count on the extra two that would be required to be delayed by some uncourteous person. And in the times I do budget 17 minutes, it’s my damn time. The fact that I budgeted in 2 extra minutes doesn’t give anyone the right to steal them.
If I work extra hard today and earn an extra dollar, does that give you the right to take that as well? No, it’s not yours to take. Same (moreso actually) with my time.
The most important thing is that this is reciprical: I would never steal someone elses time (not by design certainly), and I expect the same courtesy in return.
Also, for what it’s worth, I don’t personally “bullet at extreme speeds.”
It is not my fault you woke up/left late. You will not make me feel guilty because of that fact. There is a two-lane road between you and town. The speed limit is 55. I will do 63. Tops. I cannot afford a speeding ticket, and my road is a known speed trap. I know that your need for speed takes precedence over my limited insurance and I therefore promise to slow down and move as far to the right as I possibly can in passing zones. In non-passing zones, though? Fuck off.