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Re: flashing lights to pass

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From: dv
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 1997 00:00
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Iakovos Stamoulis wrote:
> 
> Joshua Turner (shua@umich.edu) wrote:
> : dv wrote:
> : >
> : > nkibe wrote:
> : > >
> : > > >I sometimes hear complaints that people are angry when someone comes
> : > > >up behind them, flashes their lights to indicate their desire to pass.
> : >
> : >         This is sometimes due to the way people flash to pass. 90% of the time
> : > it has happened to me, I was passing a guy on a two lane road, some guy
> : > comes up at high velocities (usually 20-30 mph over the speed limit),
> : > gets about a foot, sometimes less, to the point where I can't even see
> : > his lights, flashes me, and I guess expects me to 1)turn into the
> : > concrete barrier on my left, 2)turn right into the guy I'm passing, or
> : > 3)floor it. You better believe I'm gonna bitch if people are going to
> : > drive like a**holes who think they own the road. If they're couteous
> 
> Hey, I thought that when you overtake you floor-it anyway, if you don't
> then you are obviously obstructing the guy behind you.

	Ummmmmmm, no. Don't have to floor it to pass someone. If I'm going 65
and the guy I'm passing is going 55, then why do I have to floor it.
Then if some idiot comes up at 80 and acts like an a**, I'm gonna be,
let me put it nicely, a little annoyed.
> Jac
> Alfa-Romeo 146ti
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Subject: Re: flashing lights to pass
Date: 1997/02/11
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