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On 2 Aug 1998 08:16:30 GMT, Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@16.usenet.us.com> wrote:
>In <35c3b7e6.334526082@news.v-wave.com> grimrod@mindless.moc (Brandon
>Sommerville) writes:
>
>>As long as you are following someone within two or three seconds you
>>aren't blocking the lane, you are moving with traffic flow.  If
>>however there is a long open space in front of you (more than three or
>>four seconds) and you aren't moving faster than the vehicle in the
>>lane to your right, you should move over.  Simple courtesy.
>
>Didn't we go through this before?  Having a long following distance
>ahead of you doesn't mean you are slower traffic.  Usually it just means
>you are a more cautious driver.  I don't see why more cautious drivers
>are under any obligation to yield to less cautious drivers.
>
>Sometimes the following distance ahead of me grows up to 10 seconds or
>so.  Not because I'm driving slow, but because the motorists ahead of me
>are so impatient that they all speed up and form a small clump of
>vehicles.  Then they all brake sharply and slow down again, and the
>following distance ahead of me decreases to 3-4 seconds.  Then they
>clump up again.  And so on.  They never seem to learn.

A few days ago, I was in dense, fast moving traffic, approaching an area
that normally chokes.  I looked to my left, to see a couple of tourists
in a minivan, the hefty wife checking out a map, obese hubby driving along 
with no cares.  I noticed a "club" thrown carelessly on the dash in front 
of hubby.  Since I was on the way to the hospital to pick up some family, 
and in a fairly maudlin mood, I couldn't help but imagine the minivan 
getting accordioned and the airbag blowing the club into the guys chest.

I have a hankerin' for BBQ ribs, now.

>-- 
>Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@spams.r.us.com>
>a2i communications, a quality ISP
>   "Life is an obstacle course.  Get used to it."

jg
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