🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6o8qs1$j17$1@samba.rahul.net>,
Rahul Dhesi <c.c.eiftj@22.usenet.us.com> wrote:
}In <JhQp1.127$Dh.450804@newsread.com> russotto@wanda.pond.com (Matthew
}T. Russotto) writes:
}
}>When there's faster traffic behind me, I DO move right to let it by.
}>But I expect that assholes like you will do otherwise, and thus I will
}>simply drive around you.  The more you try and prevent this, the more
}>dangerous it will be for you when I do so.  And since your tolerance
}>for risk is clearly much less than mine, it will hurt you more than it
}>will hurt me.
}
}Tolerance for risk is an intereesting thing.  Those who are less willing
}to tolerate risk are more likely to live longer.

Fine.  When I'm dead, I'll cease having objections to your lane
blocking.  Until then, any time I get by a lane-blocker in a somewhat
risky pass, I'll just think about how the lane-blocker become
white-knuckled and loose-boweled, whereas I merely had a momentary
concern about the loss of my margin of safety.  I'm sure that image
will greatly reduce my stress level, at least partially offsetting the risk.

}through traffic, you do it and leave the safe driver alone, ok?  Why
}don't you just drive on the shoulder?  You can have it to yourself.

It's an option, but only for very obstinate lane-blockers.
-- 
Matthew T. Russotto                                russotto@pond.com
"Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice, and moderation in pursuit
of justice is no virtue."