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Re: STUPID Texas drivers

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From: John Hess
Date: Sun, 01 Sep 1996 00:00
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In article <500nv8$9j2@crl14.crl.com>, dcrane@crl.com says...
>
>John Hess (johnhess@cris.com) wrote:
>: In article <4vl11k$h05@news1.sunbelt.net>, jrobeson@sde.state.sc.us says...
>: >
>: >P.S.  You wouldn't push, shove, and squeeze to get in front of me in a 
>: >line at the burger barn or the movies, would you?  That could get you big 
>: >time pain and aggravation.  Don't use sheetmetal as a substitute for 
>: >brains.
>
>: Unfortunately, there are those who would.  The only thing I would add as a 
>: preference to your above is that if you are collecting cars behind you, 
>: even when passing, you should be courteous enough to let some of them by.
>: You are, after all, slower traffic.
>
>I take great pleasure in pulling over to let speeders sail by on the 
>left when I am the second fastest vehicle in the vicinity. Truckers 
>call it "letting somebody else beat the bushes" (for radar traps).
>

By the same token, how many drivers do you think have been ticketed for 
driving at rates much higher than they (thought) they were, because they 
forced me to pass on the right (while traveling at the speed they were 
ticketed for) and my radar detector went off on the back side of the hill 
while they were cresting it.  I have good breaks and when the cop saw me, I 
was going appreciably slower than the car in the left lane.  Ahhhh.  Poetic 
Justice.
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From: johnhess@cris.com (John Hess)
Subject: Re: STUPID Texas drivers
Date: 1996/09/01
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