Michael A. Terrell said:
almost considered rude not to. It helpes create a low tension > atmosphere.
Hand gestures can be considered a threat. That's what happens when
the 'PC' morons get laws passed.
I can believe that.
I was charged for not pulling off the
road to let someone pass me on a foggy morning, along a narrow road to
an elementary school, where kids walked every morning. The woman behind
me was tailgating and had her high beams on, so I did what I was taught
in survival driver's training by pulling to the center of the road so I
could see the white line. She tried to pass me anyway, then a cop
showed up from the other direction and claimed she saw everything, and
that the woman behind me had her child, so I should have known better.
So she was trying to pass in fog with a child on board ? SHE should have been the one charged.
The next day the same woman ran a co worker off the same road in the
same location, but when the police were called, all they said was, We
didn't see it.
The stories I hear of your police don't impress.
I don't intend to own one, and have tired of NASCAR and other
racing. You see everything but the race, except when they cut away to
show a wreck, over and over. In car cams watching the rear of another
car isn't racing, unless you are the driver. I got fast driving out of
my system in my 20s, and don't miss it.
I get the impression NASCAR is all about having crashes. Going round and round ovals can't be very exciting.
with mummy and daddy (the culture thing).
Someone walked into a local car stereo shop a few years ago and shot
the owner. They didn't take anything and the guy lived, but he doesn't
drive up and down main street, rattling windows in businesses with his
marked company truck anymore. They never found out who shot him, and a
lot of the idiots turned their noise down for about a year.
That's one way of dealing with it !
My road is a fairly short one - about 250m. As you doubtless know, many of our roads aren't very wide, dating from horse
and cart days and this is no exception being from the Victorian era. With cars parked on both sides, there's only room for
one car to pass inbetween.
Now it also happens to be part of a convenient short cut or 'rat run' as we call them, that avoids a busy set of traffic
lights. Sometimes we get cars or bikes 'screaming' down the road, engines revving to the max (in a 30 mph limit). On one
occasion I was standing on the sidewalk and was so cross I punched my fist at the car's windscreen. On another occasion I
stood in from of a car and refused to budge. It did stop and I told the Paki driver where to get off, despite his boss in
the back whining about the delay. I made sure the delay was as long as possible.
I suppose that's pedestrian rage ?
Graham
p.s. nice to have such a civil conversation
