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Would you stop driving on the highway so close to my butt? Just because you own a particular type of vehicle does not mean you are exempt from the MVA so slow the f— down and observe the speed limit. —Want to Go Home Safe
This article appears in Sep 8-14, 2011.
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Pull over and let them pass. Idiot.
I suspect you are one of the wonderful drivers who hogs the passing lane, while doing the speed limit or just under.
Is this the same OP that was trying to merge on the highway last week?
Yes, Jake, that’s the only time I will tail someone. The fast lane is for fast drivers and passers.
Stay in the slow lane OP, because you are a slowpoke. Get the fuck out of my way.
If on the other hand… the OP is in the right hand lane and someone is just being a jerkoff… hit the brakes…. you’re insured right? Get yourself a nifty new vehicle out of it (or at least a new to you one)
This “particular type of vehicle” wasn’t an ambulance was it?
OP, drive faster. You’re holding people up.
I get angry at this too; I like to drive the speed limit (in the right lane!) because I plan ahead enough so I don’t have to speed to my destinations, and I don’t feel like getting any tickets. There always seems to be jerks that equate going the speed limit to going too slow, so they ride your ass. If they want to go so fast and be the daredevils they are trying to be, I don’t see why they won’t just go whatever high speed they want and just pass me.
Fucking tailgating assholes. I have no problem with folks that want to drive really fast…blow by me, it’s all good – driving fast feels awsome! But whether in the right lane or the passing lane (unless someone is dying, pregnant or you need to shit really badly) stay the fuck back, there is NO need to tailgate. I travel most of Nova Scotia in the run of a week…I don’t buy timbits for the nutritional value (spluck) and if my little one is in the car with me and someone is tailgating; there’s me with the speed limit set on cruise and I’ll give you a squirt of windsheild wash just to piss you off…and when your windsheild is dry here comes some more (just to fuck with you) again and again and again!
Why should someone have to pull over and let someone pass them because they can’t just slow the fuck down?
Maybe they were hogging the passing lane, maybe not, but there *are* actually highways in this province that aren’t twinned, so maybe this is one of those highways? I don’t think I should have to pull over to let someone pass! They can damn well wait for a passing lane or slow the fuck down. And being the shit disturber I can be, I’d probably slow down just for dirt.
This really irks me though — when people are all up on your ass. Not just while driving, but when you’re walking too. Usually I’ll move over, let the asshats pass and say something passive aggressive like “I SURE DO LOVE IT WHEN PEOPLE WALK ON TOP OF ME!”
There’s an asshat who lived on Fairfax who takes the same bus as me sometimes in the morning. He literally pushes his way onto the bus in front of everyone (meanwhile he’s always the last person to get to the stop) so he can get ‘his seat’ and he walks on top of me when I get off the bus all huffy-like. He’s one of those dipshits who can’t keep his tongue in his mouth and is all drooly.
Next time he pulls that shit I’m going to stop suddenly with my elbows back so I can get him in the stomach.
I have really pointy elbows.
maybe their car or truck is horny, and likes smelling your car’s ass?
I’m giving OP the benefit of the doubt—I’ve had folks on my butt, yet they don’t pass when the road opens up—
Some eye contact in the side view mirror does wonders…if they don’t get the subtle hints, feel free to move onto mouthing words, making gestures, slamming on your brakes, and throwing old popped popcorn or any other organic tidbits you may have in the crevasses of your front seat out the window. One time I was going down a mountain road, and this bitch was on my arse. I had just been to the farm stand and I bit into a sugar snap pea and threw the stem out the window. She was so close the stem hit her windshield. The startled look on her face was priceless! Bitch backed right off, too…
The fast lane adds twice as much real estate to the highway. In rush hour, it would be a huge waste of pavement if we took your advice and stayed the hell out of it.