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Re: Driving Pet peeves



daglenn@prairienet.org (David Glenn) wrote:
>FZXQ53C@prodigy.com (Ryan Taylor) wrote:
>
>>That's what I always used when I had a pickup. I'd see the bottom of the 
>>headlights dip below my tailgate, and my foot would ease up on the 
>>accelerator. Once the headlights submerge beyond the tailgate, foot comes 
>>off the accelerator. If my tailgate starts eatin up the hood in the 
>>rearview mirror, the brakes come on.
>
>This is about the most insane, stupid behavior I can think of. Oh my,
>a tailgater, I know, I'll slow down, that'll teach him. If the average
>someone is tailgating (or driving remotely close to you) it should
>send a signal to your hopefully driving aware brain. I am blocking the
>road in some way, what can I do to alleviate this situation (I would
>exclude crass tailgating just to be tailgating types here). What are
>you about 78 years old?

No disrespect meant from this 26-year-old driver of a full size, but
my question is, do you drive a truck? If not, you wouldn't understand.
A tailgater behind a truck is a person asking for a sheet metal lunch.
Truck bumpers and Miatas don't get along too well. I do this to protect
the tailgating moron behind me as well as my truck. If I can't see their
headlights, they are way too damn close. When I am doing 55 in light to
medium traffic, and some retard in a Z28, whom I just passed about 1/2
a mile back, comes blowing up on my bumper, he's lucky I don't get out
and ask him (yes, him) if he wants to drive my truck for me, as he seems
to want to get in the bed. Little cars have a tendency to get lost in
the blind spot of a vehicle that is 4 times larger than they are. The
tailgate of a truck is just such a large blind spot, especially one as
high up as mine.
 Morons tailgating, etc, need a wake up call. A light touch of the 
brakes, just enough to light up the Christmas tree, is perfect for 
putting the fool that is creeping up back where the both of you are
 safe.

>This rates right up there with normal ice driving behavior in the
>midwest (bridges, sleet covered roads, etc.). People will fly along at
>55-60 and brake as the cross each ice covered bridge. These two
>situations are the absolute worse times to hit the brakes.
>
You mean that's not how it's supposed to be done ;).

Scott Kirkham
'95 Dodge Ram 1500 4x4