@ Merry Poppet – do you drive a small school bus on the Cross County Parkway?? In the Left Lane?? ALL the time?
45 in a 35 is acceptable…at least on a highway.
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If yer gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair.
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Just do a consistent speed. Put the phone down, goof!
11
No, col j, I drive a white pick-up (fast) with a “Must spoil the grandbeans” license plate frame. 😉😁
9
Folks defending tailgating in 3…2…
Oops, I’m too late
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@ Merry – thank you for the clarification.
Whenever driving local roads I FULLY observe MPH.
On the highway I do what the volume does.
NO tailgating or lights or anything like that, I SIMPLY go around…
BE safe and say a short prayer, it cannot hurt:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Be With Us On Our Way,
Saint Christopher, Protect Us.
You can substitute ‘us’ for ‘me’ if you are alone.
13
I go 35 in a 35mph zone, if someone is tailgating, I go 35.
Most impatient folks will drop back 2 to 3 car lengths, if they don’t, I go 35 and murmur something about them being an asshole.
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I don’t tailgate.
But I’ll be happy to let my A/T’s throw a bunch of rocks from my driveway at you if you drive like a goof.
There’s always a place to pass.
7
I’m in Texas. What is this “35” of which you speak?
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They raised our speed limit on I=15 to 70 through the city area. No one goes that slow. It’s because they are too young to remember 55 and have no appreciation for 70. And they are assholes.
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@ Hambone – I was driving through a VERY small town in west Texas, near Lubbock, in ’89 WITH MY MOM, in a camper and got stopped for going over 30 through town. NY PLATES.
Paid the summons and kept on truckin’.
I learned to do the speed limit through ANY town after that one.
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I don’t care if people are driving 40 in a 35, unless the obvious traffic flow is going 45mp or more. People who are willing (or demand) to drive like snails, when it’s unsafe deserve tickets.
3
It wouldn’t matter if you were going 140 in a 35 zone, there would ALWAYS be some asshole tailgating you (and I don’t mean the cops). Probably with California plates.
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6/29/2007
Do you know the date?
It is the exact day that pleasure driving was killed.
Look it up.
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I drive an 8000lb. diesel Excursion… You’re lucky if I even notice you tailgating me. But the hitch is installed if you need an airbag test!
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That’s funny. I do the same thing.
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One of the earliest driving lessons welded into my brain was when my dad told me the story of driving in East St Louis back in the ’50s. An entire line of people, as usually happens, was driving over the speed limit. He was somewhere in that line just trying to keep up with the flow, when a cop pulled him over and wrote a ticket for speeding.
Dad asked why didn’t the cops nail more people more often since mass speeding was a regular thing here?
The cop acknowledge that dad felt singled out but just said, “We can’t stop everybody.”
No matter what everyone else is doing, I do the speed limit in any town or city. The cops can’t stop everybody but they’re going to stop somebody.
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I’m sure she’ll also gladly tell you which Progressive to vote for too!
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You ever notice you get the guy going 5 under the speed limit in front of you the same moment you get the guy wanting to go 15 over the speed limit behind you?
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This is why I always arrive at my car 3 hours before boarding.
9
When on the highway, my rule of thumb is to make sure I’m always going slower than the fastest car. Has worked for me for years.
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I’ve always called it the “Farmer F You”.
Tailgate me TOO much, and I might see a squirrel and lock ’em up.
4
uckbuddy
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Small west TX towns commonly run the speed limit from 75 right down to 30 as you go through-it’s either for the safety of citizens ( who appear to live somewhere else; not a soul to be seen) or the only game in town for generating revenue.
Really stupid to drive too fast or follow too close where I live – the deer are thick as flies this year.
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As Hambone knows if you drive the speed limit in Texas you get your ass run over. Speed limits are merely a suggestion in the Houston area. Many rural areas are now posted at 75. Most of us drive around 10 mph over. Slow vehicle are the danger, not fast ones.
I do have somewhere to go and I don’t have all day to get there.
3
TONY
the tailgaters in Cal are GWB’s buddies and they are doing “An act of love!”! Since starting in ’01 GWB invited millions of ’em here it seems like most drivers in Cal are tailgating. But most (at least 70%) of us ARE NOT CRIMINAL ALIENS!
I’ve got the rear windshield wiper Hose pointed directly Aft…I
spray People and they usually back off…We’ve got one Road, riding
My Ass won’t make the 35 Cars in front of Me go any faster.
“Anyone driving slower than You is an asshole, anybody driving
faster than You is f*cking Crazy”
George Carlin.
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I hate the idiots that confuse a merge sign for a stop. When you’re going on a highway on ramp you don’t go to the end and stop. Left lane snails are a nuisance too.
4
My procedure for a single tailgaiter:
I signal, pull off on the shoulder, let them pass, and then get right back on the road behind them.
It slows them to the speed limit because they think I detected a radar speed trap.
Then I wave and give them a big grin to further mess with their head. Have a rushed, messed up day, asshole.
Yep, that’s the way it works, assholes!
@ Merry Poppet – do you drive a small school bus on the Cross County Parkway?? In the Left Lane?? ALL the time?
45 in a 35 is acceptable…at least on a highway.
If yer gonna ride my ass, at least pull my hair.
Just do a consistent speed. Put the phone down, goof!
No, col j, I drive a white pick-up (fast) with a “Must spoil the grandbeans” license plate frame. 😉😁
Folks defending tailgating in 3…2…
Oops, I’m too late
@ Merry – thank you for the clarification.
Whenever driving local roads I FULLY observe MPH.
On the highway I do what the volume does.
NO tailgating or lights or anything like that, I SIMPLY go around…
BE safe and say a short prayer, it cannot hurt:
Jesus, Mary and Joseph,
Be With Us On Our Way,
Saint Christopher, Protect Us.
You can substitute ‘us’ for ‘me’ if you are alone.
I go 35 in a 35mph zone, if someone is tailgating, I go 35.
Most impatient folks will drop back 2 to 3 car lengths, if they don’t, I go 35 and murmur something about them being an asshole.
I don’t tailgate.
But I’ll be happy to let my A/T’s throw a bunch of rocks from my driveway at you if you drive like a goof.
There’s always a place to pass.
I’m in Texas. What is this “35” of which you speak?
They raised our speed limit on I=15 to 70 through the city area. No one goes that slow. It’s because they are too young to remember 55 and have no appreciation for 70. And they are assholes.
@ Hambone – I was driving through a VERY small town in west Texas, near Lubbock, in ’89 WITH MY MOM, in a camper and got stopped for going over 30 through town. NY PLATES.
Paid the summons and kept on truckin’.
I learned to do the speed limit through ANY town after that one.
I don’t care if people are driving 40 in a 35, unless the obvious traffic flow is going 45mp or more. People who are willing (or demand) to drive like snails, when it’s unsafe deserve tickets.
It wouldn’t matter if you were going 140 in a 35 zone, there would ALWAYS be some asshole tailgating you (and I don’t mean the cops). Probably with California plates.
6/29/2007
Do you know the date?
It is the exact day that pleasure driving was killed.
Look it up.
I drive an 8000lb. diesel Excursion… You’re lucky if I even notice you tailgating me. But the hitch is installed if you need an airbag test!
That’s funny. I do the same thing.
One of the earliest driving lessons welded into my brain was when my dad told me the story of driving in East St Louis back in the ’50s. An entire line of people, as usually happens, was driving over the speed limit. He was somewhere in that line just trying to keep up with the flow, when a cop pulled him over and wrote a ticket for speeding.
Dad asked why didn’t the cops nail more people more often since mass speeding was a regular thing here?
The cop acknowledge that dad felt singled out but just said, “We can’t stop everybody.”
No matter what everyone else is doing, I do the speed limit in any town or city. The cops can’t stop everybody but they’re going to stop somebody.
I’m sure she’ll also gladly tell you which Progressive to vote for too!
You ever notice you get the guy going 5 under the speed limit in front of you the same moment you get the guy wanting to go 15 over the speed limit behind you?
This is why I always arrive at my car 3 hours before boarding.
When on the highway, my rule of thumb is to make sure I’m always going slower than the fastest car. Has worked for me for years.
I’ve always called it the “Farmer F You”.
Tailgate me TOO much, and I might see a squirrel and lock ’em up.
uckbuddy
Small west TX towns commonly run the speed limit from 75 right down to 30 as you go through-it’s either for the safety of citizens ( who appear to live somewhere else; not a soul to be seen) or the only game in town for generating revenue.
Really stupid to drive too fast or follow too close where I live – the deer are thick as flies this year.
As Hambone knows if you drive the speed limit in Texas you get your ass run over. Speed limits are merely a suggestion in the Houston area. Many rural areas are now posted at 75. Most of us drive around 10 mph over. Slow vehicle are the danger, not fast ones.
I do have somewhere to go and I don’t have all day to get there.
TONY
the tailgaters in Cal are GWB’s buddies and they are doing “An act of love!”! Since starting in ’01 GWB invited millions of ’em here it seems like most drivers in Cal are tailgating. But most (at least 70%) of us ARE NOT CRIMINAL ALIENS!
I’ve got the rear windshield wiper Hose pointed directly Aft…I
spray People and they usually back off…We’ve got one Road, riding
My Ass won’t make the 35 Cars in front of Me go any faster.
“Anyone driving slower than You is an asshole, anybody driving
faster than You is f*cking Crazy”
George Carlin.
I hate the idiots that confuse a merge sign for a stop. When you’re going on a highway on ramp you don’t go to the end and stop. Left lane snails are a nuisance too.
My procedure for a single tailgaiter:
I signal, pull off on the shoulder, let them pass, and then get right back on the road behind them.
It slows them to the speed limit because they think I detected a radar speed trap.
Then I wave and give them a big grin to further mess with their head. Have a rushed, messed up day, asshole.