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If someone is tailgating me on a two lane road and won't go around, I'll simply find a convenient place to pull over and let him/her pass. I put on my turn signal and slowly pull over to the side and stop. Usually, they'll go around before I even get to a complete stop.
This doesn't happen often, but pulling over has always worked when I did it. If the driver following me stops too and gets out of his car to approach me, he's going to have a BIG surprise when he gets to my window.
This is why smart drivers DON'T ENGAGE with other drivers. You don't know who has a gun in their glove compartment and isn't afraid to use it. You don't flip them off, and you don't brake-check.
If they don't cause a collision, your best bet is to just let it go. It's not worth getting shot over.
That's how that 6 year old got shot and killed. Because his mother gave another driver the finger.
Some people still do the same juvenile antics that they did as 8th graders even though they are adults. They may have gotten older, but they haven't matured.
Why? Probably because you were driving on the "faster" left lane. With slowing down to 20 on a 50 speed limit street you make many people very angry. Some might react.
Ahem. she said two way road. that means ONE lane in each direction.
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Originally Posted by elnina
I see. My bad! I thought it was two lanes in each direction.
But right or not, slowing down to 20 mph on 50 mph road might **** off someone badly. Lunatics don't need much...
I learned not to teach any lessons anyone on the road.
What do you guys want to call it when you tap the brake lights but don't actually brake? It seems like a lot of people don't understand that a flash of brake lights means to back off. Then you have the idiots who don't understand either when you slow down to discourage the tailgating. The other day I slowed an entire 15 mph before the jerk behind me, on his cell phone, with no other cars on the road, figured it out. Getting really tired of the aggressors blaming the other drivers.
I put my flashers on when I want some aggressive idiot off my tail.
It's because they were PREDATORY SOCIOPATHS looking for VICTIMS. They like having JUSTIFICATIONS for their predation - even if the "justification" was your going "too slow"(though you were already exceeding the speed limit by twenty percent). Intimidating you - causing you anxiety - possibly damaging your self-esteem - was a form of predation.
I recently watched a YouTube video of an interview with someone whom Ted Bundy decided NOT TO rape/torture/kill. Nonetheless, while he had her in the car, he was cussing her up-and-down, for "being stupid" and letting him give her a ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDUr4mNHPIU He was deriving satisfaction, simply from causing her terror. His "justification", was her (as defined by HIM) "stupidity". Bundy was an extreme case - a full-blown psychopath. But garden variety psychos get that same sort of pleasure, from causing anxiety, from making victims feel bad about themselves. And these days, a lot of them seem to be doing it, on the road.
Personally, I'm not seeing much difference, between Bundy's driving around with murderous intent, looking for "opportunities", and the Shooter's intent, in the story under discussion. She had a gun with her, READY to "punish" anyone who ticked-her-off. Am I wrong in suspecting she's been in the habit of going through life, wanting someone to "make her cross"?
Thanks for sharing this...
Yes....INDEED ~
Stay safe out there...
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Getting really tired of the aggressors blaming the other drivers.
