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Am I the only person that isn't bothered by tailgaters?

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Originally posted by: SlitheryDee
Just last week as I was coming home from work late I got really pissed off at some jerk for tailgating me.

I was on I49 and pretty much had the road to myself except for the pickup that had entered the interstate behind me. This Fvcker rode my ass for at least 5 miles. The ***damn road was EMPTY and I was in the RIGHT lane, what is the point of tailgating then?. He couldn't have been more than a 3-4 feet away from my rear bumper. I started slowing down and he didn't pass until I was going 40 mph (speed limit 60 mph). I think he thought it was funny and I'm sure he just KNEW he had the mad driving skilz and reflexes to stop in case I wrecked or blew a tire or something.

So there's your tailgaters, or should I say your Mario Andretti/Dale Earnhardt wannabe losers of the world. :|


LOL, last week I was driving a Dump truck for work,
on the local Interstate.

I saw a small car behind me, getting closer, and then lost sight of it,
by the shadow of my truck I realized the Honda was so close to me that I could not see the car in the big mirrors not even the round,"blind spot" mirrors.

I slowed down to about 45 before the car went around me, and then,
tailgated a tractor trailer in front of me the same way.

At the next exit, the tractor tailer got off, followed by the Florida plate
Blue haired OLD lady,
that liked to draft for better gas mileage;
oh she thinks, signs that say; Stop, means yield, too.

:frown:



 
If someone is tailgating me and I am already tailgating the person in front of me I have a problem with it... if I am in the slow lane and being tailgated I have a problem with it. I don't get really really mad or anything, I just hit the brakes to let the person behind me know to back off.
 
Tailgating in heavy traffic is required. Otherwise, people cut you off and can cause you to rear end them.
 
Tailgaters don't piss me off as bad as those who get between me and the car in front of me (my buffer zone).
 
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