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| From:  _Xer (Original Message) | Sent: 12/17/2008 8:12 PM |
I realize some folks think only people who drive too fast are stupid. Not me. I mean I don't believe that. Some drivers think the slowest they can drive is always the safest. When it's snowing those are the ones you see sliding down hills backwards. I almost didn't make it back home from taking my wife to work today due to one of those. Going up the hill, at 15 mph, the tires started losing traction as we passed a woman sitting in her stopped car having slid backwards onto the side of the road. Her face looked so pitifully helpless as I passed it was heartbreaking, but had I stopped to help her I'd still be stuck beside her. On the two-lane highway 99 there were two idiots driving about 20 mph side by side. I could barely see them past the 40 plus cars they had stacked up behind them. And, the highway was heavily sanded! I was very happy when the road opened out to three lanes! Then there are the clowns who, terrified by snow, when they feel themselves losing traction jam on their brakes! Those are the ones you see sliding down hills sideways. Doh!
Unlike some folks I don't mind people who are in a hurry half as much as the ones who want to drive slow in front of me. What I actually like about people who want to drive faster than me is they pass me and go, and I never have to deal with them again, almost always anyway. Driving beside Loch Lomand the road was so twisty there were hardly any lengths of straight road longer then about 60 feet, and as it was it was hardly wide enough for the rental car I was driving (sure glad we never met any oncoming traffic). A local ended up behind me wanting to go 70 plus kmph so I speeded up as fast as my driving skills would allow at about 60 kmph (and believe me, I'm a skilled driver). While I felt his pain, being stuck behind a slowpoke foreigner unfamiliar with the roads, I was honestly going faster than was safe already. It seemed to take forever for there to be a place I could pull over to let him pass. It made him and me both very happy when he could get around my rental car. The road there is only feet from the edge of the Loch, with no barriers, so it was scaring the haggis out of both me and the wife.
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