Re: Today's pucker factor moment

On 15 Aug 2006 13:00:54 -0700, "morticide" <grvan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


Bill Funk wrote:
On 15 Aug 2006 06:38:15 -0700, "morticide" <grvan@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brought to you from the same area of the Darwin failure in MO (pass on
a hill) last week. Same stretch of road (MO 6, mostly no-passing
zones).

This time I was doing 65 in a 55 for 14 miles. Had a semi on my
tailgate the whole time. The road is rough at 55 let alone 65.
Thought for sure I'd end up being his hood ornament, as he was close
enough to allow for counting the bugs in his grille. Later on the
drive I got behind a pickup doing 57. I slowed; so did the trucker.
Oncoming traffic prohibited a pass; good thing, because one of the
oncoming motorists was from the sheriff's department. Had a patrolman
been on the stretch mentioned, I'm sure BOTH of us would have been
ticketed.

Letting a tailgater intimidate you into doing a speed that you feel is
unsafe is stupid.
If you'd slowed down to a more reasonable speed, he wouldn't have hit
you, and he'd have had more of a chance of not hitting you if you'd
had to slow down quickly.
What makes you think going faster in that situation will make things
better?
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"

In this particular case, 55 would have been stupid, 65 (as I was going)
would have been stupid (and was), 45 would have been quite stupid, and
75 would have been extremely stupid. The way MoDOT has left that
stretch of road in that condition (no shoulders and rough) is stupid.
The action of that trucker was stupid. In this area, based on years of
observations, nearly ALL drivers are stupid. The fact that some
posters say I was STILL a sloth at 10 over and some say I was going
crazy at that same speed reflects the universal stupidity of American
drivers...which is still not as insane as the drivers in Saudi Arabia
and Kuwait.

We can't eliminate danger, but we should seek to minimize it.
In this particular case, slowing down would have minimized the danger
(we can't address the truck driver; he's not here). We also can't
address the state of the road, as it is what it is, and those
responsible for making it better aren't here.
But addressing your part in the incident we can do.
Instead of minimizing the danger by slowing down, and decreasing he
chances of a crash, you sped up. Even you describe that as stupid.
Saying that nearly all other drivers are stupid doesn't exonerate you.
It puts you in a lot of company, though.
--
Bill Funk
replace "g" with "a"
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