Stop tailgating me!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

WOW, you are clinically insane. Please get some help before you kill someone. WTF???

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I had someone lay on their horn behind me today while I was stopped at a stop sign because small children were crossing in front of me. We were literally a block from a school. They may have even been racing to drop kids off at that school.

It was probably the PP who fancies himself the left lane police.

I love how triggered you are while trying to justify shitty driving.

I’m not trying to justify it. I give other people grace and accept imperfection in other human beings so I’m not losing my mind on the highway every day.

Clearly, you ARE losing your mind. People like you are dangerous. We have traffic laws for a reason. Instead of extending this imaginary grace, how about you obey the traffic laws and do what the signs tell you to do. Everyone is safer that way.

Not the PP you’re responding to, but you seem the dangerously unhinged one. There are no traffic laws or signs that advise, much less require, drivers to tailgate. We need to take as a given that all drivers (including ourselves) are imperfect and cooperate with each other for everyone’s mutual safety. It’s not a competition. I’ve long suspected that I care more about the safety of some other drivers than they do, and this thread is confirming that.

I love how you characterize me as unhinged and then proceed to assign words to me I NEVER said. There are laws and signs on every highway telling slow drivers to move right. I don't need or want to rely on your or anyone else's compassion. Just follow the traffic laws!! They exist for situations like this.

If you think that you are being safe by slowing traffic down in the fast lane, than you are completely clueless.

You are assuming that I slow down traffic in the fast lane which is FALSE. I’m the PP who said that I’ve been tailgated in the far right lane, going at or above the speed limit - and incidentally, it’s happened more than once. Maybe you are so morally superior that you only tailgate slow drivers in the fast lane, but many of your fellow tailgaters aren’t so discriminating.

Moreover, if something unexpected happens and that slow driver in front of you has to slam on their brakes, you may feel that running into them serves them right, but when it sends their car flying into another lane and injures or kills someone in a nearby vehicle are you going to tell them to blame the driver who wasn’t speeding as fast as you wanted them to.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:First of all, stop blaming the driver in front of you. I’ve been tailgated in the far right-hand lane going at or above the speed limit.

Secondly, tailgating me will make me go slower, not faster. I will want more room between me and the car ahead of me so that if they do something unexpected I have more reaction time so that I can hopefully avoid slamming on my brakes and getting rear-ended by my tailgater. Moreover, if my tailgater does rear-end me, I want the extra room in front of me to hopefully avoid a chain reaction where I get pushed into the car in front.

If you are driving slower than the rest of the traffic in the left lane, you need to move over. You will just as easily cause an accident as someone who is tailgating you.

If you re-read my post you will see that I have been tailgated in the far right lane.. Moreover, I generally go with the speed of traffic, at or above the speed limit. Maybe instead of tailgating, the person who wants to go faster than the speed of traffic can move left, but that still wouldn’t accomplish much, because traffic would still be moving at about the same speed.

That’s why I said tailgaters should stop blaming the drivers that are ahead of them. From my experience, tailgating has very little to do with speed or lane choice, and is more about a driver’s impatience and frustration which they choose to express as a threat to the driver directly in front of them. It’s like a schoolyard bully making themselves feel more powerful by picking on someone else. Unfortunately, when you combine the weight of motor vehicles with the speed of traffic, the consequences for salving an overblown ego can be deadly.

I’ve been frustrated, myself, behind slow traffic. Once, I was stuck for a long time on a narrow road behind a bicycle riding in the middle of the lane with too much oncoming traffic to pass. I can relate to the frustration which is why even though I drive with the flow of traffic, I move over for faster traffic. However, whichever lane or speed I’m driving, I keep in mind that SAFETY is the top priority. Getting in an accident will definitely delay my arrival, and could mean that I don’t get to my destination at all (or that someone else doesn’t, which matters even more to me, but maybe not to self-centered tailgaters).

You think people driving behind you in heavy traffic is tailgating?

Three-second rule. Regardless of degree of traffic it works.

While someone behind you in stop-and-go traffic will probably be pretty close to you, when the traffic is flowing smoothly, the driver behind you should not be riding your bumper.

If traffic is moving then the car can pass on the left. Unless the left lane has some impotent old dudes clogging it all up.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

WOW, you are clinically insane. Please get some help before you kill someone. WTF???

I only kill people who deserve it, love.

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Anonymous wrote:I had someone lay on their horn behind me today while I was stopped at a stop sign because small children were crossing in front of me. We were literally a block from a school. They may have even been racing to drop kids off at that school.

It was probably the PP who fancies himself the left lane police.

I love how triggered you are while trying to justify shitty driving.

I’m not trying to justify it. I give other people grace and accept imperfection in other human beings so I’m not losing my mind on the highway every day.

Clearly, you ARE losing your mind. People like you are dangerous. We have traffic laws for a reason. Instead of extending this imaginary grace, how about you obey the traffic laws and do what the signs tell you to do. Everyone is safer that way.

Not the PP you’re responding to, but you seem the dangerously unhinged one. There are no traffic laws or signs that advise, much less require, drivers to tailgate. We need to take as a given that all drivers (including ourselves) are imperfect and cooperate with each other for everyone’s mutual safety. It’s not a competition. I’ve long suspected that I care more about the safety of some other drivers than they do, and this thread is confirming that.

I love how you characterize me as unhinged and then proceed to assign words to me I NEVER said. There are laws and signs on every highway telling slow drivers to move right. I don't need or want to rely on your or anyone else's compassion. Just follow the traffic laws!! They exist for situations like this.

If you think that you are being safe by slowing traffic down in the fast lane, than you are completely clueless.

You are assuming that I slow down traffic in the fast lane which is FALSE. I’m the PP who said that I’ve been tailgated in the far right lane, going at or above the speed limit - and incidentally, it’s happened more than once. Maybe you are so morally superior that you only tailgate slow drivers in the fast lane, but many of your fellow tailgaters aren’t so discriminating.

Moreover, if something unexpected happens and that slow driver in front of you has to slam on their brakes, you may feel that running into them serves them right, but when it sends their car flying into another lane and injures or kills someone in a nearby vehicle are you going to tell them to blame the driver who wasn’t speeding as fast as you wanted them to.

So this happened to you TWICE and you’re bringing it up…why? To deflect from your own bad behavior. Get out of the left lane.

[Anonymous]

I've been tailgated when I was going 5 over the speed limit in a right lane when the center and left lanes are clear. There are weird people playing games.

The best thing to do is stay calm and not let yourself be provoked into doing anything unsafe. Don't brake check, don't get mad. The goal is to let the idiot on their way and get yourself home safe and intact. It's not your job to teach anyone a lesson, they won't learn anyway and it's not worth risking injury or damage to your car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

^ like I said, impotent old guy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

WOW, you are clinically insane. Please get some help before you kill someone. WTF???

I only kill people who deserve it, love.

It's all fun and games until you meet your match and he pops you first. Tootles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've been tailgated when I was going 5 over the speed limit in a right lane when the center and left lanes are clear. There are weird people playing games.

The best thing to do is stay calm and not let yourself be provoked into doing anything unsafe. Don't brake check, don't get mad. The goal is to let the idiot on their way and get yourself home safe and intact. It's not your job to teach anyone a lesson, they won't learn anyway and it's not worth risking injury or damage to your car.

Voice of reason.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

Super sane and safe behavior!!!

I don’t care. The bish behind isn’t the boss of me. I enjoy watching their faces get redder.

I have a gun in the car if they come for me. I have brandished it before at aggro drivers and am not afraid to use it.

We are the boss of you, loser. That’s why you throw tantrums on the road like a petulant little turd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

I had a real "I have become my mother" moment the first time my husband did this and I told him he was going to get us killed in a road rage encounter. My parents had this discussion on many a road trip in my youth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

I had a real "I have become my mother" moment the first time my husband did this and I told him he was going to get us killed in a road rage encounter. My parents had this discussion on many a road trip in my youth.

Yes, if you are in the wrong (lingering in the left lane), just fix the problem, don’t make it worse.

Move over before you get someone killed.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just deliberately slow down when people do this and will intentionally pace the car next to me. Just to frustrate the tailgater.

I had a real "I have become my mother" moment the first time my husband did this and I told him he was going to get us killed in a road rage encounter. My parents had this discussion on many a road trip in my youth.

Yes, if you are in the wrong (lingering in the left lane), just fix the problem, don’t make it worse.

Move over before you get someone killed.

Why do you think tailgating only happens in the left lane? Is this some suburban derangement where literally every time you leave your house you have to go on a multi-lane highway?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've been tailgated when I was going 5 over the speed limit in a right lane when the center and left lanes are clear. There are weird people playing games.

The best thing to do is stay calm and not let yourself be provoked into doing anything unsafe. Don't brake check, don't get mad. The goal is to let the idiot on their way and get yourself home safe and intact. It's not your job to teach anyone a lesson, they won't learn anyway and it's not worth risking injury or damage to your car.

Voice of reason.

Also, here's a twist-- I was taking a friend to the hospital for an appt, like 5:30 AM, no cars on road. Two lane road, I'm in right lane, nobody else on the road except one car tailgating me! And I was driving a bit speedy!
We got to the hospital and the car turned into employee parking and we went to visitors

I think it was just a sleep deprived med person on autopilot. They were probably just "going with me" and not thinking too much.

Something to think about-- not malicious!