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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't honk at people going exactly the speed limit but I do think they are either anxious, [b]sanctimonious[/b], or fixated so much on their speedometer that they're failing to pay adequate attention to other things, and therefore not any safer than me and the rest of traffic going 5-10 over. I amuse myself by imagining that they might be trying to avoid police attention because they have no license or insurance, or have open warrants, or something. It also means they may be incapable of "reading the room" (I mean, the police here drive 10-15 over routinely), which isn't a good quality in a driver needing situational awareness, or aren't local and are thus unpredictable. So it makes sense to get away from them.

I did have a funny one recently in this vein, though, with a driver behind me who started honking furiously for me to go when a light turned green. I was stopped because there was an MCPS bus that had just pulled up with its lights flashing unloading kids on the other side of the street, and the median was only a painted stripe so everyone had to stop in both directions. I actually thought I was possibly sitting just past the point where the bus camera would have caught me (it pulled up and stopped while we were all at a red light) and could maybe have gone, but it was too expensive of a gamble to take. This guy one car length behind me would absolutely have been nailed. He didn't even realize that if I had moved he would definitely have gotten a $250 automated ticket. You're welcome, dipstick! [/quote]

Obeying the law is sanctimonious?  Wow this thread is crazy[/quote]

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