needlesandpins
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sorry, you can all come up with any situation you like. i just don't care when someone is putting others at risk by speeding, i'll move at the right time, not because someone is bullying me into doing it.
I am not sure where you live, but here there are signs that say "Keep to the right, except to pass".
If there is no one in the slow lane, I have to wonder why you feel the need to aggravate others. I know that here, going the speed limit on 285 will get you run over. Doing it in the fast lane may very well get you shot.
I find it commendable that you want to follow the law. I find it strange that you feel doing so gives you the right to impede others.
i'm in the uk. the whole point that i am making isn't about clear inside lanes, and to start with my comment was about being in the middle lane doing the speed limit because i need to be there, and then someone thinking they have the right to bully me into moving. as usual on here people latch on one little thing and turn it into a huge debate instead of taking everything said as the whole context.
why should i be forced to move into slower moving traffic so someone else can speed, thus break the law. go around me. if i'm in a lane it's because i need to be. as for this damned impedement thing everyone is sssooooooo obsessed about. if it was someone doing 45 in a 70 zone dual carriageway, and there is room for them in the inside lane, then yes i get it. however, if you are doing the speed limit, it's called the limit for a reason. everyone should be doing the same limit. nothing makes speeding legal.
i don't see why people think the concept of speeding is correct, and the ones doing the right speed are the ones in the wrong. you see the signs over here all the time; speed kills,and so it does.
locally a couple of years ago a lady let a boy racer over take her because he was tailgating and flashing his lights at her. just down the road she came across his car with three of the boys dead. not only had he killed himself, and two of his friends, but had also involved two other cars. one containing an elderly couple, both dead, the other a mother and two of her daughters, the daughters dead. the lady that let him pass told the press how guilty she felt for letting him past as she had been doing the legal limit of 50mph, so really there was no need other than the lads selfishness thinking he was better than anyone else on the road. 6 other people dead, two seriously injured.
so yeah, i guess when you just can't wait, and you know you are better than anyone else on the road, and the speed limit doesn't apply to you, what the hell does it matter about anyone else using the road. as for me aggravating other drivers that are speeding.....double standard there. they can aggravate me with their careless driving, but i can't do what is right for me, and my conscience incase i aggravate them. that's cockeyed.
people can think i'm wrong all they want. but i will continue to be a safe driver, and do what i need to do when it is safe, and reasonable to do so.
when all the speeders kill someone they can justify taking that life all they like. in the mean time they can convince themselves it will never happen to them because they are so amazing. they can also pass the book onto the other drivers doing the actual right thing.
if a person is doing the limit, then they are impeding no-one except someone breaking the law for their own selfish gains. it is not my job to guess what speed someone behind me is doing if i need to break, it is that person's responsibility to make sure they don't put me at risk by driving too close, too fast. just as it is mine to give the person in front plenty of space, and adjust my speed accordingly.
i don't need to justify myself anymore, and nore will i any further on this subject. if anyone else want to pick, and poke at what i've said, then do it in cmail on the other side. i said my pet peeve, i shouldn't have had to defend myself in this thread.
needles
< Message edited by needlesandpins -- 10/7/2012 2:38:45 AM >
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