Re: Advice to Drivers of Small Pointless Japanese Cars

On Jun 29, 6:48 pm, Brent P <tetraethylleadREMOVET...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
> On 2008-06-29, Laurence Sheldon <lfshel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Brent P wrote:
> >> On 2008-06-29, Laurence Sheldon <lfshel...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >>> Brent P wrote:
>
> >>>> But if you don't play, you automatically lose. You stay stuck
behind the
> >>>> passive-aggressive assholes. Good luck with that.
> >>> If I don't play, I don't play.  I drop back into the "bubble"
between
> >>> the groups of idiots all bunched up.
>
> >> So you surrender and drive the speed the asshole control freaks want
you
> >> to drive.
>
> > Yes.  I refuse to drive like an asshole.
>
> So in your book, the only way not drive like an asshole is to be
> completely submissive.

You sound like a reasonable person, smart, and a good driver.

> > And by driving a quarter of a mile behind the clump of them I get
where
> > I am going 3 tenths of a second after them.
>
> Yes, after them. On their time table. On their terms. Do you do this in
> other areas of your life too?

I'm sure he does.  Mature adults usually come the the conclusion that
they cannot always have their own way.

> > I don't consider "alive", and "accident free", and "124/75" to be
> > "surrender'.
>
> Only because you haven't come across a sadistic enough asshole.

Obviously you have.  Please describe the resulting crash.

> > If you manhood is defined by your being an asshole, have at it. 
Please
> > try to leave a path through the wreckage for us and our women.
>
> It has nothing to do with 'manhood'.

More with maturity.

> I used to bike and drive in
> submissive manner because that's what people said to do. In return I had
> various asshole -go out of their way- just to mess with me and in doing
> so endanger me.

How did you determine they went "out of their way"?

> I've even had drivers cross the center line and play a
> game of chicken on an empty road because they thought it was 'funny'.

How did you know what they thought?

> To drive like you do where I am would evenutally put me in a ditch...

I would dearly enjoy perusing your driving transcript.

> oh
> wait... there was that time on a bicycle that's exactly where I ended up
> by giving in to an asshole on the road and 'not playing'.

Why don't you know the difference between "biking" and "driving"?
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- gpsman