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SQLGeek wrote:

TXJK wrote: If I'm tailgating you in the right lane, I'm the . If I'm tailgating you in the fast lane, you're the . Move over.

Tell you what...if I'm in the left lane, going above the limit and passing traffic on my right, you can wait.

I cannot stand it when people tailgate. Kevin said it, it is aggressive and bullyish.

AMEN!

Nothing makes me angrier than people tailgating. Rush hour traffic is bad enough, but tailgaters make it worse because of the inevitable rear-end collisions, which means closed lanes and even SLOWER traffic. I swear, if I ever have the good fortune to see some tail-gater actually rear-end someone, I'm pulling over just to laugh at them and call them stupid. Nothing burns me up more...

I quit caring about speed traps around 1995, when the National Maximum Speed Law was repealed, allowing the states to set their own speed limits again. Typically this meant the end of the "55 MPH" speed limit on most major highways and interstates.

Back in the days before 1995, when the maximum speed limit was 55 MPH, I had little respect for the law. I followed it only because I feared a ticket, and exceeded the speed limit when I felt I could get away with it and the conditions were safe (such as daytime, light traffic, interstate highway...the roads that now have 70 MPH speed limits).

Nowadays, the speed limits are mostly reasonable, and I find myself driving the speed limit, or at most, maybe 5 miles per hour over the limit, and I find myself HOPING that speeders get stopped and ticketed, especially when driving along the same US-75 in Collin County, headed home to McKinney from Richardson, and seeing some idiot weaving in and out of rush hour traffic at 95 MPH. I get so angry when I see people driving like that, because inevitably there's an accident that blocks several lanes of traffic which means it takes me twice as long to get home.

I guess another factor is age...prior to 1995, I was in my 20s and early 30s. Now it's 2010 and I'm 40, so maybe I'm slowing down some just because I'm slowly becoming a cranky old man.

MojoTexas