"N8N" > wrote in message
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> Skip Elliott Bowman wrote:
>> "N8N" > wrote in message
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>> >
>> > Big Bill wrote:
>> >> On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:02:53 -0500, Nate Nagel
> >
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> So you're saying that I should extend courtesy to other
> drivers?
>> >> >> If so, prepare yourself! That's heresy!
>> >> >> If, OTOH, you're saying that if I have to yield before making a
>> >> >> maneuver that *MIGHT* affect other drivers, making them slow
> down
>> > or
>> >> >> change lanes (the HORROR!), I should forego the maneuver?
>> >> >
>> >> >That's exactly correct.
>> >> >
>> >> >> Get real. It's called *TRAFFIC*, and other drivers have to
> adjust
>> > to
>> >> >> it every time they drive.
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> >That doesn't mean you should deliberately drive like an a-hole.
>> >> >
>> >> >nate
>> >>
>> >> So you think I should go out of my way (even MILES out of my way),
> so
>> >> you can have a slightly easier drive?
>> >> Is lifting off the gas pedal that much of a strain?
>> >> Are you rteally that important?
>> >> Get over yourself; everybody isn't driving just to **** you off.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Why would you have to go miles out of your way? Just step on the
>> > little skinny pedal on the right when passing. It's really not
> that
>> > hard. And no, not everyone is driving to **** me off, just some
>> > people, like you.
>>
>> I don't drive to **** off anyone. But if I'm passing someone legally
> and
>> during the pass see you roaring up from behind doing 30 mph over the
> speed
>> limit, if you want to pass me then you'll just have to wait until I'm
> done
>> and move over. You don't like it, rear-end my car. I could use the
> money.
>> Lead-foot bullies aren't worth my sweat.
>
> That's not what we're talking about at all, what we're talking about is
> Bill's admitted practice of being in the right lane, seeing the faster
> driver approaching, and pulling out to pass anyway.

If Bill can complete the pass without impeding the approaching-from-behind
driver's speed and progress, where's the problem?

Although if you
> end up in the scenario you describe above a lot, you might want to
> check your mirrors a little more often.

I don't and I always do, respectively.