While driving in Houston, a short while ago, I was driving backwards in Drive. Really, if you try to keep the legal distance between you and the car in front of you, so many cars fill in the gap that you end up driving backwards. Each time a car slips in, you are supposed to give some distance for a safe stop. I think the 35 mile drive took me almost 1.5 hours.
It would seem that if more people were more courteous in the vehicle, the traffic would flow, fewer accidents, no road rage. I mean COME ON PEOPLE, WORK WITH ME HERE!!
I know the drivers didn't learn any of that in drivers ed. So people have gone from timid teenagers, cautiously learning the ropes, to Daytona drivers on the freeway. You know the ones, getting right on your tail, pushing you out of their way. I'm sure wherever they are going is so much more important than where I may be traveling, but don't I have the right to get their in one piece? It's not that I drive like the little ol lady from Pasadena, but I try to give myself enough room to get out of an emergency situation or at least give me a fighting chance of survival.
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to arrive at your destination and feel happy instead of angry, frustrated and abused. Next time your in the car and a driver passes you, glaring at you since you were in their way, wave and smile at them like you know them. Sure does put a shocked expression on their face. I think they wouldn't want an neighbor or friend to realize they drive like an idiot. What do you think?
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