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Thread #154821   Message #3636691
Posted By: Steve Shaw
25-Jun-14 - 09:32 PM
Thread Name: BS: How Should I Deal With Tailgating?
Subject: RE: BS: How Should I Deal With Tailgating?
I drive fast at all times but I still get tailgated. I live in Cornwall, a place replete with narrow and twisty country roads. It is rare that I can go for more than a quarter of a mile or so without finding somewhere to pull over to let someone go past. Just let them go. It's easy. If you won't, or make excuses for why you won't, you are actually saying that what your real motive is is to sanctimoniously teach the tailgaters a lesson. Well you just won't manage that. Life's too short. Pull over, save your anxiety and quell their frustration. And the "I'm driving at the speed limit so the tailgaters can bugger off" argument doesn't wash either. In theory, extending that argument, you would be morally correct to stick yourself in the middle lane of the crowded M5 and drive at exactly 70. If you want to find out just what a twattish argument that is, just try doing it. Please report back your findings to this thread. Try to remember that driving is all about getting from A to B, not about setting out on a moral mission to teach flawed human beings in dangerous tin overcoats how to behave. Save that for this thread.