I'm not whining. I'm bitching. Subtle difference, but hey, it's not like I have anything else to talk about.

I probably told this some other time on Mudcat before. I was driving to work after a pretty nasty storm and passed 5 vehicles in ditches. Every last one of 'em was 4 wheel drive. While I'm sure some of the drivers of those vehicles think they could do figure 8s on a skating rink at 50 mph, I think the major problem is that you don't get much minor sliding so you don't realise just how slippery the road is until you lose it completely.

And then there are the jokers in the rear wheel (or front wheel) drive cars who assume a sportscar isn't going to have any better traction than their car and decide I'm going to slow, so the jerks tailgate me. (It's all-wheel drive, but THEY don't know that.) Some times I slow down more, sometimes I just tap the break lights. If I'm in a really bad mood, I'll speed up just a teensy bit and watch them back off when they start going 'whoopsie' around a curve, then I slow back down.