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Old 10-03-2010, 05:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Miaplacidus View Post
Fair enough. I don't want to share the road with these people either. But what about all those skilled and coordinated drivers who simply do not want to drive at the speed limit? Such people exist, who enjoy driving just as much as the next person, but at a slower speed. Who is going to be so arrogant as to say they shouldn't be allowed on the very roads they pay taxes to maintain? As far as I am aware, there is no law saying everyone must travel as close to the speed limit as practical. (I might be tempted to point out that people driving fast are more likely to be stupid and uncoordinated.)
OK, but don't then enforce your rate of speed on me. People do this all the time, by traveling in the RH lane at "their" speed, oblivious to the train of cars behind them. Worse still are the "I have to be in front of you" drivers that for some reason have to be in front, then when they get there slow down? I have a very good cruise control, which at most varies by 2kmh on a downhill run, on the Hume on the way either to or from Winton there are usually dozens of drivers like this, they overtake me then slow down, so I have to overtake them, whence they speed up again. I usually just drop back 500 or so metres, then they give up and disappear. Does anyone know what they're doing? I know my car is nice to look at, but I'm not, particularly when I'm peed off by one of these idiots.

You may have been tempted to point out "that people driving fast are more likely to be stupid and uncoordinated", in fact you did, just by writing it down (did I type that out loud?). I might point you to another thread where unsupported inuendo should not be posted, but I can't be bothered. If you're going to accuse someone of something then do so, but be sure to have some sort of proof is all I ask.

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Originally Posted by Miaplacidus View Post
What about the foot path? Do you just push past the dawdlers and tell them they shouldn't be out unless they walk at a "reasonable" pace? Who is to say who is "out of step"?
Not on the footpath, but I detest people in shopping centres who dawdle or walk diagonally across the paths. This may stem from an intense hatred of shopping in shopping centres though, but it does really annoy me.

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Stuart