How close?
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RE: How close?
I've had a couple close calls but neither have been my fault...though I can say I didn't notice the second one.
1. Was on the freeway. There were 4 bikes. atruck decided he wanted my lane. I was at his window, it was down and I was almost close enough to stick my head it when I yelled at him!
2. Driving down a street minding my own business and a girl, doing god knows what, in an SUV bounces off the curb, takes part of my lane stopping with her window next to mine. I was looking behind me not beside me because there was a curb to that side. Scared me half to death. She didn't even know I was there. She was just fiddling with somethng around the radio......I so should have scard the crap out of her by banging on the window...I was close enough to scare her good. First time I spilt lanes on that rod to get out of her path...she hit the curb and bounced back into traffic at least 2 more times....everyone just gave her a really wide leeway.
1. Was on the freeway. There were 4 bikes. atruck decided he wanted my lane. I was at his window, it was down and I was almost close enough to stick my head it when I yelled at him!
2. Driving down a street minding my own business and a girl, doing god knows what, in an SUV bounces off the curb, takes part of my lane stopping with her window next to mine. I was looking behind me not beside me because there was a curb to that side. Scared me half to death. She didn't even know I was there. She was just fiddling with somethng around the radio......I so should have scard the crap out of her by banging on the window...I was close enough to scare her good. First time I spilt lanes on that rod to get out of her path...she hit the curb and bounced back into traffic at least 2 more times....everyone just gave her a really wide leeway.
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RE: How close?
A young lady pulling into the middle of a toys for tots run to join her old man whips out in front of me on her COUGH(metric).any how I swerved HARD left with the wife and I was ...She was then about 3-4 inches from my right side.
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RE: How close?
Man, I really did not know what to do.... I am coming home from work, very light traffic on the freeway, 3 lanes going north on 99. I am cruising along at 75 or so, clear dry roadway in the left (fast) lane, with no other traffic around me...
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
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RE: How close?
ORIGINAL: papa_freeman
Man, I really did not know what to do.... I am coming home from work, very light traffic on the freeway, 3 lanes going north on 99. I am cruising along at 75 or so, clear dry roadway in the left (fast) lane, with no other traffic around me...
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
Man, I really did not know what to do.... I am coming home from work, very light traffic on the freeway, 3 lanes going north on 99. I am cruising along at 75 or so, clear dry roadway in the left (fast) lane, with no other traffic around me...
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
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From: Greenfield, WI
RE: How close?
ORIGINAL: papa_freeman
Man, I really did not know what to do.... I am coming home from work, very light traffic on the freeway, 3 lanes going north on 99. I am cruising along at 75 or so, clear dry roadway in the left (fast) lane, with no other traffic around me...
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
Man, I really did not know what to do.... I am coming home from work, very light traffic on the freeway, 3 lanes going north on 99. I am cruising along at 75 or so, clear dry roadway in the left (fast) lane, with no other traffic around me...
some buffoon comes up behind me in a road barge 1995 Lincoln.... I notice him in the mirrors getting closer and closer... a rather large (oh, maybe 350 or so) gentleman with long stringy hair blowing in the wind out the open drivers window is behind the wheel.
f>>ker keeps getting closer and closer...
I recall in the MSF classes that unless you are impeding traffic, you should actually slow down a bit for a tailgater... if you speed up, you now simply have a faster tailgater...
I kept my speed at 75 thinking he would simply pass in the lane to the right.
The crazy bas#ard simply accelerates right past me in my own lane [>:], while I move a few inches to the left and now I am dancing on the double yellows...
I scream at this fool, giving the appropriate finger salute, which he immediately returns...I back off get in the lane to his right and politely invite him to take the next off ramp to discuss this further.
He flips me off again and accelerates up to about 90... followed for a few miles hoping he would exit, but never caught him...
OK, so what do you do?[sm=smiley15.gif]
I did have one similar to yours above when I lived in the Twin Cities 20 years ago. Cager started changing lanes into my lane on 35W without looking so I gave him the horn to let him know I was there which only pissed him off where he completed the lane change giving me the finger.
At this pointI'm 25 years old andpissed, so after regrouping, I catch up alongside him and start cussing up a storm so he tries to run me off the road completely. At the time I was unemployed and just out for a joyride on a nice day so I figure this guy was crazy and I wouldn't try to run alongside him again but that I would follow his a$$ until he pulled of/got to where he was going and I'd figure something out then. ****, I followed that old man close to 70 miles way outside of the Cities. I don't know if seeing me in his mirrors flipping him off everytime he looked made him decide to keep going or if he was going that way anyhow but I finally had cooled down enough that I turned around.
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