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myne
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October 2005
Re: Overtaking Habits Thu, 20 October 2005 07:01 Go to previous message
Aggressive overtaking in traffic is futile.
I learned this one day when I was 19, late to work and I must have passed the same volvo towing a trailer 3 times.
I floored it past, then my lane slowed down. So I changed and floored it past. Rinse, repeat - it was like some deity was fucking with me.
After the 3rd time I admitted defeat and cracked up laughing at myself.

Since then, I've learned to flow into gaps rather than boot it.
I end up overtaking more people without breaking the limit, without stressing, and without causing anyone else to stress.

Aside from that, when it's not peak hour, the only real time someone REALLY REALLY shits me is when I sit, at a respectable distance -but close enough that it should be evident that I wish to be past- on a road that has overtaking lanes and they dont use them!
Nothing makes me more irrational. I've done some very dodgy overtake because of that.
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