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I am not the LLB!!
I hate this more than anything.
Two, maybe three lanes of freeway. Doing about 75, 77 or so in a 65, roughly at or slightly above the 85th percentile speed. I get into the left lane to pass some slower traffic, and lo and behold, there's mister LLB, poking along at 65. I creep in behind him, s.l.o.w.l.y. passing the other traffic. Another car slowly catches up to us over the course of a couple of miles. Then the insane but predictable, the car starts darting in and out of lanes until he squeezes into the 6 or 7 car length gap between me and the LLB. He pulls up to the tail of the LLB. Finally, the LLB moves out of the way, and the guy pushing him?? He becomes a slightly faster LLB. Instead of being stuck behind an LLB doing 65, I'm now behind one doing 69. Similarly, there's the people that pull up almost to the rear bumper while I'm maintaining a few car lengths behind an LLB. This is a favorite of people that drive large pickups and SUVs to compensate for part of their anatomy. As soon as the LLB changes lanes, I drive off and leave them sitting back there, never to be seen again, until I get hung up behind another LLB. Why is this? |
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I am not the LLB!!
Brent P:
> Most secondary LLBs, the ones who sit in the left lane behind an LLB are > no better than the driver they are behind. Usually they tailgate the LLB > so I sit back and use my left turn signal to try to indicate to the moron > that he needs to wake up the LLB in front of him. rarely works that way > but sometimes it gets them to move right in which case I can work on > waking up the LLB. Much of the time the LLB eventually moves over on his own > and the secondary just takes his place. Since I usually KRETP anyway, I just pass them on the right and be done with them. And most of the time, the right lane is clear for miles anyway. -- necromancer Deadly Psychopath. And Proud of it, Man!! |
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I am not the LLB!!
! wrote:
> I hate this more than anything. > > Two, maybe three lanes of freeway. Doing about 75, 77 or so in a 65, > roughly at or slightly above the 85th percentile speed. Oh shut up with that 85th percentile crap, you criminal coddler. Nobody wants to hear how it's ok to break the law as long as somebody else is doing the same. Stop being a sheep and going along with the crowd on everything. |
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I am not the LLB!!
! wrote:
> I hate this more than anything. > > Two, maybe three lanes of freeway. Doing about 75, 77 or so in a 65, > roughly at or slightly above the 85th percentile speed. I get into the > left lane to pass some slower traffic, and lo and behold, there's > mister LLB, poking along at 65. I creep in behind him, s.l.o.w.l.y. > passing the other traffic. Another car slowly catches up to us over > the course of a couple of miles. > > Then the insane but predictable, the car starts darting in and out of > lanes until he squeezes into the 6 or 7 car length gap between me and > the LLB. He pulls up to the tail of the LLB. Finally, the LLB moves > out of the way, and the guy pushing him?? That's a lot of real estate. I occasionally see morons squeeze into a 2-3 car length gap in front of me. > > He becomes a slightly faster LLB. Instead of being stuck behind an LLB > doing 65, I'm now behind one doing 69. > > Similarly, there's the people that pull up almost to the rear bumper > while I'm maintaining a few car lengths behind an LLB. This sounds strikingly familiar to me. > This is a > favorite of people that drive large pickups and SUVs to compensate > for part of their anatomy. As soon as the LLB changes lanes, I drive > off and leave them sitting back there, never to be seen again, until I > get hung up behind another LLB. > Last time this happened to me it was a ****ing Honda Accord. > Why is this? > People are assholes. |
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I am not the LLB!!
On Jun 19, 11:43 am, Speeders & Drunk Drivers are MURDERERS
> wrote: > ! wrote: > > I hate this more than anything. > > > Two, maybe three lanes of freeway. Doing about 75, 77 or so in a 65, > > roughly at or slightly above the 85th percentile speed. > > Oh shut up with that 85th percentile crap, you criminal coddler. Nobody > wants to hear how it's ok to break the law as long as somebody else is > doing the same. This coming from a nutjob who professes to throw marbles out the window, as if that's not against the law. |
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I am not the LLB!!
On Jun 19, 7:47 am, (Brent P)
wrote: > In article .com>, wrote: > > > while I'm maintaining a few car lengths behind an LLB. This is a > > favorite of people that drive large pickups and SUVs to compensate > > for part of their anatomy. As soon as the LLB changes lanes, I drive > > off and leave them sitting back there, never to be seen again, until I > > get hung up behind another LLB. > > Why is this? > > Because you are not doing anything about the LLB I'll guess or they are > just morons. Since you are refering to tailgating to pressure you I'll go > with the later, but if you are so far behind the LLB that someone can > comfortably change lanes into that gap you're at the very least > magnifying the problem the LLB is creating. But that's the problem, they're not comfortably changing lanes. I've got 6-7 car lengths tops. They'll nearly take my right front fender off, then accelerate up to the tail of the LLB, then brake. And what can I do to the LLB besides tailgate? It's been my experience that if you tailgate someone, they'll deliberately drive slower out of spite, or even hit the brakes. And if you do tailgate, the secondary LLB that would have jumped between you just pulls up on your tail, boxing you in in the middle of a three car draft train, which is a situation I don't want to be in. |
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I am not the LLB!!
> Why is this?
Your practice of catching up s.l.o.w.l.y to the LLB may be part of the problem. It doesn't make it obvious to him that you want him to get over. Roar up to 1-2 car lengths behind him, honk, then back off, and he'll be more likely to notice you. (Don't repeat on the same guy -- if he doesn't take the hint the first time, he knows and has decided to block you, so it's probably more cost effective to find a creative way to get past him in other lane/s.) |
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I am not the LLB!!
John David Galt wrote:
>>Why is this? > > > Your practice of catching up s.l.o.w.l.y to the LLB may be part of the > problem. It doesn't make it obvious to him that you want him to get > over. > > Roar up to 1-2 car lengths behind him, honk, then back off, Yeah - you better back off if you pull that **** on me because if you don't, you're assured of being slowed down. I can only follow so closely and your being 1-2 car lengths off my ass at 75 is not going to make me go faster. And even if I did close the gap between me and the person in front of me, I wouldn't be going faster, I'd still be going the same speed. > and he'll > be more likely to notice you. (Don't repeat on the same guy -- if he > doesn't take the hint the first time, he knows and has decided to block > you, so it's probably more cost effective to find a creative way to get > past him in other lane/s.) |
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