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Here's another driver type to watch out for
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Here's another driver type to watch out for
If you drive a manual anything these days and don't blast away from every light, keep an eye in the rear view mirror for those behind you. If, like me, you normally do a casual shift from first to second, your car will momentarily slow until the next gear is engaged and throttle re-applied. That is when the inattentive, cell-phone-yakking cretin behind you will bump your butt. You can usually spot the dangerous ones before you shift--they'll be about six inches off your bumper--and take appropriate action.
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If you drive a manual anything these days and don't blast away from every light, keep an eye in the rear view mirror for those behind you. If, like me, you normally do a casual shift from first to second, your car will momentarily slow until the next gear is engaged and throttle re-applied. That is when the inattentive, cell-phone-yakking cretin behind you will bump your butt. You can usually spot the dangerous ones before you shift--they'll be about six inches off your bumper--and take appropriate action.
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Why do some drivers feel the need to crawl up your exhaust pipes at a stop? Is it a psychological need to be close to someone? Is it some weird, perverted sexual thing?
I place tailgaters at #2 on my all-time list of ignorant drivers, behind texters and before cell-phone-yakking 16 year-old girls.
I place tailgaters at #2 on my all-time list of ignorant drivers, behind texters and before cell-phone-yakking 16 year-old girls.
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We have a lot of those tailgating type of drivers around here - always have to be on the lookout for the idiots behind you.
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Why do some drivers feel the need to crawl up your exhaust pipes at a stop? Is it a psychological need to be close to someone? Is it some weird, perverted sexual thing?
I place tailgaters at #2 on my all-time list of ignorant drivers, behind texters and before cell-phone-yakking 16 year-old girls.
I place tailgaters at #2 on my all-time list of ignorant drivers, behind texters and before cell-phone-yakking 16 year-old girls.
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Sorry about that. I didn't mean to tap your bumper. The ketchup from my burger I was eating squirted on my shirt when I went to flick the ashes off my cigarette out the window. I couldn't move my foot fast enough because I would have spilled the "soda" I was holding between my knees.
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Im use to tailgaters here. If they hit me then I guess they will be buying me the TS rear end. 
Thats not all that hard. The more you drive your car the easier it will be to not roll back. 
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