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Does this happen to anyone else?
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Does this happen to anyone else?
My rant
Whenever I go for a ride some kid with his mom’s minivan tries to pass me. Then some clown at a traffic light with a junk pickup with different colored doors, the rest painted in primer revs his motor, and wants to race me. The pickup today sounded like the motor was underwater.
I was sitting at a light waiting for it to turn green just as it turns an Infinity goes by me in the next lane over. He of course didn’t have to stop at the light so he pumps his fist out the window like he beat me at the light. I’m sure when he tells his buddies he’ll leave out the part that he didn’t need to even slow down at the light.
When I drove by a road crew in downtown Portland I heard one guy say I bet the car has never been over 65 miles an hour. People
Whenever I go for a ride some kid with his mom’s minivan tries to pass me. Then some clown at a traffic light with a junk pickup with different colored doors, the rest painted in primer revs his motor, and wants to race me. The pickup today sounded like the motor was underwater.
I was sitting at a light waiting for it to turn green just as it turns an Infinity goes by me in the next lane over. He of course didn’t have to stop at the light so he pumps his fist out the window like he beat me at the light. I’m sure when he tells his buddies he’ll leave out the part that he didn’t need to even slow down at the light.
When I drove by a road crew in downtown Portland I heard one guy say I bet the car has never been over 65 miles an hour. People
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Maybe it's the pace car package? 
I have recently done some considerable interstate highway type driving in mine. I didn't notice much out of the ordinary iritation with trying to use the cruise and traffic. But that also happens with my other vehicles .
The late George Carlin said it best. Anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster is a maniac.
I have recently done some considerable interstate highway type driving in mine. I didn't notice much out of the ordinary iritation with trying to use the cruise and traffic. But that also happens with my other vehicles .
The late George Carlin said it best. Anyone going slower than you is an idiot and anyone going faster is a maniac.
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Might be the Pace car package 
I don't get those now with the A/E, occasionally with the Torch Red '97 Coupe. More by far in my former persona, an '84 Fiero Indy Pace car clone, white with all of the lettering, the Caddy V8 sounds like a SB Chevy. Just give them a little hint, then watch them race themselves, watching a doofus get a ticket can be cheap entertainment
I don't get those now with the A/E, occasionally with the Torch Red '97 Coupe. More by far in my former persona, an '84 Fiero Indy Pace car clone, white with all of the lettering, the Caddy V8 sounds like a SB Chevy. Just give them a little hint, then watch them race themselves, watching a doofus get a ticket can be cheap entertainment
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In my teen years, I had to take a remedial driving course (imagine that!). Actually it was a pretty good course as I still remember many of the things the instructor shared with us.
In this case, he said "Always put the idiot in front of you. You can't control him when he's behind you, but you regain control when he's in front of you." At the time I had to think that through but it was great advise. Today when someone wants to race or beat me at a light, I ignore them and let them 'win' so they are in front of me - I then can easily see them, choose my distance from them, turn off the street they're on, or let them flush out the cop sitting up the road. It's all good, and safer too.
When I was challenged last month at a light by a kid with a ricer, my MP3 player was playing Jan & Dean's "Deadman's Curve" - I laughed my a$$ off as the kid tore off on his way to glory or wherever LOL!
In this case, he said "Always put the idiot in front of you. You can't control him when he's behind you, but you regain control when he's in front of you." At the time I had to think that through but it was great advise. Today when someone wants to race or beat me at a light, I ignore them and let them 'win' so they are in front of me - I then can easily see them, choose my distance from them, turn off the street they're on, or let them flush out the cop sitting up the road. It's all good, and safer too.
When I was challenged last month at a light by a kid with a ricer, my MP3 player was playing Jan & Dean's "Deadman's Curve" - I laughed my a$$ off as the kid tore off on his way to glory or wherever LOL!
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Around the Memphis area, there seems to be the desire to pass me at ANY cost. I am sure that every POS car/truck/van has a great story to tell as to how they "beat" a Corvette. I think it is sort of a right of passage to say you passed an American Legend.
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Haven't had anything like that happen in a long time, thankfully. But there are always idiots out there behind the wheel.
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I experienced the opposite today. Well kinda. My DD is a Toyota Sienna. A BMW Z3 pulled up at the light and is reving his motor and staring at me in the van. It was funny. Anyway, his Z3 sounded like my Wahl electric groomer/trimmer. No wait, my Wahl sounds much better. The Beamer sounded like a dentist drill.