I find myself in Cockeysville Maryland the next couple weeks. Close enough to Washington D.C. that the driving style is extremely cutthroat. What is up with THAT? - Yet the people, in person, have a near southern etiquette about them. "Good Evening" takes the place of the New England "Hey" but don't even consider anything other than knowing the exact most proficient way to get to a place if you get behind the wheel of a car. Of course everyone here was apparently born with this knowledge. Lane choice can be a matter of life and death. We don't necessarily invite you in in the Boston area, but it's not the end of our world if you don't know where you're going or you make a bad lane choice and (God forbid!) have to (no, don't say it!) CHANGE LANES!!!! - Here it is an unwritten rule that NO MATTER WHAT there shall ALWAYS be less than one car length between cars lest someone TAKE THE SPACE that they are about to be in. What a bunch of driving 'wipes.
Let me illuminate all ye driving 'wipes. Following another moving object closer than about 2 seconds will get you to the NEXT STOP a few milliseconds sooner... and that is worth putting your life in MY FEET? - I could kill any number of these 'wipes by simply randomly applying my brakes. Chances are I would walk and there would be a forty car pile up behind me. Forty 'wipes not driving? - Hmmm - maybe not procreating? - HMMM! - I'll be right back! - I need to go do a public service!
It's just that this would have to be done to the entire D.C. area, and there probably would be about 11 drivers left alive after I went out for an evening set on correcting this issue.
What makes someone, ordinarily intelligent in other areas; ignore quantum mechanics and laws of physics and such? - Are they above THESE laws? Does the spacetime continuum NOT apply to them somehow? I'm in a rental car - If I were a "teach them a lesson" type I could have a field day. It's not exactly a hit and run if you are the one getting hit, right? - I'm thinking of timesavings here - I could take several poor drivers out per hit and maximize the number by not lingering at the scene...
I am making a bumper sticker that says: TAILGATING ELIMINATES ITSELF FROM THE GENE POOL but I don't think many of the 'wipes will get it without further instruction.
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And, 2 weeks later, or in full-function English :-) a FORTNIGHT :-) later...
Have you gotten used to it?
As someone who quite often drives in DC and suburban Maryland I've never really noticed your phenomena. But then I DO drive in the UK. :-)
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