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So today is Friday, the start of a long weekend. I live over 30 miles from my work. The highway I take home connects to Yosemite National Park and two Recreational lakes.
So by the time I get off work and headed home there are a million other people headed the same way I am. I stop on the way home and load 15 bales of hay in the truck making it weigh over 8000 lbs.
At the last stoplight before the highway turns up hill there is a passing lane [ the next safe place to pass is another 10 miles of uphill driving. ] My truck will easily do highway speeds going up hill with a load [but not all will]. When we get to the passing lane a school bus pulls to the right lane to let others pass. [ He is one who can't maintain speed going up!] about three cars ahead of me is a little commuter car, instead of picking up speed and allowing other cars to get out ahead of the bus He slows down so that only "he" can get ahead of the bus. Well the bus driver sees this and brings his bus to a stop, I guess he did not want any of this! The car behind the commuter is now pretty close so the jerk in the little car starts brake checking the cars behind him. But because the bus stopped two cars got around him. that left me directly behind his car.
Now I have already seen him playing games with two other cars but those behind me can't see what's going on [ big truck full of hay]. Without trying to cause too much delay for those behind me I give this guy some room. But he is still speeding away and slowing to 10 miles an hour! This goes on for about 5 miles with him still waving his arms out the window.
Before we got to the next passing area this guy must have gotten some sense of sanity because he takes off to make sure I don't get in front of him. he cuts off two more drivers, and makes a couple quick lane changes to get about 10 cars between us. I'm pretty happy to see him go!
But another couple miles up the road I make my turn off the highway and who ends up right in front of me again?
He see's me behind him and panics, I see him rolling up his windows, and peeking at me in his mirrors, [ I guess to see if I'm going to come out of my truck] The light turns green, He peels out of there, and as he turns I get a good look at him! His kids go to the same school as my grandkids! His wife shops at the same stores as my wife! He lives not more than two miles from my house! But he is looking at me like I'm following him!
Three short stop signs later he turns off in another direction because he still thinks I'm following him!
Now what do I do? The wife and kids are nice enough people. But I'm not usually the kind not to say something!
I did call the school and congratulate their driver for keeping clear of the idiot!
This is a very small community and I am sure to run into him soon.
So what do You all think? Let him be? Let him know who I am and what I think of him?
DR
So by the time I get off work and headed home there are a million other people headed the same way I am. I stop on the way home and load 15 bales of hay in the truck making it weigh over 8000 lbs.
At the last stoplight before the highway turns up hill there is a passing lane [ the next safe place to pass is another 10 miles of uphill driving. ] My truck will easily do highway speeds going up hill with a load [but not all will]. When we get to the passing lane a school bus pulls to the right lane to let others pass. [ He is one who can't maintain speed going up!] about three cars ahead of me is a little commuter car, instead of picking up speed and allowing other cars to get out ahead of the bus He slows down so that only "he" can get ahead of the bus. Well the bus driver sees this and brings his bus to a stop, I guess he did not want any of this! The car behind the commuter is now pretty close so the jerk in the little car starts brake checking the cars behind him. But because the bus stopped two cars got around him. that left me directly behind his car.
Now I have already seen him playing games with two other cars but those behind me can't see what's going on [ big truck full of hay]. Without trying to cause too much delay for those behind me I give this guy some room. But he is still speeding away and slowing to 10 miles an hour! This goes on for about 5 miles with him still waving his arms out the window.
Before we got to the next passing area this guy must have gotten some sense of sanity because he takes off to make sure I don't get in front of him. he cuts off two more drivers, and makes a couple quick lane changes to get about 10 cars between us. I'm pretty happy to see him go!
But another couple miles up the road I make my turn off the highway and who ends up right in front of me again?
He see's me behind him and panics, I see him rolling up his windows, and peeking at me in his mirrors, [ I guess to see if I'm going to come out of my truck] The light turns green, He peels out of there, and as he turns I get a good look at him! His kids go to the same school as my grandkids! His wife shops at the same stores as my wife! He lives not more than two miles from my house! But he is looking at me like I'm following him!
Three short stop signs later he turns off in another direction because he still thinks I'm following him!
Now what do I do? The wife and kids are nice enough people. But I'm not usually the kind not to say something!
I did call the school and congratulate their driver for keeping clear of the idiot!
This is a very small community and I am sure to run into him soon.
So what do You all think? Let him be? Let him know who I am and what I think of him?
DR