Rain Man
03-13-2010, 07:40 PM
Dear sir,
I really enjoyed driving behind you for 40 miles today on that winding mountain road. I learned every detail about the rear of your camper trailer, and will now recognize it any time I ever see it again. The fact that you hadn't cleaned the snow off of your trailer even made it exciting at times. It was kind of like being the Millennium Falcon in the meteor storm when those big clumps of snow would fall off of it.
I have a question for you, though. Did you notice all of those cars behind you? Those cars that couldn't pass you because there were only about three spots in 40 miles that weren't lined as double-yellow-die-if-you-try-to-pass?
What did you think about those cars? Did you wonder why you had a bunch of them behind you? Did you wonder why I, in the car directly behind you, kept creeping into the opposite lane to scout for an opportunity, any opportunity to pass?
And most importantly, what did you think about those big wide pulloff areas every couple of miles? Just for information purposes, those pulloff areas exist so that slow traffic can pull over if they're gumming up transportation for everyone else in the county. What do you think about that? Does it sound like a good concept? Does it sound reasonable that a driver...say, towing a trailer and driving 45 mph and randomly tapping their brakes in a 55-mph zone, causing a chain reaction of braking among the 20 cars behind it, might pull off at one of those and let all the 55-mph traffic pass them?
And I know it looked like there was a lot of traffic on the road, but trust me: those 20 cars behind you were only there because of you. The road's not really that busy.
By the way, just for information purposes, there were sure a lot of those pulloffs, weren't there? In fact, it would appear that you passed roughly 20 of those pulloff lanes in the 40-mile stretch where I was behind you.
While I'm here, let's talk about one other thing: those three tiny areas that weren't double-yellows. Yes, I could have passed you in perfect conditions. However, and I'm sure this wasn't intentional, but every time one of those areas came up, you and your trailer meandered over and rode the white line. This means that I can't see around you to determine if it's safe to pass. Your truck and trailer and the ATV you were carrying? Tall. My car? Not. Do you see the problem? In the future, please move to the right side of the lane when you're blocking traffic so that cars can see around you to pass. I understand that this might have taken you dangerously close to the pulloff area that you avoided so rigorously, but nonetheless it would have been a good idea.
So next time you're going under the speed limit on a curvy mountain road, would you mind looking behind you once in a while and perhaps using those pulloff lanes? Thanks in advance.
I really enjoyed driving behind you for 40 miles today on that winding mountain road. I learned every detail about the rear of your camper trailer, and will now recognize it any time I ever see it again. The fact that you hadn't cleaned the snow off of your trailer even made it exciting at times. It was kind of like being the Millennium Falcon in the meteor storm when those big clumps of snow would fall off of it.
I have a question for you, though. Did you notice all of those cars behind you? Those cars that couldn't pass you because there were only about three spots in 40 miles that weren't lined as double-yellow-die-if-you-try-to-pass?
What did you think about those cars? Did you wonder why you had a bunch of them behind you? Did you wonder why I, in the car directly behind you, kept creeping into the opposite lane to scout for an opportunity, any opportunity to pass?
And most importantly, what did you think about those big wide pulloff areas every couple of miles? Just for information purposes, those pulloff areas exist so that slow traffic can pull over if they're gumming up transportation for everyone else in the county. What do you think about that? Does it sound like a good concept? Does it sound reasonable that a driver...say, towing a trailer and driving 45 mph and randomly tapping their brakes in a 55-mph zone, causing a chain reaction of braking among the 20 cars behind it, might pull off at one of those and let all the 55-mph traffic pass them?
And I know it looked like there was a lot of traffic on the road, but trust me: those 20 cars behind you were only there because of you. The road's not really that busy.
By the way, just for information purposes, there were sure a lot of those pulloffs, weren't there? In fact, it would appear that you passed roughly 20 of those pulloff lanes in the 40-mile stretch where I was behind you.
While I'm here, let's talk about one other thing: those three tiny areas that weren't double-yellows. Yes, I could have passed you in perfect conditions. However, and I'm sure this wasn't intentional, but every time one of those areas came up, you and your trailer meandered over and rode the white line. This means that I can't see around you to determine if it's safe to pass. Your truck and trailer and the ATV you were carrying? Tall. My car? Not. Do you see the problem? In the future, please move to the right side of the lane when you're blocking traffic so that cars can see around you to pass. I understand that this might have taken you dangerously close to the pulloff area that you avoided so rigorously, but nonetheless it would have been a good idea.
So next time you're going under the speed limit on a curvy mountain road, would you mind looking behind you once in a while and perhaps using those pulloff lanes? Thanks in advance.