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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 3526583" data-attributes="member: 24357">You make a good point here.  My intent was to talk about bad driving, and a growing concern that I had, I was not intent on saying that you should slam on your breaks to discourage tailgating, I was trying to imply (as you gathered) that a law suit was the only real reason for that action; yes, break slamming a tailgater is flawed.  Apologies if anyone misunderstood that.Nerfherder makes a good point that a car is a weapon, in fact vehicle accidents kill more people then just about anything out there (Harmon- avoid getting political).Here in California I use a turn signal only when I want someone to get out of my blind spot, or to signal them that ‘you need to pass me, cause I am about to move into your lane.’It’s a thing I learned that if someone is within… oh, two hundred feet and they see a turn signal come on they will (no matter your speed difference) attempt to pass you when you turn on that signal.  Cops I have found are the worst at this.  Cops also seem to like my blind spot, but that is for another paragraph.FickleGM- dude, I was so you about fifteen years ago (okay, so you said you had changed, but…).  I once drove from Boise to Salinas (about 800 miles) in just under ten hours.  Two gas stops, no food.  I thought at one time that I saw a cop behind me, but he never caught up.  It was incredibly stupid, esp. the drive down the Sierras and the insane moves I made, why?  To get home in time to see my wife before she took off for a seminar.  It was stupid.I called California (they moved back here recently to sell their rental property- have to live here two years or pay a lot more on Capital Gains), they helped a bit, and one lady checked and told me that he did not have a license here in California.  So I called Idaho and they were playing all nice until they heard something about California.  No help.  So I called back, got someone else (my intent), and I was told that there was nothing I could do from California (I never mentioned the state that time?  Co Worker?  Caller ID?).  “I think he’s a hazard, he moved his driving foot by lifting his leg with his hand and placing it on a different peddle- you won’t help me save lives?”  “You need to talk to him.”  “He refuses to acknowledge that he has anymore of a disability- hello?”  Ya, hung up on.Thank you for the attempt, Angel, but I think I need to just get in a vehicle with him, and ask him to stop as soon as I say- “Stop!” and see what he does, if he flips out then I will have to explain to him that he’s a danger I can’t have around his grand daughter.  With our present relationship, that should be the nail in the coffin for us.   <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Thanks allps- I have sent them an email, in hopes that I can find a non prejudice person in Idaho (that doesn't hate Californians).Thanks</blockquote>

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