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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 9821053" data-attributes="member: 19675">Confession time:On a road trip in my 20s, I was sorta that guy…for one driver in particular.We were the lead car in a column of 8-9, all speeding in the passing lane on the interstate.  Because I don’t own a radar detector, I’ll slow down when lines of sight favored speed traps and when traffic got more congested.Well after a while, the jeep at the tail end had had enough, and decided to pass all the cars ahead of him in one go, using the slow lane.But he timed his first run poorly, and wound up right next to me as I slowed to navigate some heavier traffic.  By the time our column passed the slower traffic, he was end of the queue again.  He tried a second time; same results.On his third attempt, I deliberately tried to engineer a similar result, and succeeded.In his 4th attempt, he started getting frustrated.  I could see him slamming on his steering wheel.  Better still, the people behind me were visibly cracking up.This happened several times over the next half hour of driving time, only ending when we reached the outskirts of San Antonio and the the freeway opened more lanes.Was I wrong?  Unsafe?  Absolutely.  And I never did it again.OTOH, it probably never would have happened had he been more polite and just passed 1-2 cars at a time instead of attempting 8-9 all at once.No joke, there’s a field a little west of me with a sign for a development that is “COMING IN 2016!”.And to my southeast, there’s an overgrown field with a 30’ tall square brick tower on its northwestern corner with some kind of business park style name in its stonework.  It gives off a very “Ozymandias” vibe.</blockquote>

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