Dear Driver in front of me on my way to work,
Why, oh why, must you incessantly tap your brakes for no apparent reason. I understand you became alarmed when you noticed you were going 52 km/h in a 50 zone, but did you know that by relieving the pressure your foot is putting on the gas pedal that your car will slow its pace without having to brake? Since you are on a relatively level road, the decrease in acceleration will happen naturally and not cause a chain reaction of undue panic in the cars behind you.
(image courtesy of diymyhonda.com)
Instead, in a town littered with reckless wild animals that like to create their own crossing spots, you choose to feather your brakes causing drivers behind you to look for invisible dangers encroaching the sides of the road. Your reckless braking in the wee hours of the still darkened morning is causing those needing more caffeine (such as myself) to shout obscenities that should not even be thought of that early in the morning let alone uttered aloud at a decibel suited for a live concert.
Perhaps my opinion is somewhat jaded since I have been driving a stick-shift since I was 17 and am used to gearing down rather than braking, but, for the love of God please stop putting your brakes on every 10 seconds when there is nothing ahead of you but the open road and no wild beasts leaping from the woods to ambush your car.
I thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.
Sincerely,
The person that flipped you off from the CR-V behind you.
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Sometimes its a p/a attempt from the other driver that you are getting too close to them (directly linked to their own panic that they were going a hefty 2 mph over the limit). This is similar to the person who complains about personal space on the subway during rush hour. Buddy, you are in the WROOONG city for space!
Lol….well, I can definitely tell you I was at least two car lengths back!! Had I been closer they may have actually heard me swearing from my car. 😉
That is a MAJOR pet peeve for me! All I can say is they must go through a lot of brake pads each year.
And I hope they’re really expensive brake pads!!
good advice – ha haha
I should learn to have more coffee at home….*sigh*
no, then you would not have a good observational post such as this for our reading pleasure
Lol….point noted!!
All you did was flip him off?
Surely there was some cretive cursing and/or questioniong of parental lineage?
Oh, there was some creative cursing all right…thankfully I left my dog home today. She would have been scarred for life!!
Agreed. It’s especially bad when my wife is driving since she feels that when the brake lights of the car in front of her go on, this constitutes a major emergency that must be solved via heavy pressing on her own brake pedal.
Thankfully I don’t do that, or the guy behind me may have been writing the same letter this morning. 😀
I say you flash your high beams every time they tap their brakes. If they get mad and confront you, tell them you were concerned there was something they couldn’t see and thought illuminating the road would help avoid an accident 😉
Lol….I like that. Or….I buy bigger, knobbier tires and just drive over them. It’s Monday after all…I’m sure the judge would understand. 🙂
LOL! If your luck is anything like mine, the judge was the one in front of you 🙂
Ooh, didn’t think of that….thanks for having my back!! 😉
Oh, that drives me crazy! The only thing that really irks my nerves more than that is an inability to uses blinkers! Talk about making the obscenities fly!!
Thankfully I didn’t have to find out if said bad driver utilized blinkers or not. They just followed the road, braking all the way and I turned before they did!!
People are dumb, but it seems to me they get even dumber once behind the steering wheel of a motor vehicle.
Right??
Um, yeah.
A stick-shift since you were 17? Seriously?? I’m beyond impressed.
LOL …..it really comes in handy in the winters here. I can get out of almost any snow situation. 🙂
Oh, that is SO annoying! We followed someone like that on the highway for about 50 miles on our way up here before we could overtake! ARGH!
I know….it’s so frustrating!!
I had to drive with a person that insisted on honking the horn every time he was going to pass a street on his right – it was embarrassing and kind of weird….he was probably a brake tapper too.
I had another slight episode with one this morning. Do they not know brake pads and drums are expensive when they are worn?
Not one wit of knowledge!