Diesel drivers, from being slower, are we harassed more by men or women drivers?
More than once in my not so swift 85 300D I have been tailed close in or had lights flashed at me at close distance by another driver following me in some 300hp SUV or some souped up import sedan.
The other thing I love is having the Horn button hit some 20 times in sucession by a fellow driver trying to pass me. My 85 300D is respectable, but it just isn't a 300hp burner.
The gfinal thing is the FINGER or screamed obscenities.
I kept a statistical count for several weeks. 9 out of 10 times it was some pyscho lady. Not all ladies. A lot of classy ladies and pretty ladies behave well, they patiently let you in or they just smile when they pass. Some even wave. To all those ladies, I salute you and I will help you change your Flat someday when I pass you on the side of the road on a Rainy day.
I wish I had a photographic memory. To all those mean and nasty ladies who have horned, flashed and fingered me, and whom probably speed up to hit raccoons, when i see you someday with a Flat on the side of the road on a cold, wet freezing dark night, I will still stop. I wil roll my window down, and ask them softly " Excuse me, can I have directions to the Shopping mall?" or "Say, geez, seems like you car is having trouble. I dont know much about cars, but the air for the horn comes from your tires. I think you used it all up!?"
(JUST KIDDING. I am very behaved and resepctable and dont believe in being mean to people. This was written in comedy)
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