Cyril Haearn wrote:Schadenfreude Plus One, just damage to vehicles, one wonders whether they learnt from their experience
One doubts it somehow
All them shunters will have found one at the front to blame. But how can any of them be wrong if they own a SUV? Everyone knows that SUV purchasers are wholly rational at all time. especially when listening to the advertman then rushing out to buy one.
Tailgaters are legion these days. They are on a mission, possibly to get home in time to watch a soap opera, so they know how to behave (shout a lot and abuse the neighbours). Some merely wish to indicate to you that "I could drive along here much faster than you, girlyman".
I would like a rear sign thing I can message them with. "Please pass so you'll have your crash elsewhere". Or perhaps something simpler such as "Go away" or words to that effect.
In practice, best to ignore them and continue to drive with care and attention, especially through the speed limits which advise a maximum not a minimum, which minimum may well be a lot less than the maximum, to keep the bairns, cats and grannies safe as they cross the road. The tailgater will just have to miss the first bit of Beast Renders, which is anyway the same as last week's episode; and every other episode.
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes