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Old 07-04-2008, 10:08 PM   #11 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by worthywads View Post
So what is the appeal of mastering the art of cutting people of with 2 inches of space between cars? If indeed the person that you cut off had to floor the brakes so did you, what did you gain?

In theory you are getting somewhere faster, but you aren't.
Ya, but people don't really think things through...

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Originally Posted by TrailDust View Post
Out here all you gain is that fleeting moment of "Fuck You!" at having performed the maneuver and gotten in that person's face. It's a way of life on California freeways. Of a similar vein, another of my favorites that's very common in SoCal is to approach a car in the lane at high-speed and perform what I call smart-ass lane changes, where you cut out of the lane at the last moment, missing the car's bumper by six inches or less, then doing the same thing at the front. Nothin' but idiots and jerks!

TrailDust (the one who enters a different world after leaving the Cajon Pass)
Dude it's not just SoCal, or New York, it's every big city at this point.
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