Pulled over several times tonight to
let the inbred go by. It may seem paranoid - and maybe
it is, but for the moment it makes me feel safer.
Washington state does nothing to stop tailgaters and
I've been wondering why that might be. Circular
analysis usually leads to what causes tailgating. I
have after much deliberation on the tailgating thing
concluded, from direct observation, that the issue is
directly correlated with the increased number of
gapers.
A gaper is a clueless soul; one who uses his or her car
or pickup truck to obstruct the expected flow of
traffic. Here's the scenario: It is rush hour - it is
raining, or not - and everybody expects to do the speed
limit of let's say 45 mph. The gaper is up front doing
39 mph. Everybody behind the gaper is tailgating the
guy immediately in front of them thinking this will
cause them to do the Marty move and bail for the
shoulder to let them past. Only Marty does the Marty
move so they are screwed, and one little gaper stab on
a brake pedal away from a multiple vehicle pile up.
In Washington state, gapers seem to set up shop in the
left most lane and if there is a car load of gapers
they will occupy the HOV lane. If you want to make time
on Washington freeways you should be in the right most
lane - which is completely ass backwards of most of the
other states in the union except Oregon and Missouri.
As a clinician, I have wondered how one becomes a
gaper. I think, from overhearing a gaper who was
defending their behavior, that they have a need to make
everybody drive safer which to this one gaper meant
doing a little less than the speed limit. "It isn't a
speed requirement you know - it is a speed limit".
Hmmm. I think some have an oppositional defiant
personality disorder. For others maybe, their wife does
strange and painful things to them in the bedroom and
they cover this inferiority by being a dick out in
public.
For most though, it seems pure simpleton behavior.
These creatures are dull, unaware of their
surroundings, and maifestly cluelsss about how their
actions affect others. Unfortunately, based on the
rapid growth of gapers, it seems they reproduce with
abandon.