Originally Posted by marlinspike
On the left lane thing, I think we out to just say you can't use the highways unless you can pass a German driving test (which involve lane discipline, emergency lane changes, and changing a flat tire...or at least they used to not sure if this still goes on). Things move so much more efficiently if the left lane is used for passing and passing only.
Anyways, on to road rage. So I'm on a two-lane (one in each diretion) road at night with a 55mph speed limit, and there is this Ford SUV doing about 25-30. I keep my proper following distance until I come to a passing zone, and proceed to pass. Just as I roll out to pass, he nails his brakes. I think, that's odd, maybe he was just overzealously trying to make it easy for me to pass. About a minute later he's about 5 inches from my bumper with his highbeams on, and makes it clear that no matter how fast I go he's going to stay that close to my bumper. He follows me through some side roads, through a gas station, I get enough ground on him to lose him, but I figure I'll just wait at the redlight in case it has one of those cameras and see what happens (I figure there are a few people about, he probably won't kill me). He comes up behind me, get out of his car, walks up to mine, starts threatening me and telling me he's going to kick my ass (which is laughable because he's marginally sober and about 8 inches shorter than me). I just acted politely and said I apologize for whatever I did to upset him and after about a minute of yelling he goes back to his car and speeds off. I still don't know to this day what his problem was.