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For years now I have accepted the penalty for being a law-abiding citizen as my just punishment. No more. No more moving aside. No more guilt for not breaking the law. Speeders be damned! I'm driving the speed limit from now on and not a nickel more. |
| Big trucks pushing their
weight around get right on my bumper, so close that from the driver's
height they can't possibly see my signal lights. They wait
impatiently for me to move aside so they can get on down the road to
threaten the next law abiding citizen that gets in their way.
It isn't just big trucks of course. Even an MG can harbor a big road bully, and it isn't just men either. Women get in on the act with impatient gestures and blaring horns just as threatening as the burliest truck driver. Now I want to make it clear that my foot has as many muscles in it as the the driver in the next vehicle. I can drive 140 safely if my wife is having a heart attack, or one of my children is in danger. I can skid around corners with the best of them. Out in the country -- or out in the roadless desert -- I usually top the hills fast enough for my wheels to leave the ground. On gravel roads where I am not endangering the lives of others I will swap directions from east to west or from north to south just to hear my tires squall. When I was out on a race track the only thing I was looking for was the winner's flag and the people out there with me were there at their own risk because I fully intended to win. But none of that behavior is present in me when I am on the highway where there are speed limits posted. |
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Well-meaning passengers have assured me I am clearly in the wrong for only driving the speed limit in the real world. They have insisted that I not only have the right, but the obligation to drive "with the flow". Well, in Los Angeles the flow can put you in a traffic jam doing 110. In Oklahoma City that flow hits 100 miles an hour more than occasionally. In Little Rock I have repeatedly been locked into swarms going 80 and 90. "Yes, but when you insist on driving only the speed limit you can cause accidents."
That is my point exactly. Speeders are not law-abiding citizens; their rush comes from breaking the law. Even if the speed limits were raised to 100 MPH they would be pushing for 130 and some of them would be thumbing their noses as they exceed 150. Being nice to them by moving off the road to let them pass, being nice to them by letting them shove my speed ever upwards to keep from being rear-ended, is not the right thing to do. That is exactly the same thing as knuckling under to any other kind of bully on this planet. In towns, or out on the open road, there is always someone pushing, threatening, bullying to get me to to break the speed limit. I have accepted the guilt over the years of being a law-abiding citizen. I have moved aside as quickly as the opportunity presented itself so that the bullies of the road can speed on past. Yesterday morning it came to me that I was NOT the one at fault here. I was in a 25 MPH zone with kids ahead wanting to cross over into the school yard and someone nudging me from behind to do 40. I have every right in the world to only drive the speed limit and not a nickel more. I have a right to come to a full and complete stop at the STOP signs without someone blowing their horn behind me. I have a right to use my turn signals when I am about to make a turn and expect the people behind me to slow down to let me get off the road safely when I make that turn. Sure that attitude is dangerous, and may even get me killed but I'm sticking to it from now on. |
Here's the way I see it:I have went to the polling booth and cast my vote for the candidates I felt would represent the best interests of this Nation. These people have set the speed limits. They have designated the traffic laws. If I choose to let some bully shove me into disobeying the law then I am telling the whole world my vote was nothing more than an act of hypocrisy. Well, no more. No more moving aside. No more guilt for not breaking the law. Bullies be damned! From now on I'm driving the speed limit and not a nickel more. You can put it on my tombstone. |
The End
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