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Old 06-22-2005, 08:16 PM
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Default Things that didn't use to bug me...

... but now they do.

Since I have become concerned with keeping my mileage up, a number of behaviors in other drivers, and in civil engineering in general, that did not use to bother me at all, now do. Things like:

- people that slow way, way down before turning right, causing me to lose that precious momentum

- traffic light creepers, who stop a couple car lengths behind the car in front, and then slowly creep forward, causing my autostop to disengage

- toll booths and fast food drive-through lanes, for the same reason

- stupid traffic lights that change my green light to red, because somebody coming from the intersecting light arrives ever so slightly before I do. (The way I see it, if the other guy gets the green light, both of us are going to have to stop anyway. So you are guaranteed of having us both stop. If the person with the existing red light had maybe a 5 second delay before causing the light to change, then those 50-50 situations would favor the green light person, thus saving gas mileage.)

- traffic lights in the middle of the incline of a hill. Going either way, up or down, its an absolute killer.

I'm sure there are plenty of others... :-/

Last edited by coyote : 06-22-2005 at 08:26 PM.
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