"Morgans" wrote in
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"Skywise" wrote

You seem to be in the same vein as Morgans, and not
listening to what I am saying. I do what I do because of
what others do on the road.

It seems that you did not listen to my post, where I suggested how to
drive safely; more safely than doing what you are doing, and staying in
the pack of traffic. They are like blockers on a
"student-body-up-the-middle" football play.

And you are not listening to me. I have found it to be more
dangerous at times to remain in a block of traffic than to
be on my own between blocks of traffic.

I am well aware of the fact that people pulling out of driveways
and such may have a hard time seeing me. Actually, it doesn't
matter. I presume they won't see me no matter what - which has
been demonstrated numerous times. So I take precautions in that
vein as well. One thing I do is to not ride in the right lanes
until I need to for a turn, etc... I also look quite far down
the road, much further than most drivers it seems. Often times
I am braking for something I see up ahead while as many as
several cars ahead of me are still blissfully driving along.

This reminds me, there's been times where I'll be in the back
of a block of traffic, and see nothing coming up behind me. I
often am happy to stay back where I can keep all the idiots in
easy sight in front of me.

Like I've tried to say before, I don't do this stuff ignorantly.
There have been times where I've felt that I can't pay enough
attention (tired, distracted, etc...) so I revert back to so-called
'normal' driving.

But it's always a fluid situation. Something can happen and I
may whitelien for a coupel lights to get away from some obvious
bad drivers, then got back to "kicking back".

I still can't shake this feeling that you have this impression
that I drive like a "madman" all the time, every time. It's
simply not true. I do what the situation warrants and conditions
permit.

Brian
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