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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
A different question:
If you’d known for a fact that the guy had just been called to the hospital following a family member’s tragic accident...would you have behaved any differently?
That should always be our assumption when in that situation. It can be your motivation to effectively and unemotionally get out of the way without prompting anger. If it turns out the guy was just an ass...the end result is the same...no altercation.
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A legitimate question. Let's remember how I "behaved", though. He was crawling up my bumper, so I gave him what I believed to be (re-evaluating that, see above) the universal "back off" signal - a quick flash of my brake lights. That's it, that's all.
To answer your question, yes - even if I knew he was rushing to the hospital, I would have sent the same signal. In that case, with the intent of trying to communicate "hey buddy, if you hope to make it there at all, you might want to calm it down a bit". Remember - I had nowhere to go. No way to get out of his way and let him through. I was sandwiched between two other cars. I could not change lanes, and I certainly could not speed up sufficiently in my '93 Land Cruiser to outpace the two cars next to me and let him through.
From that point on his behavior made it
abundantly clear that he was experiencing no such emergency. Like I've said several times already, he was free and clear, on his way, clear sailing ahead. And, again as I have stated several times, I never did a thing to hinder his progress. Held my lane, held my speed.
So, yeah - I would not have done anything differently, because I was essentially
unable to do anything to help him.