A week ago tomorrow I pulled out of the Crystal lot, put it in intermediate, set the speed control to 35 and headed down. At 410 I put it in drive and set the speed control for 57.
About halfway down the boulevard a gray SUV caught up and rode my tail down to the base. On 410 he did the same. Finally he got his opportunity and passed me. Imagine my sense of schadenfreude when 5 minutes later I saw him getting a ticket from the WSP. Bet I beat him home and had a far cheaper ski day!
I choose to drive the speed limit. I am not trying to police anybody else. Just the opposite. I'm not into the police policing me. But I do have a right to drive on the road at the speed limit and no amount of bullying or displays of impatience by skiers behind me is going to change that. Nor do I wish to pull over and then reenter the highway (a potentially dangerous move) only to meet up with the same people down the road. Almost every time I go to Crystal I deal with this. I have seen people doing crazy and very dangerous things on 410.
Aaron said, "Sometimes drivers think they have the right to speed and that anyone who is obeying the limit is obstructing their progress." Totally agree.
