03. Commuting.

I'm posting this without my travel notes because I left my handy tape recorder in the car, but I think I can remember the main points I'd wanted to make.

There are just a few, because to be honest, driving the speed limit isn't very hard when you're on back roads. I take two state highways to get to my temp job, which never go above 45 mph. For the most part, when the limit is 45, I end up going below the speed limit because other drivers are going slowly. However, when I'm going slowly to match up with a 25 mph limit, I still get tailgated. I think that most people aren't going the speed limit because it's the law. They're mostly driving it because that happens to be where they're comfortable. Most of the time, people go from 35-40 mph, even when it's clearly marked that the limit is 10 mph different in either direction.

I'm finding that I still get easily annoyed with other drivers. Now it's not that they're driving too slowly, but that they're getting too close to my rear bumper. Interesting how perspectives change. Taking a right turn at a crawl, though, will always piss me off.

I haven't had anyone tailgate me too severely so far, though. We'll see if anything more interesting happens, and I promise the next update will be juicier than this one way or another!