today's vocabulary word:Velocity Mimic:
You know how, sometimes when you're driving down an interstate, you approach a car going slower than you. You catch up with it, change lanes to go around it, get right up to about where its blind spot is, and progress stops - you are no longer passing it. You speed up a little, they speed up a little. You speed up a little more, so do they. Pretty soon you're going faster than you would like to, so you slow down. So do they. Eventually, after a bit of this game, you get become irritated enough to stomp on the gas, zoom up to 10 or even 20 mph faster than you were originally going, and you pass them. Within a mile after that, the car has dropped way behind you, back to its original speed of 5 mph slower than you were going in the first place.
That is a Velocity Mimic
3 comments:
No, that's an asshat.
I agree that asshat is another, equally valid, name. I always wonder what those guys are up to.
They are asshats, but asshattery is so prevelent in so many different areas that I needed a term to describe this one particular type of asshat. Hence, "velocity mimic".
I used to love to drive, but I find it more and more wearying. I try like hell to avoid four-lane roads anymore.
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