{"id":126,"date":"2018-11-02T08:42:32","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T07:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/?p=126"},"modified":"2022-05-20T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-20T08:30:01","slug":"13-road-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/13-road-rage\/","title":{"rendered":"13. Road Rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s scary as hell being behind someone who\u2019s driving at 40 km\/h onto a motorway (the E16) where everyone else is doing 100 km\/h or more. I really don\u2019t get it. They\u2019re probably sweating as they creep out into the faster traffic and at the same time they\u2019re forcing everybody following to drive that slowly too. And if the slow driver manages to slide out into traffic safely there\u2019s no guarantee that the cars behind can do that. At times like this I feel most at risk when driving. Luckily most people know how to drive, but it\u2019s surprising how often I get stuck behind someone who can\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philipjetheridge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Catatonia-Road-Rage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-129\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday I was behind a car that slowed down to 60 km\/h before driving OFF the same motorway, forcing me to slow down to that speed, as I was taking the same exit and there wasn\u2019t time to pass. That also put my blood-pressure into an upward curve as I had a heavy truck behind me, coming up fast. Truckers don\u2019t want to brake unless they need to stop as it wastes time and fuel getting back up to cruising speed, especially if they\u2019re on a long trip. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I left the motorway, the truck was only three meters behind me. Of course, if I\u2019d slowed any more, he would have braked, but I still felt that twitch of nervousness. So that got me swearing, but as I was on my own, I didn\u2019t disturb anybody. It\u2019s as if some people are in a world of their own when they\u2019re driving and completely unaware of what\u2019s going on around them.  People who don\u2019t feel comfortable using a motorway, or don\u2019t know how to drive on one, should use a side road. Or go to a driving school and learn how to drive a car.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s scary as hell being behind someone who\u2019s driving at 40 km\/h onto a motorway (the E16) where everyone else is doing 100 km\/h or more. I really don\u2019t get it. They\u2019re probably sweating as they creep out into the faster traffic and at the same time they\u2019re forcing everybody following to drive that slowly &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/2018\/11\/02\/13-road-rage\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;13. Road Rage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philipjetheridge.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}