Growing up, we always said that Massachusetts drivers were the worst. Drivers from Quebec on their way to Florida were also notorious. It may be common for one area to blame another for road problems. It did used to be sports cars and muscle cars which were a nuisance on the highway. But these days it seems to be large, empty, luxury pickups. Pickups used to be a workers care, used to haul tools or materials around. Now the trailer hitches suggest that they are used more often to haul boats or skimobiles. The beds look pretty undamaged.
The speed and even the calculated suddenness of noise I don't mind so much. Tailgating is another matter particularly when the headlights are elevated up into your rearview. I think the communication of tailgating has changed slightly from anger at getting you to go faster to an entitlement that they are signalling that they want to pass. This rapidly escalates to anger when it is not obeyed, but it seems almost nonchalant at first. Of course I own the road. I'm bigger than you.
On my way to Quebec City it confirmed again that the it is now the New Hampshire drivers who are worse. Things were better in Vermont, even in North East Kingdom, and better still in the Province of Quebec. On my way home it wasn't far beyond the Connecticut River that I saw the familiar bad behavior of my fellow Granite Staters again.
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