Is that how it works?

Somebody should have told me sooner! Been driving for years now and only recently found out that apparently road rules are voluntary! Who would have thought!? Been doing it wrong all this time...

People on the road shit me to tears. I will for now skip over ranting about mobile phones, indicating (lack of) and tailgating. I want to rant about something I see every single day...

If you are sitting up my arse on the highway (or any road for that matter) then you will be in for a long (according to you) drive. Not only do I actually do the legal speed limit (you know those signs on the side of the road, the white ones with black numbers in a red circle? Yeah, that is the LEGAL SPEED LIMIT), but if you ride my arse and assume I will speed then you are mistaken. Not only will I not speed, I will slow down by 2-5 k's just to piss you off. And yeah, it makes me feel great.

You know why it makes me feel great? Because people like you (the one riding my arse) are the ones that cause accidents. Those advertisements on TV that say 'Every K Over Is A Killer', the front page of the newspaper before xmas with the little 2 month old baby that died in a speeding accident; I actually pay attention to those things. I realise my actions on the road affect other people, not just me. My 4 minutes that I would save by speeding and getting shitty at people that do the speed limit is not worth that babies life. It is not worth my life. Do you realise that as well?

Do you have to cause an accident before you slow down? If you are lucky then your accident will only affect you. However, there is a good chance it will affect other people too. The 2 month old baby, the mum raising 3 kids on her own, the fire-fighter that works at the orphanage on his weekends, the promising UNI student that could go on to do wondrous things in the medical industry... all these people are possible victims because of your carelessness and yes, in my eyes, your stupidity.

I wish I could be told I am 'over-reacting', that people don't speed as much as what I presume they do. But I would laugh if someone said that to me. I drive the Ipswich motorway every workday, I drive down that highway at 11:30 at night and then again at 10:30 in the morning, and you know what? Every single vehicle passes me. EVERY SINGLY ONE. Not a single car sits on the speed limit with me... Cars, motorbikes, trucks, vans, every one of them passes me by like I'm the turtle in a rabbit race. It is absolutely disgusting. I spend my whole drive to and from work shaking my head because apparently no-one cares that there is a legal speed limit that should be adhered to. Apparently the speed limit is something that can be ignored, it doesn't really matter, it's only something idiots stick to.

Well I will be that 'idiot' that sticks to the speed limit. And I will not be the person to cause an accident because of my speed and risk taking. I just hope that one day, I am not the victim of someone else's need to speed.