I have, on occasion, talked about
things I see or details I notice when I'm out walking here and there.
Well, today I wanna talk about one of those things I see.
Specifically, I wanna talk about one thing I see all the time--
Acceleratorists.
Pardon the made-up word
“acceleratorist”, but I couldn't think of anything else to
describe the people I see several times a day except
“acceleratorist”. These are the drivers I see speeding up to a
stop sign or a stop light, hammering their brakes before coming to a
complete stop, then flooring it when they start again, continuing the
cycle at the next stop light or stop sign.
“Acceleratorists”. It's what you
get when you have a fetish for accelerator pedal. And that's how I
came up with the word.
Now, I know I'm not a normal person,
especially when it comes to driving, but I don't get what
acceleratorists are doing. Why would I want to speed up to a stop
sign, come to a complete stop, then speed up as fast as possible from
a dead stop, only to come to a complete stop again in a few blocks
when coming to another stop? I'm kind of sure it's not good on your
car, I KNOW for sure it causes you to burn through gas a lot quicker
than a smooth, steady acceleration, and I'm guessing that you save
very few, if any, seconds in your day by doing it.
I just don't get it.
Ever since I've noticed people doing
this, I've tried to see if there's a certain “type” that becomes
an acceleratorist. But much to my surprise, I haven't been able to.
It seems like every demographic subset is represented. I've seen men
do it, I've seen women do it, I've seen people in small cars do it,
and I've seen people in pickup trucks do it. I've seen people do it
in the morning, during the day, and at night. There doesn't seem to
be any defining characteristic to an acceleratorist.
They just seem to be everywhere.
Like I said before, I'm in no position
to judge acceleratorists. I don't drive (much), and I have no idea
why they're doing what they're doing. After all, they may have a
good reason for it. All I know is that, on those rare occasions when
I do drive, I don't drive like that. Of course, that's just me.
You know—the me who see things, and
finds things, while I'm walking everywhere instead of driving.
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