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Old 03-15-2014, 10:39 AM
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Default Hot heads rarely change

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Originally Posted by Paulz View Post
Last night I had my first encounter with road rage in TV, going through Turtle Mound (south) around 9pm. I was 6 carts back in a traffic jam, going about 16mph. The guy behind took exception to me leaving 4-5 lengths between me and the cart in front so passed me going into a curve at which point I blew my horn. When he got to the ramp at the tunnel going under 466a he slammed on his brakes, lucky I gave him 4-5 length courtesy. I stopped and he waved me around which I proceeded to do very slowly. He then got on my butt screaming as I slowly entered the tunnel. When we got back on the main path i speeded up to 22 and he went by me at 27-28, to sandwich in before the curve at BV, as the caravan was still going 16-17.

In the future I will let them pass, not hit the horn and give them lots of room. Rather have a hot head in front of me than behind.
As mentioned before----"hot head personalities " rarely change after retirement. With around 50,000 golf carts and 100,000 or so people in TV, you are going to have a few "crazy" people.
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