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Old 08-14-2006, 01:35 PM
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Don S
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Northern CA
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The simplest place to start dealing with LFT is when you are driving. Remember this mnemonic:
FIDO.
Forget
It
Drive
On

Take responsibility only for your own driving. While it is important to be a defensive driver, you don't need to be a reactive driver. This means that you don't need to
--flip off other drivers
--yell at them
--honk at them
--slow down if they are tailgating you
--speed up and cut them off
...or in any other way interact with them except to drive safely near them. If you are doing those things, you are paying attention to their driving, not yours. We all have preferences about how others 'should' drive--slower, faster, not in front of us, not so closely behind us. But it isn't necessary to express those preferences.

In other words, let it go, shine it on, be mellow, don't worry about how they are driving. Forget It. Drive On.

(from a training course for safe driving for senior citizens)
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