There's a four way intersection a couple hundred feet up the road from my house that has a pretty bad reputation for being a meeting place of every possible kind of idiot. One of the roads that's part of the intersection ends at a sharp, nearly blind curve. In going on 21 years of living at my house I've been lucky enough to not see or be involved with any stupid antics from other drivers. Sadly that came to an end minutes ago, but thankfully I wasn't at fault for any of it or directly involved in it.
The speed limit was 45 which is what I was going, but someone had been riding my tail for the past 10 miles. Over the 10 miles I gradually slowed to 35 to try to let the guy know that riding my ass wasn't going to get him anywhere. As soon as I stopped at the intersection he blared his horn as another car was pulling up to the left. I was there first but I let the car to the left go first to again try the let the guy behind me know that his impatience would be getting himself nowhere. As soon as the car to the left pulled out, the guy behind me swung around me and sped off through the intersection, narrowly missing the car that I let go. I could see him flipping me off but all I did was brush it off. As I started to pull out of the intersection myself, I saw the Kia driver out of the corner of my eye almost sideswipe an old Century that was just pulling up and almost drive right into a mailbox and fence in someone's front yard.
Perhaps I am partially at blame for slowing the Kia guy down even more than I already was, but then again I was the one that was following the law and not riding someone else's for miles on end. Not to mention that I was in absolutely no hurry whatsoever. That's the way I am, if someone's riding my tail I'm going to very gradually decrease my speed by five miles an hour. The person behind is most likely going to pass me or back off at some point anyway.