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This week’s personality profile is:
Mimickers
My car, Freddie, lacks cruise control in his current state (he might be getting an upgrade sometime within the year). As such, I occasionally fluctuate in my speed. On some of these long trips, I’ll look down at my speedometer to find that I’m down 5 MPH from the speed that I wanted to be going. Not surprisingly, a car is now behind me. I speed up and the car speeds up. Not really tailgating, but just following kind of close.
10 minutes later, I notice that I’ve slowed down again. This time, I’m going 7 or 8 MPH slower than ideal. The car is still behind me. It’s not like it’s a one-lane road here. There’s a passing lane and no real traffic problem. But the car is still there. I speed up and the car, once again, speeds up. By this point, I’m pretty sure I have a mimicker.
Now here’s the test: If you want to know how if you have a mimicker, go through a phase of slowly speeding up and down, covering a range of 15 or 20 MPH. This is what I usually do. A mimicker will stay close behind you, never passing you and occasionally getting too close.
Basically, these drivers are so lazy that they can only drive by following your bumper. I don’t even really need to send mimickers to mars. They’ll probably just follow some work zone speeder or smoker onto the rocket.
