Is there anything quite as righteously, exultantly, fiercely joyful as seeing some idiot who blew past you at high speed on the freeway, swerving in and out of traffic, leaving brake lights and shaken drivers behind him, pulled over to the frickin’ side of the freeway by the highway patrol?<\/i><\/p>\n
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