The people who made my truck invented something cool. It's called a manual transmission. What's cool is that due to the weird behaviors of physics, I get something called "rollback" when I'm stopped facing up a hill.
Between that and the decent amount of torque the engine puts out, it gives me a change to have a little fun.
Some people think that they need to stop less than a foot behind the person in from of them. Normally this is fine. However, doing so behind someone with a manual transmission while facing up a hill is considered rude.
If your vehicle's bumper is slightly shorter than mine, changes are I'm not going to care overly much if my trailer hitch comes to rest on your hood.
If your vehicle's bumper is as high as mine, I will probably just roll back until I see your eyes get wide, then dump the clutch and watch you jump from the noise.
Yeah, it's mean, but I don't know that I'm sorry. See, if there was enough space for me to start normally without having to worry about hitting your car, I wouldn't care. If there's not enough space, then I probably still wouldn't care.
(As a side note, when I drove a vehicle with a paintjob I didn't care about, it was not uncommon for me to slide back and simply rest on the person behind me. If you're going to give me six inches in which to combat rollback in the mountains, you're probably going to end up helping me whether you want to or not.)
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