Are you practicing what your bumper sticker preaches?

So there I was a couple Friday mornings ago, driving along Government Way in Spokane heading to work.

A dark gray Subaru wagon-type car had been dogging my rear ever since I turned onto the road off Fort George Wright Way, heading past the cemeteries. Even though I was going 40 miles per hour in a 35 mph zone, apparently I wasn’t going fast enough for the driver.

When I finally got to the point where Government Way becomes two lanes, at the turnoff towards Indian Canyon, I pulled into the right hand lane to let the car go by, and sure enough, she — it was a woman — went flying past. Going thro...