Did you not understand what I said? Let me try and explain better. I'm not asking you to go faster. I don't care how slow you go. But I want to go faster myself. And I can't do that if I'm stuck behind you. PLEASE just MOVE OVER to the roadside briefly and LET ME GO BY YOU. Then you can continue driving slow and I can drive faster. It seems like you're upset that I want to go faster than you and you want to force me to drive at your slow speed. If you do that, then I'll continue driving up your ass. I'm not trying to be an asshole. I want us both to drive at the speed we feel comfortable with. But for as long as I'm stuck behind you, we can't both do that. Only you can. I would like you to work with me and resolve the issue for both of us. So next time somebody comes up behind you and appears to be too close behind you, just pull over and let him go by! Problem solved. Thank you!
Ahaha, nicely put. This is why I now
do pull over if someone is relentlessly riding my bumper.
When I come to a stop light, I approach the vehicle in front of me and stop before I hit them. Why do you care how close I am to you so long as I don't make any physical contact? Are you planning on getting out and crossing the street between our vehicles?
No, but suppose you get rear-ended: You're going right into me no matter how hard your foot's on the brake. And if you speed up slightly faster than I do from the stop, you're going right into me.
Not only that, but say you're inches from my bumper and the driver behind you is inches from yours. My car suddenly stalls and won't restart--How do you suppose you're getting around me? You're not, until the person behind you moves, and quite possibly the person behind him, and so on and so forth.

Had you left just a tiiiny bit more room, you could've
easily went around my jalopy.
When the light DOES change, it will only stay green for a predefined length of time. And we only have that much time to pass through the intersection. The faster you move through the intersection, the faster I can move through and the more vehicles will pass through before the light turns again and vehicles must stop. I'm close to the vehicle in front of me so I can be prepared to move through the intersection quickly. I'm trying to be courteous of the vehicles behind me so they can get through the intersection too. You may not have any place to go or have all the time in the world to drive around, but the rest of us are going someplace and our time is limited.
Do seconds really make that much of a difference in your morning commute? I know for mine, whether I do 49MPH on a route I take, or whether I do 42MPH ('cause I'm stuck behind someone going slower than me

), I still get to my destination in 35 minutes. Sometimes 36 or 37, but in the long run, do those two minutes
really make that big of an impact on your day? You should leave yourself more time in the morning to get where you need to go instead of riding my ass while driving / at the intersection.
Everyone is so obsessed with time. What is time? It is nothing but a man-made concept that fits in wonderfully with the lifestyle nowadays that one could describe as being part of "the rat race." Fuck the clock: You'll get there when you get there.
(For the record, I am not one of those people who are habitually late. Quite the contrary: I am normally a couple minutes early--It's rare that I am "on time."
"To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is to be in deep shit" was the motto I grew up hearing, lol.)