The last one isn't the slow one

Sometimes, in traffic, you will naturally start classifying people as

slow or fast. I'm not entirely sure what goes into classifying them,

but you know as well as I do, that you do this. Without going into the

degrees of good-fast versus reckless or good-slow versus

idi-effing-ot, I was thinking about it and I realised that I consider

myself pretty quick through traffic. And for a fair amount of time,

I'm last or nearly last in traffic. Does that describe you too?

I figure that it's because my take-off from the traffic lights and

progress through traffic tends to be on the rapid side, and most of

the time, I catch up with the traffic that's ahead of me. In

traffic/transport planner terms, a group of traffic that leaves

together from a traffic light is called a platoon. Each cycle of

greens causes a platoon. Er, the point is, that I'm usually at the end

of the platoon. Doing what? Passing them, of course. And I'm sure

there's more riders like this out there.

Point? Don't automatically dismiss those at the end of the platoon,

they're probably just taking some time to get ahead. I think this

point has wider meanings that purely in traffic, but that's purely

unintended.