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Live Freely, But Drive Anonymously
You don’t want your fellow drivers to know the first thing about you
Online, I have few secrets. I overshare on Facebook and other social media and you don’t need to read very many of my Medium pieces before you get a pretty good sense of who I am. And I’m OK with that.
On the road? I could be anyone.
You will find zero clues about my political, philosophical or religious beliefs or the makeup of my family. Do I have a dog? Am I more of a First Amendment or Second Amendment sort? Who knows?
People are crazy, and if I’m involved in a traffic accident, I do not want to possibly add to the belligerence of the other driver. You’ll have to make every assumption based on the car I drive, which won’t get you very far.
Others are anxious for you to know who they voted for, what music they listen to, what sports they follow, what pets they have and what religion they believe in. In my town, it’s not very uncommon to see people driving around with a couple of flags (usually some combination of American, Trump, Confederate or the thin blue line bastardization) attached to their pickup truck.
