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From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray)
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Subject: Re: Fast Driving Not The Cause
Message-ID: <562@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 21:02:09 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb  9 21:02:09 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:20:20 EST
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Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma.
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Now wait a minute: what makes you think these turkeys look at all before
pulling out in front of someone? I don't think they do, especially the
nice slow 'safe driver' kinds which most of them seem to be. It is invariably
the turkeys who pull out right in front of one, taxing one's admittedly
superior skill, reflexes and brakes as one quickly avoids running into them,
who then proceed to do the speed limit on the nose, or perhaps a few miles
under for good measure, no doubt congratulating themselves on their nice
safe driving (safe=slow in the primitive turkey mind) as a line of twenty
or thirty cars builds up behind them containing more usual types of drivers,
the sort who often do around 62 or 65 or whatever the actual average is,
who make at least cursory use of windows and mirrors, and have at least
the rudiments of politeness so clearly lacking in the mental defective leading
this lugubrious army at a speed appropriate to the funeral procession which
it by now resembles, as the turkey no doubt ruminates about being a taxpayer
and it being their right to block traffic if they so desire, while visions
of homicide dance in the minds of the frustrated and by now quite late
commuters behind... Let's face it: we're talking 'unsafe at any speed'.

--Jim Bray (decvax!bbncca!jbray)