Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat From: wombat@uicsl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: My last word too T.C. - (nf) Message-ID: <5474@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 22:42:48 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.5474 Posted: Wed Feb 8 22:42:48 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Feb-84 06:21:42 EST Lines: 22 #R:hou2g:-15800:uicsl:4300143:000:1033 uicsl!wombat Feb 8 15:20:00 1984 AN wants to know why not everybody recognizes his "flashing headlight" signal. Well, I, for one, had never heard of it till he brought it up. Where I come from, if an approaching driver had their lights on it meant troopers ahead. If somebody behind you was doing weird things to attract your attention it meant you were driving at night with no lights, or your bumper was falling off, or ..., and the driver behind you was just trying to tell you about it. Myself, I go about 57mph in the right lane, except on the rare occasions when I catch up with someone going slower than I am; then I use the left lane to pass. For you clowns who drive 70-90, it takes a lot longer to safely pass a car going only 5mph less than you are than to pass one going 20-30mph less. Consequently, a 58 car passing a 54 car will take enough time for a 75 car to come roaring up out of nowhere demanding to be let through, and sitting on your bumper until you move right. Wombat wombats got no cute quotes ihnp4!uiucdcs!uicsl!wombat