Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!jbray From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: Fast Driving Not The Cause Message-ID: <562@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Thu, 9-Feb-84 21:02:09 EST Article-I.D.: bbncca.562 Posted: Thu Feb 9 21:02:09 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 08:20:20 EST References: erix.244 <289@bunkerb.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 19 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)