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- From: parr@acs.ucalgary.ca (Charles Parr)
- Subject: Re: BDIVOs in general
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 21:37:03 GMT
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- In article <92324.101521SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> Sonja Kueppers <SEK@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
- >Peeve: People who assume that the fact that I'm blocking the fast lane
- >is related in any way to a self-righteous attitude.
- >
- >I'm actually blocking the fast lane because I got my license 2.5 weeks
- >ago, and am valiantly attempting to improve my driving by, *gasp*, driving.
- >My abject terror, however, prevents me from changing lanes very often,
- >because I'm scared that I'm going to hit someone. Therefore, I tend to
- >get into the lane that I want to be turning out of as early as possible.
- >Thus, I end up driving at the speed limit or slightly above in the fast
- >lane. (Luckily for the other drivers, I am usually not driving
- >very far in any case, thus preventing them from getting really
- >angry with me for more than 5 minutes.)
-
- The things they say about psu posters are true, aren't they?
- Or are you telneting from Dalhousie?
-
- If you don't have any confidence in lane changing or highway
- driving, you have (apologies to those already equipped with
- clues and functioning neurons, for the shouting) NO
- BUSINESS BEING ON THE ROAD.
-
- The road, and it peeves me to have to actually explain
- what should be painfully obvious, is not your personal
- playground. People get hurt out there, Sonja, and the
- accident you cause might just kill someone who's
- only "fault" was being on the road with you.
-
- This pathetic 'excuse' for your behaviour is one
- more indication of just how badly we need those
- upgradings in the licensing standards.
-
- Pfui.
-
- Regards, Charles
- --
- Within the span of the last few weeks I have heard elements of
- separate threads which, in that they have been conjoined in time,
- struck together to form a new chord within my hollow and echoing
- gourd. --Unknown net.person
-