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- From: diana@wetware.com (CatWoman )
- Subject: Re: Mis-used of turn signals & other stuff
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.132837.4555@wetware.com>
- Sender: news@wetware.com (Usenet News Account)
- Organization: Castle WetWare MouseCatcher
- References: <1992Nov19.150938.4997@linus.mitre.org> <1992Nov21.142311.2618@wetware.com>
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 13:28:37 GMT
- Lines: 38
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- Ack! Following up one of my own posts again.
- Rick pointed out I ONCE AGAIN forgot the post-script
- for this.
-
- Peeve: Old age and senility - I'm going to have to
- either write my post-scripts FIRST, or get some
- kind of "check for matching '(*)'" filter...
-
- I wrote:
-
- ] Back before the concept of "mantra" was popular, I
- ] had a driving instructor in highschool who had a
- ] "mantra" - it's one of the two things I remember
- ] from the class(*). His mantra was:
-
- (*) The other thing I remember was almost having
- the car full of us killed when one of the kids
- did NOT check both ways at a stopsign.
-
- Actually - these two things were the only things
- I remember from actually driving. The teacher was
- known as "Seymore" - as in "See More Movies" - and
- I remember seeing ALL the bad ones - "Red Asphalt",
- etc...
-
- But for actual driving - my dad got me private lessons
- a few years later - I made Sonja seem positively
- over-confident, but not WANTING to add to the BDI's,
- I just didn't drive until I was 20 or 21...
-
- ObPeeve: Driver's Ed in high-school, conducted in a
- manner that is SURE to turn out timid and/or bad
- drivers - if you've never driven before, and are
- not confident in yourself ANYway, having the usual
- high-school lack of consideration thrown at you is
- SURE to cause problems.
-
- Diana
-