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- From: baldwin@carina.unm.edu (Chris Baldwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Re: Snow And Traffic
- Message-ID: <1k4akcINNmt1@lynx.unm.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:31:56 GMT
- References: <C1GL5K.Jv6@dcs.ed.ac.uk>
- Organization: Atheist for the Development of a Better God
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- In article <C1GL5K.Jv6@dcs.ed.ac.uk> Not_Al_Crawford@ed.ac.uk (Not Al Crawford) writes:
- [Drivers who slow down for snow, even though the roads are clear]
-
- While these people are annoying, there is a worse breed out here.
- These are the people who refuse to slow down, no matter how bad the roads
- get. For instance, last month we had a pretty good winter storm and the
- roads were covered with ice. So, on the way home, I was cruising along
- at a nice 20 mph, because any faster and my truck refused to stop when
- I wanted to break. Most of the rest of the folks were doing about the same,
- as all we wanted was to get home and have a nice, big mug o' hot chocolate.
- Suddenly, Speed Racer cuts right in front of me, speeds up, cuts in front
- of the guy in the other lane, passes the guy in front of me, cuts in front
- of him and proceeds to skid off of the road and flip his car on the median.
-
- The advantage to these people, I guess, is that you don't need
- the helicopter gunships to take care of them. They are often a self
- limiting problem. The helicopters with the electromagnets are a good
- idea for these people, however.
-
- ObPeeve: Last year, I peeved about the fact that the City of Albuquerque
- had decided to close my street between 6 and 9 times for construction.
- However, I was always able to get home, since they were only closing
- a section near my house, but it was still annoying going through all
- of the detours. Now, they have gone too far. They have now decided that
- ripping up a section of street 6+ times is plenty and they have moved
- down the street a bit. Now they are right in from of my house. Thus,
- I am no longer allowed to drive home. Now, I get to walk about a
- block to get there(This is not the peeve. I can handle walking a
- whole block. The peevesome bit is them closing the street.). And to
- make matters worse, this morning at 7:15am, they decided that this
- was the time to get the really big piece of equipment that rips up
- the pavement and beeps a lot and rip up the piece of pavement right
- outside of my bedroom window.
-
- UnrelatedNote: Dan 'talk'ed at me last night complaining that I had
- defamed his character. So, I guess he, at least, is still among the
- living.
-
- >Next Week: Instant Traffic Jam Clearance Using Low-Yield Tactical Nukes
- At least a tactical nuke would get the snow and ice off of the roads.
-
- --
-
- "My essential point is that the First Amendment does more for men
- than it does for women by protecting speech that supports patrimony"
- -- Law Prof. Mary Becker, U of Chicago Law School
-