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Article #13111Re: Daily gripe: Shoppers and rush hour
From: Walt Horning
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:00
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Tony Wang <tonyw44@prodigy.net> wrote: >Oh, so let me see here, Walt. I shouldn't stop at the grocery store, or >the pet store, or the sporting goods store, or whatever on my way home >from work, because it might slow you down? Instead, I should go home, >wait until rush hour is over, and then go out again. Quick to critique, slow to read. Re-read the second line of number one (1) below: > >Sure. > >Walt Horning wrote: > >> Washington Post ran an article recently. It stated that during rush >> hour most of the traffic jams on secondary roads are, get this, due to >> people running errands. >> >> (1) Its stupid to shop and make commuting even more hellish for >> others, unless you are a commuter on the way home or to work. >> >> (2) It is stupid to shop during rush hour and eat up more of your time >> stuck in rush hour traffic.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,288b05293d117eb9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public From: whorning@pipeline.com (Walt Horning) Subject: Re: Daily gripe: Shoppers and rush hour Date: 1999/02/04 Message-ID: <36bd2f07.720182@news.pipeline.com> X-Deja-AN: 440782042 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <36b31f79.58023125@news.pipeline.com> <36B940E3.363E4072@prodigy.net> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises, Inc. X-Server-Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:28:03 GMT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: whorning@pipeline.com Newsgroups: dc.driving