🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: dc.driving
Article #794

Re: Last minute lane changers

#794
From: Joel Garry
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 00:00
58 lines
3811 bytes
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 19:39:50 -0700, Galaxie Starliner <galaxie@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, Joel Garry wrote:
>
>:)>On Sat, 11 Jul 1998 16:10:43 GMT, Matthew T. Russotto <russotto@wanda.pond.com> wrote:
>:)>>In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710211251.26154A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>,
>:)>>Galaxie 500 XL  <galaxie@speakeasy.org> wrote:
>:)>>};*}}So for those of you waiting until the last second, what are you driving
>:)>>};*}}and do you have any idea what it does to traffic behind you.
>:)>>};*}}
>:)>>};*}}For the record, if at the last second, I realize that I'm in the wrong
>:)>>};*}}lane, that's what the next exit is for.
>:)>>};*}
>:)>>};*}"Next exit 53 miles".
>:)>>}
>:)>>}You're at 50th street the next exit is 65th, you cut over anyway, you're
>:)>>}rude.
>:)>>
>:)>>That's an awful big city if 15 blocks is 53 miles.  Sounds like
>:)>>something out of Johnathan Swift.  I'll be rude rather than travel 106
>:)>>miles out of my way.  (although in practice, if actually missed the exit I'd
>:)>>just look for a "No U-turn sign" and disobey it)
>:)>
>:)>If you miss the exit from 5 on either end of Camp Pendleton it's 18 miles, and
>:)>there's anti-migrant fencing in the middle of the freeway.
>:)>
>
>Well then perhaps it would be a better idea to pay attention to where
>you're going rather than how fast you're goin.

Best to pay attention to all appropriate variables.  Lot's o' chippies 
their, plus border patrol with radios.

Traffic often goes 80+, though.  Go figure.

>
>Galaxie
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>"No matter where you go, there you are."             *              +
>   .              +                         __..              .     :
>      *                               .---'-----`---...__    
>                     _===============================         -
>,----------------._/'      `---..._______...---'           * +
>(_______________||_) . .  ,--'
>    /    /.---'         `/             *                         
>   '--------_- - - - - _/
>             `--------'
>"I don't believe you realize the gravity of the situation."         +
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>


-- 
These opinions are my own and not necessarily those of Information Quest or 
Pebble In The Sky http://www.informationquest.com mailto:jgarry@nospameiq.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/joel_garry   Remove nospam to reply.  
mailto:joel_garry@compuserve.nospam.com  "See your DBA?"  I AM the @#%*& DBA! 
Technical Details
Message-ID: <slrn6qt0sl.ch4.joelga@pebble.org>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail
References: <359A38D7.E8D0624@jump.nospam.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710151836.11460C-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> <zNzp1.1261$pc.1368972@newsread.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710211251.26154A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> <78Mp1.91$Dh.275940@newsread.com> <slrn6ql4bn.2o4.joelga@pebble.org> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980715193844.26133F-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 1038e3,a813ba40692ae7c2
X-Google-Attributes: gid1038e3,public
X-Google-Thread: f4d80,a813ba40692ae7c2
X-Google-Attributes: gidf4d80,public
X-Google-Thread: 1011e5,a813ba40692ae7c2
X-Google-Attributes: gid1011e5,public
X-Google-Thread: 10001a,a813ba40692ae7c2
X-Google-Attributes: gid10001a,public
X-Google-Thread: 10e16d,a813ba40692ae7c2
X-Google-Attributes: gid10e16d,public
From: joelga@pebble.org (Joel Garry)
Subject: Re: Last minute lane changers
Date: 1998/07/16
Message-ID: <slrn6qt0sl.ch4.joelga@pebble.org>
X-Deja-AN: 372176868
References: <359A38D7.E8D0624@jump.nospam.net> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710151836.11460C-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> <zNzp1.1261$pc.1368972@newsread.com> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980710211251.26154A-100000@eve.speakeasy.org> <78Mp1.91$Dh.275940@newsread.com> <slrn6ql4bn.2o4.joelga@pebble.org> <Pine.SUN.3.96.980715193844.26133F-100000@eve.speakeasy.org>
Organization: Natural Surrealist Light Peoples Party High Speed Transport Division
Reply-To: joelga@nospam.pebble.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:49:14 PDT
Newsgroups: dc.driving,rec.autos.driving,misc.legal,alt.law-enforcement,ca.driving