Re: driving in snow (or other low traction conditions)

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From: Mark Crispin
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:24

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David Barts writes:
> so many of the Texas drivers had about driving on snow in NM (the
> very same Texans who ten demonstrated their utter incompetence at
> negotiating an icy, banked hairpin curve and ended up 30 feet down
> a road embankment)

Interesting.  The last time I was in Albuquerque/Santa Fe, the car I rented
had Texas license plates.  It was winter, there was lots of snow & ice on the
roads, and I got to hear lots of tiresome lectures about how ``you Texas don't
know how to drive on ice.''

Bigots is bigots.

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