🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <isisCoo7JB.HrD@netcom.com>, isis@netcom.com (Mike Cohen) writes:
|> dblpmrm@mayan.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Mark R. Miller) writes:
|> 
|> >I've been trying to calmly read through this thread but I can't go on without
|> >responding to this second Cohen posting.  I'm a Southern California native
|> >(of 50 years).  My Parents grew up here too.  My father (who grew up in Downey)
|> >was in 4-H and FFA.  I grew up among orange trees.  People were friendly, courteous,
|> >and helpful.  We never locked our car or house.  California drivers had a nation-
|> >wide reputation for being some of the best and most courteous drivers.  Then came
|> >the "foreigners".  People like you have turned paradise into hell.  What you think of
|> >as "native" Californians are really transplants like yourself.  Thanks to you and
|> >people like you I now live in an overcrowded, hostile, aggressive, abusive community
|> >...just like New York.
|> 
|> Well, I'm finally getting my wish and moving back there. Here, if I tell 
|> someone I don't drive, they look at me like I have 3 eyes or something. There,
|> not driving is considered normal. I'll be so happy being able to get anywhere
|> at any time rather than being trapped at home by the lack of public transit
|> (I was just as crippled when I did drive since I was afraid to drive on
|> freeways, alone, or for long distances).
|> 
|> -- 
|> Mike Cohen - isis@netcom.com
|> NewtonMail, eWorld: MikeC / ALink: D6734 / AOL: MikeC20

It looks like we're both getting our wish.

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