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Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising

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From: Jeffrey W. Janner
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:00
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In article <4lm7vf$7tn@newsgate.sps.mot.com>, Gordon Gunn
<ggunn@aton.sps.mot.com> wrote:

} In article <4leung$57j@dfw-ixnews6.ix.netcom.com> Nestor J.
} Presas, nestor3@ix.netcom.com writes:
} > With most of the state flaming about driving conditions in
} >Austin,(and with good reason) this is the third Austinite, that felt it
} >was his duty to defend the city of his peers. And he is asking US to
} >develop a little tolerance!
} 
} Just for the record, I was not defending Austin, or any place,
} for that matter.   There are good and bad drivers everywhere. 
} I've lived and drived in a *lot* of other places, and, on the
} whole, Austin is no better or worse than any of them.  Think
} about it, what attribute of a section of the populace (i.e.,
} "bad" drivers) would cause them to accumulate in any particular
} locale?
} 
} What I mean by "tolerance" is a resistance of the impulse to
} try to impose one's driving style (good or bad) on others by
} tailgating, flashing lights at, flipping off, honking at,
} screaming at, swearing at, et al the"offending" party (and if
} they "get away", on whomever is available).  I don't give a
} flying (expletive, deleted) *what* city you're in.
} 

Well, this seems to be the general driving "style" in Austin.  That's
whgat makes it such a fun place to drive!

-- 
Jeff Janner  |  jwjanner@tamu.edu
"Read a Book!" -- Handy
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From: jwjanner@tamu.edu (Jeffrey W. Janner)
Subject: Re: Why speed limits in Texas are rising
Date: 1996/04/26
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