Date:         Mon, 5 Apr 2004 02:30:42 -0400
Reply-To:     ian@BLUEMOON.HPLX.NET
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From:         Ian Butler <ian@BLUEMOON.HPLX.NET>
Subject:      Re: I get no respect
Comments: To: Karl Wolz <wolzphoto@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
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>
> Agreed.  In over a half-million miles in three V'gons, I've never had
> the kinds of misadventures descried in the other posts on this subject.
>

I was cruising down a city road one summer .. four-lane affair, semi-major
40mph road in Ann Arbor.  I was going 40 in the left lane, and seeing a
traffic slowdown ahead, I dipped back and got in the right lane, behind a
municipal bus.  Convinced I was the pokey one, a generic American sedan
(Lumina or somesuch) behind me, now in the right lane, switched blindly
into the left lane and zoomed ahead into (literally into -- I heard the
crunch) the rapidly-slowing left lane traffic.  I didn't stop, but I had
to laugh as I saw both drivers pull off to the shoulder through my
rearview.  Her impatience cost her more time than she ever would have
saved by blowing past my chunky old Vanagon like she'd planned..

ian Butler / ian@bluemoon.hplx.net
'88 Audi 5000S quattro
'88 VW Scirocco 16v
'87 VW Vanagon GL syncro (on eBay now)
'77 Mercury Marquis (for sale)