Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 08:28:02 -0500
Reply-To: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: I get no respect
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Going East out of Soldotna, Ak, towards Anchorage, the Sterling Highway
is a two lane road with the first few miles plagued by hills and curves
making passing dangerous if not impossible. So, people fly on the road
instead of drive.
I was tooling along plenty fast -safely fast - for me, but not fast
enough for someone behind me. They kept blowing the horn, and tailgating
me. Up ahead coming out of the bush on the right side I saw a moose
aimed at crossing the road, so I tapped the barkes to slow a bit , and
of course the car behind me passed instantly, and in the process gave me
the one digit expression of their social status, mentality, and
religion, as well as vocalizing the low level of their language skills.
They also expressed their driving skills ......by immediating crashing
into the moose, killin both it and their vehicle. I didn't stop. I saw
they were all ok, as they were out of the car by the time I got up to
them, fighting over the wreck. Had they not been such jerks, it would
not have been so funny. But I found destiny's come - uppance to be funny!!
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Ian Butler wrote:
>>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.
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>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..
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>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)
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