Date: Mon, 5 Apr 2004 11:55:10 -0400
Reply-To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject: Re: I get no respect
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Hmm, sounds like an experience I once had with a goat in the road in Niamey
(capital of Niger, which you might have heard of by now in connection with
false information about WMDs?). I was driving up a hill downtown - the one
hill downtown - in the left lane, car behind me. A goat started crossing
the road from left to right. (That's a normal thing to happen in downtown
Niamey - we're not talking a major metropolis here. Lucky it wasn't a
camel, really, they are a lot bigger.) I hit the brakes so as not to hit
the goat. The guy behind me got pissed off of course - "idiot ferrinor
white lady, slowing down!" (well, okay, I'm putting words in his mind, he
didn't say that) He shifts right, then slams on his brakes like all get-out
to avoid the goat, which of course he couldn't see 'cause I was in the way.
He didn't hit it, fortunately. Makes people really mad when you hit their
goats with your car.
Uh, vanagon content? Well, I'm sure there was some! No vanagons in Niger,
alas.
Joy (now safely with Matilda in Norfolk VA... still trying to get my Optima
connected, but thanks to John in Va Beach who moved the project along a few
steps!)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM]On Behalf
> Of Ian Butler
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 2:31 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Re: I get no respect
>
>
> >
> > 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)
>
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