Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 20:56:47 -0600
Reply-To: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
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From: JRodgers <jrodgers113@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: A Note To The Kid In The Cherry Red 'Tuner'
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If you mounted a funnel for your final exhaust you would have blown him
away - as with rocket nozzle exhaust thrust!! LOL!
John
On 3/1/2013 7:18 PM, Loren Busch wrote:
> This is for the young man in the cherry red 'tuner' that was driving about a
> mile of the same road I was driving about half an hour ago. We went
> through five intersections with stop lights. Right? And when you got to
> each of those intersections the light was red. Right? And I pulled up next
> to you after you had been stopped for several seconds. Right? And as the
> light turned green you peeled out and shot down the road only to have to
> slam on the brakes at the next red light. Right? But did you notice that I
> only had to slow down a little and never had to stop for the red light
> because I got there just as the light turned green? You just didn't realize
> (or were to dumb to catch on, whatever applies) that the traffic lights
> along that arterial are sequenced so that if you travel at the speed limit
> they will turn green just before you get there! We started off side by
> side and ended up side by side. So thanks for the entertainment and I was
> glad to travel with you and watch you get worse gas mileage than my '90
> Westy with auto tranny.
> .
>
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