Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:40:05 -0500
Reply-To: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Stan Wilder <wilden1-1@SBCGLOBAL.NET>
Subject: Re: Road rage cause--Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
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You just need to get a good bumper sticker that glows in the dark and shows
up good in the daylight hours too.
"If your windshield is covered with OIL, you're too close".
Or substituted on Wasser boxers to mention the Anti Freeze possibilities.
Stan Wilder
Engine Ceramics
214-352-4931
www.engineceramics.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Rodgers" <inua@CHARTER.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2005 9:42 PM
Subject: Re: Road rage cause--Diesel powered vanagons - Driving Slow
> Adam H. Behle wrote:
> All the road rage is about sevishness and self-centeredness. All for
> one(me) and none for all(you).
>
> In my little backward community one mother shot another mother - and I'm
> not swearing either.
>
> No kidding, two mothers got into a road rage fight and then the cars
> stopped and one pulled a gun a shot the other dead. Both had children.
> Ruined both families for life. What incredible stupidity. And for what?
> Some perceived dissing, some momentary discourtsey, some error???
>
> I try and drive courteously, and safely, and I try and simply ignore the
> jerks on the road, unless they get physical with my vehicle. Then I
> simply yield big time...... it's not worth the trouble to pursue any
> diferenes of opinion, especially playing bumper cars.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> John Rodgers
> 88 GL Driver
>
> >I've been flipped off going 65 in the slow lane and 80 in the fast
lane-it does not seem to matter
> >how fast you are actually going and what lane you are using. My theory
is that my one fingered
> >saluters have a preconcieved notion that Vanagons are slow, whether they
really are or zipping
> >along just fine at 80 with other cars, and therefore feel compelled to
salute when they come
> >across such beasts. At least in San Diego.
> >
> >As for my beast, I have since slowed to 65 tops and use the "drive it
like a diesel" method to help
> >save gas. Went from a supremely crappy 14.7 mpg with AC on to just under
17 mpg in the "slow"
> >lane with a 2.1 WBX with 162,000 miles in mixed city/highway commute.
I'd love to squeak out
> >another MPG or two, but my carpooling friends might mutiny on the Westy.
> >
> >I love these things and the zen-like patience they teach, but I admit to
occaisional bouts of an
> >irritable road rage-esque condition I get when I drive my wife's Volvo T5
and run into less than
> >perfect drivers (not literally running into them though). But this
feeling never results in honking,
> >gunfire, single digit gestures, brawling, knife fights, Greco-roman
wrestling, etc-and is never
> >directed towards drivers of our loaf shaped beasts.
> >
> >Take it easy on the roads folks,
> >
> >Adam
> >
> >ps-I forgot...I did rage out a little bit once when a snooty couple in a
black V12 Mercedes
> >sideswiped my white Westy with their black mirror which left a nasty
horozontial skid mark. I
> >buffed it out and considered reporting them as a hit and run, but decided
to let karma nail them in
> >the ass instead. Whatever works...
> >
> >
> >
> >
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