Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:40:27 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Was Bumpersticker..Driving habits..something..Now..how about
this "habit"?
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*cue the lights*
Drivers - whats the matter with drivers today
why cant they be like me perfect in every way-
i ve got proper tire pressure - grease on the gears-
oil n lube - brakes with out fears -
drivers whats the matter with drivers today
why cant them be like me perfect in every way
stopping at the stop mark
never a rolling end-
letting pedestrians pedest - as best they can---
oh well you get the idea-
sung to the tune of kids .. what s the matter with kids today
yours
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Andrew Grebneff <goose1047@gmail.com>wrote:
> Try Alberta or BC... it seems that NOBODY knows to keep to the right
> lane to allow faster traffic to use the left.
>
> > A great number of drivers now seem to have no familiarity with the
> concept
> > of passing on a normal highway with two way traffic. They seem
> absolutely
> > baffled by the concept of waiting for a safe sight-distance situation and
> > going around a slower vehicle by using the oncoming traffic lane. I see
> > this very often where I travel, as I try to avoid interstates. So,
> there
> > you are, traveling along at 65mph out in Nevada, Wyoming, Utah...some
> > western state with wide open spaces and two lane highways and up comes a
> > faster driver behind. Then they follow you for 10 miles! I have been
> > forced to slow up to about 20mph to encourage a particularly meek driver
> to
> > get his brights out of my mirrors at times.
> > Or, you come up behind a row of vehicles, stuck behind a slower truck or
> > car...chance after chance to pass is missed by the clueless car just
> behind
> > the slow vehicle and nobody in the line has the speed or the safe
> distance
> > to get round both the truck and the 'scaredy-cat' or the city fellow who
> > doesn't know it is OK to go around slower vehicles....
> > In Baja, Mexico, it's the custom to indicate it's safe for passing by
> > putting on your left blinker when someone is behind you and is itching to
> go
> > round. When you can see ahead that it's clear, you flip on the blinker
> and
> > the fellow goes right round. If you are going to be turning left off a
> > highway, it's customary there (Baja) to pull across the line and turn
> from
> > the oncoming lane so that people headed in your direction don't have to
> slow
> > up while you do your turn..
> > And here in the Northwest, we seem to have more than our share of left
> > lane slow drivers on the interstates. Between Portland and California on
> > Interstate 5, I usually encounter about two dozen that I must pass around
> > the right side, even in my VW vanagon...
> > Don Hanson
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Andrew Grebneff
> Dunedin, New Zealand
> Fossil preparator
> Mollusc, Toyota & VW van nut
> Temporarily in Calgary, AB, Canada
>
--
roger w
There are two kinds of jobs in the world:
Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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