Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:50:09 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: "Deadly Crash"
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About 5 years ago I started a new regimen. I was determined to walk 5
miles at least every other day, and every day when I could. In doing
that, I began to discover things I had long forgotten. I saw stuff. The
bees on the brown-eye-susans, the male Anole lizard crawling up a banana
plant stalk on the side of the road, puffing out his neck colors to
entice a lady Anole - also on the same banana stalk - into a trist, a
dried and curled possum's tail marking his passage in his time (when
possum's die, they completely disappear, except for that dried and
curled tail), a pocket knife, a hard hat, a stepladder lying in the
grass beside the road, a snake, the nest of a sandpiper (they like to
nest in the grass in mowed fields here in the south) a canadian goose
nest with eggs, a childs tennis shoe, a pair of silken panties, one half
a pair of sunglasses, a coal chisel, a hammer, the list goes on. It all
happened because by walking, I slowed down. I had TIME to see things
that I otherwise would never see.
When gas prices got so high, I slowed my driving speeds to increase gas
mileage. The optimum speed for a Vanagon is 50-55 mph anyway, given what
they were built for (truck chassis and running gear) and the period in
which they were built. I try to avoid frustrating to many speed demons,
but slower driving once again allows me to be able to see so much more
- enjoy so much more, when I'm out and about
Now-a-days I can appreciate better the oldster's slower driving, and I'm
much more patient with it. It would appear that it is the youth, the
young, who want to go 90 mph with their hair on fire, speeding like a
jet plane to their respective destiny's only to arrive there wishing
they had not been is such a hurry. Of course that is what youth vs
maturity is all about. BTW, anyone on this list younger than I am are
"youth"! And by that definition, we got a lot of "youth" here! ;-)
I drive my Vanagon like I walk - a little slower these days - so I can
enjoy in more detail all that surrounds me.
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Neil2 wrote:
> I second that.
>
> When I moved to FL a few years ago I immediately began driving like the
> elderly and didn't mind it a bit. Back in Baltimore I switched right back
> to the rat race. Then in ID, back to the slow life. Here in Portland I
> drive all speeds but NEVER exhibit road rage at slow drivers. That's below
> me. (Tongue in cheek.)
>
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 11:49 AM, Don Hundt <dhundt@bendbroadband.com>wrote:
>
>
>> Andrew Grebneff wrote: "Slow drivers are one of the major causes of
>> roadrage"
>>
>> No, Andrew, getting ANGRY at slow drivers is one of the major causes of
>> Road
>> rage. As a slow driver, I'm only responsible for my actions, not yours.
>> Cheers,
>> Don
>>
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> Neil2
> '82 Diesel Westfalia (USS Tinosa)
> '86 Vanagon/Westfalia Wannabe (SaVannah)
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