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From: donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley)
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Subject: Re: Flashing high beams
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Date: Wed, 22-Feb-84 00:33:09 EST
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From Mark Terribile:

	To the individuals who don't know that flashed high beams mean
	  ``please let me pass'':

	What state were you licensed in???  Did you READ the divers manual for
	your state?? Did you even GET one??

I didn't know you needed a license if you didn't jump off the high
board...  Can they arrest you for not wearing a cap in the pool?

But seriously, folks...

I first was put behind the wheel of an automobile (small truck,
actually) in Indonesia.  I firmly believed then (and still do) that
one flashes one's high beams as a courtesy to oncoming traffic, telling
them, 'Look out, I'm coming through!'

Needless to say, failure to flash one's lights after moving into the
left lane is tres gauche and likely to lead to accidents of the sort
where both the vehicle being passed and an oncoming vehicle end up
wrapped around palm trees.  Indonesian vehicular manslaughter is so
common that it rarely is remarked on when fewer than 40 individuals
are involved... (:-> ?)

American drivers aren't THAT bad,

Donn Seeley    UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF    ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn