Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site bunker.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!bunker!garys From: garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Driving peeves and sexist language Message-ID: <575@bunker.UUCP> Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 13:36:15 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.575 Posted: Fri Oct 12 13:36:15 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Oct-84 03:13:55 EDT References: <655@hound.UUCP>, <5127@brl-tgr.ARPA> <167@hocsj.UUCP> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 19 > > From: ron@brl-tgr.UUCP > > > > Mine is the automated toll taker idiot. This is the person who > > gets in the exact change lane. Stops, opens up her purse, gets > > out 25 cents, rolls down the window, leans way out, drops the > > quarter in the basket (optionally missing it), waits for the > > green light, then rolls up her window and proceeds. > > > > Amazing! I never realized that men never did this. All those men fumbling > in their jeans for change must be women in disguise! > > Evelyn C. Leeper > ...ihnp4!hocsj!ecl How do you know Ron wasn't employing the generic 'her', meaning a person of either sex? (Not because of the purse; I have been known to keep change in a coin purse when I know I'm going through a lot of tolls).