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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
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> > 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).