Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!amd!dual!zehntel!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!kaufman From: kaufman@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Stomp The Band (Connecticut) Message-ID: <36200163@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16-Oct-84 14:17:00 EDT Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.36200163 Posted: Tue Oct 16 14:17:00 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 19-Oct-84 05:58:55 EDT Lines: 29 Nf-ID: #N:uiucdcs:36200163:000:1309 Nf-From: uiucdcs!kaufman Oct 16 13:17:00 1984 /* Written 3:56 am Oct 13, 1984 by gmm@bunker in uiucdcs:net.flame */ ... incompatible driving peeve: 1) The Connecticut Stomp. If you are stopped at a light and the car directly across from you has his left turn signal on he will, in 95% of the cases, attempt to make his left turn before you get off the line. Being new to the area and from the flat-lands of Ohio, this is very disconcerting. The more I drive in Connecticut the more I find that this is the local WRONG. The local population has become trained to wait for the left turn before proceeding. ---- So you're new to Connecticut. Congratulations! Perhaps I can offer you a little insight on the subject, since that was my original stomping ground. One Saturday afternoon in the near future, try driving up and down US 1 in Westport. See all the poor drivers trying to turn left, although they have a beachball's chance in Kansas of being able to make the turn in a finite amount of time. Things have been getting a bit better, though; they've been adding a few more left arrows on the traffic lights in that area recently. Remember too, you'll soon appreciate Connecticut drivers once you realize you're surrounded by the insane hordes from Massachusetts, New York City, and New Jersey. Ken Kaufman (uiucdcs!kaufman)