Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 Fluke 8/7/84; site fluke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!ssc-vax!fluke!inc From: inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Calif. Stops & Other Driving Twits Message-ID: <400@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> Date: Mon, 1-Oct-84 12:07:25 EDT Article-I.D.: tpvax.400 Posted: Mon Oct 1 12:07:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 4-Oct-84 03:55:06 EDT References: <525@ihu1g.UUCP> <687@osu-dbs.UUCP> Organization: John Fluke Mfg. Co., Everett, WA Lines: 16 While there must be dozens of others to add to your list, my favorite peeve is the participant in the "Minnesota Gawker-Jam". This strange malady, endemic to Minnesota, but observable elsewhere, occurs when all these potential Good Samaritans slow down from their normal 54 mph (take no chances, those displaced Norwegians!) to about 2 or 3 mph in order to watch somebody beside the road. I have been involved in many such jams that were the result of just a car sitting there. But each driver slows down, checks out the car, and as soon as they have passed the object of their atention, resume the standard 54 speed... Noone ever stops to actually help, of course, but I think that *they* think they are giving comfort just by showing they care enough to slow down and check things out. -- Gary Benson ms232e -*- John Fluke Mfg Co -*- Box C9090 -*- Everett WA 98206 USA {microsoft,allegra,ssc-vax,sun,sb1}{decvax,ihnp4,tektronix!uw-beaver}!fluke!inc duetotheshortageofrobotsallourworkersarehumanandmayreactunpredictablywhenabused