Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83 based; site hound.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!hound!551rcg From: 551rcg@hound.UUCP (R.GANNS) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: the on-ramp Grand-Prix Message-ID: <655@hound.UUCP> Date: Thu, 4-Oct-84 12:27:15 EDT Article-I.D.: hound.655 Posted: Thu Oct 4 12:27:15 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 5-Oct-84 05:56:13 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel NJ Lines: 14 Here's another one. This happens to me nearly every day on the New Jersey Garden State Parkway. I pass through the toll plaza where I am relieved of 0.25$ for the privilege of driving on 9 miles of straight, smooth pavement (rare in NJ) and some cone-head behind me tries frantically to pass me in the 50 or so yards between the toll plaza and the on-ramp. I don't even have to see this clown in the rear-view to know (s)he's coming--I can tell by the pathetic rattling and screaming of their engine (this type of driving may also explain the large number of oil- burners on the road; being an auto mechanic in NJ must be fairly lucrative). Usually this putz will stop at nothing to get in front of me before we reach the on ramp, so I slow up to avoid being cut off or worse.