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!linus!decvax!ittvax!bunker!gmm From: gmm@bunker.UUCP (Gregory M. Mandas) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: More Highway Highjinks Message-ID: <572@bunker.UUCP> Date: Thu, 11-Oct-84 15:26:35 EDT Article-I.D.: bunker.572 Posted: Thu Oct 11 15:26:35 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 01:52:41 EDT References: <869@ihuxe.UUCP> <> <207@zinfandel.UUCP> <408@amd.UUCP> <5170@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bunker Ramo, Trumbull Ct Lines: 35 [] Two more incompatible driving peeves are: 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. 2) The Detroit Stomp When the lights turn green in Detroit everybody stomps on the gas. If you are first in line you had better hurry up, because the guy behind you assumes you too are testing the 0 to 60 preformance of your car. (I believe this is an example of operant conditioning. The timing of the lights in Detroit assures you that if you blast off the line and make the next light before it turns red, you can make the next 4 or 5 lights.) ----- A friend of mine told me a story about when he was living in Detroit and his brother-in-law, from Connecticut, came out to visit. You guessed it. The Brother-in-law was driving and ended up first in line at a stop light. Well he attempted the Connecticut Stomp and the on-comming traffic preformed the Detroit Stomp. Fortunately, nobody had more than their pride hurt. "But,...But,...I do this all the time." ---- Greg Mandas ittvax!bunker!gmm