Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!mit-eddi!rh From: rh@mit-eddi.UUCP (Randy Haskins) Newsgroups: net.auto,net.flame Subject: Re: Penis Substitutes Message-ID: <270@mit-eddi.UUCP> Date: Thu, 23-Jun-83 14:21:35 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.270 Posted: Thu Jun 23 14:21:35 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 24-Jun-83 21:31:28 EDT References: ritcv.407 Lines: 28 At age 20, I had my accident. I was doing 40 in a 40 zone. Unfortunately, there was a "Pay attention" sign on that road, so I was not looking forward to see that the car in front of me was stopped without having its brakelights on. (Before I look around me, I always do a "parse forward red lights.") I managed to slow down to about 20-25 before hitting, but my car was still totaled. The point is, I should have been able (probably) to avoid that car by safely swerving, but I had just never gotten around to taking that defensive driving course I had thought about. But at least I was a better driver at 20 than I was when the state of Florida gave me my license at 16. (I had just learned to drive a stick about 3 days before the test, although I had been driving automatics in traffic for a while.) In the course of my test, I: 1. Stalled the car twice because of my clutching (lack of) ability. 2. Put the car into reverse when I was supposed to put it in 1st. 3. Turned left when I was supposed to turn right. 4. Made the wheels squeal when I stopped quickly. I still got my license. Later that day, I was almost killed on one of our Florida racetracks when I was trying to turn left off of it. I was stopped waiting for a break in the other direction, I hear trememdous honking, and I see some idiot go flying by on MY LEFT (in the other lane). I wish they hadn't given me my license that day, because I would have been helpless in that situation. --Randy