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From: tdonahue@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (Tim Donahue)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,soc.singles,alt.flame
Subject: Re: CA law regarding left-lane driving
Message-ID: <367@lf-tdonahue.BBN.COM>
Date: 11 Dec 87 20:22:58 GMT
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In article <17277@bu-cs.BU.EDU> spike@bu-it.UUCP (Joe Ilacqua) writes:
>In article <1288@vaxwaller.UUCP> chip@vaxwaller.UUCP (Chip Kozy) writes:
>>In article <2507@gryphon.CTS.COM>, richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton) writes:
>>. In article <888@plx.UUCP> jeffh@plx.UUCP (Jeff Huntington) writes:
>>. >
>>. >The key here is "Normal flow of traffic"  A very common situation (at
>>. >least in the Bay area) is for three lanes of traffic to be moving at
>>.               ^^^^^^^^^
>>.               Worst drivers in the world. Except France.
>>
>>	Agreed!
>
>
>	Bad drivers?  HA!  Have you ever tried to drive in Boston?-- 
>->Spike

Wake up, Spike.  Boston, the Hub of the universe, has the best drivers
in the universe.  Here every driver is continuously and acutely aware of
the only two reasons people get in their cars in the first place: 1) to
go somewhere, or 2) to go nowhere.

In case 1, Ensure Forward Progress is the general goal.  Two primary
strategies are used: Drive as fast as possible to keep ahead of the next
bozo (trying not to flatten pedestrians whilst within Cambridge city
limits), or Get Out of the Fucking Way.  Simple, even for MIT EE
graduates who also happen to fail the TOEFL test.

In case 2, you're just Out For A Ride. Driving as fast as possible is
the way to maximize the fun of being Out For A Ride.  Since everyone
wants to have as much fun as possible while going nowhere, they drive as
fast as possible while going nowhere.  That's why EVERY car stopped in
Burlington on 128 has the radio on, tuned to NPR and laughing at what
Ron's done for the day, or to WBCN which is playing great tunes.

You want bad driving?  STUPID, IGNORANT, DISCOURTEOUS, SLOW driving,
usually in beat up cars?  Go to northeast New Jersey.  That is the worst.

Yours,
Tim