Xref: utzoo talk.bizarre:6240 soc.singles:1321 alt.flame:933 Path: utzoo!hoptoad!ptsfa!ames!hao!husc6!bbn!lf-server-2.bbn.com!tdonahue 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 References: <8079@ism780c.UUCP> <2060023@hpccc.HP.COM> <797@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <2507@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1288@vaxwaller.UUCP> <17277@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Reply-To: tdonahue@BBN.COM (Tim Donahue) Distribution: na Organization: BBN Communications Corp., Cambridge, MA Lines: 39 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