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Re: you people drive CRAZY!



I consider myself a somewhat aggressive driver (I was a cabdriver -- not 
in D.C. -- during my misspent youth), but apparently it is not so by local 
standards.

For seven years my wife and I commuted daily by car from suburban 
Maryland to the White House via the streets in rush-hour traffic.  I 
always drove.  I confess that occasionally I would flagrantly (by my 
standards) run red lights (after discovering that, in D.C., traffic 
enforcement is an oxymoron).  Out of habit, to let my wife know that I 
wasn't unalert, I would say something like "I'm going to run this light."

She would turn around and, when the foul deed was done, call out a 
number.  Did you guess?  That's right; she was counting the number of 
cars who ran the red light BEHIND ME!  In seven years she never had a 
single zero!  Average was close to four.

--
Eric Landau, APL Solutions, Inc. (elandau@cais.com)
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." -- Abbie Hoffman


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