Narrow Escape

[ccohen5]

Brett you had violated her constitutional right to be stupid.

Colin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brett Dikeman" <brett at cloud9.net>
To: "Fringe Ryder" <fringe at fringeweb.com>; <ccohen5 at compuserve.com>;
<quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 3:50 PM
Subject: RE: Narrow Escape


|
| At 9:27 AM -0800 3/17/02, Fringe Ryder wrote:
|
| >U.S. roads are a LOT wider, a LOT straighter
|
| You've obviously never been in New England.  The major roads for the
| most part were formed from animal paths, and consequently, NE looks
| like a plate of spaghetti.  Boston is pretty bad...all sorts of roads
| meet at odd angles, positions, etc...roads change names/numbers(Route
| 128 is a perfect example) and Boston is full of splits with rather
| unclear markings as to where each fork goes.  The Big Dig makes it
| even worse; exit closings, re-routings, street/bridge closings...
|
| Don't get me started about Massachusetts rotaries...its one of those
| things that by some miracle, works.
|
| Driving back from the NEQ board meeting caravaning with Paul Royal, a
| woman in one of those crappy econoboxes(laganza or something?) about
| the size of a postage stamp decided to squeeze in between my car and
| the truck in front of me at about 80mph.  There was maybe 1 car
| length room to spare, and I let my displeasure be known with
| highbeams and horn as she tried to fit in to avoid slowing down for
| traffic in her lane; I was already braking to increase distance
| between myself and the front car, but there clearly was not enough
| room given the stuff going on a car or two ahead...someone could have
| had to brake and a multicar pileup would have resulted.
|
| When she pulled back over and I resumed passing, she actually turned
| to me, leaned on the horn, and gave me the finger and mouthed some
| very inappropriate words.  When I -finished- passing, she popped back
| into the passing lane behind me, and flashed her highbeams for 10-15
| seconds.  Absolutely amazing.
|
| Brett
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