RE: Yo, everyone, who are those Colorado drivers?

["Smeins, Larry" <lsmeins@ball.com>]

Right on Harry.  I've lived in Colorado for 35 years and the changes are
phenomenal.  I commute 80 miles a day, half on I-25 and half on two lane
roads.  It seems that the courtesy in drivers that I encounter has been
decreasing exponentially in the last 5 years.  

A comment on the driving light issue.  I don't run my aux lights all day
but when my headlights are on my clear fogs are on.  Why?  Its the only
way I can see the road well enough to stay between the lines with those
damned Audi/DOT lights and at times its even marginal then.  Why is it
my Japanese cars have so much better lights than my Audis?  They do
import under the same lighting regs don't they?  I will turn them off
when my European conversions get here.  I've had them on order for two
months and still waiting.  Phillipe is getting to recognize my voice and
each time he says "as soon as I get them from Bosch I'll ship, should be
any day". 

Larry

>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 09:34:01 -0700 (MST)
>From: Harry R Glesner III <hglesner@ast.lmco.com>
>Subject: Yo, everyone, who are those Colorado drivers?

>Howdy Gang:
  >I feel like I've got to jump in here. I've lived in Colorado 
>since I was 4 years old in 1956. The population growth in Colorado 
>has always been "run away", but over the last 5 to 10 years it's 
>been almost painful. Point in case no one in my son's Cub Scout den 
>has been in Colorado for over 2 years. So I ask what is a Colorado 
>driver...transplanted Cal, Florida, Illinois on and on.  I work a 
>Lockheed Martin and I'm surrounded with San Deagans (?) who really 
>want to go home. Never more so than when it snows.  
  >Point is that I agree with the general thread that driving in 
>Colorado has become, what I shall call more interesting, but I 
>don't beleive it's the long term (15 years or more) Colorado 
>residents that are the problem, its the recent transplants. 
  
 > One last aimless question to the group as a whole...why in the 
>world has it become the "YUPPY" thing to run a round with driving 
>lights on all of the time. We in the U.S. have some of the worst 
>restrictions on lighting preformance in the world, so to compensate 
>these people seem to feel they must run around town all day long 
>miss-using the only good lights they? Help me understand this.
  
>Thanks for listening to this non-quattro material-
>Rick Glesner