Women and the Road

[A v G <avangerb@zoo.uvm.edu>]

Well I missed the original letter containing the inflamatory remark by
PlyBoyDoct@aol.com:
"Another reason, why women shouldn't be on the road....=)....
JMO and not a flame against women.  Just my personal experiences..."

What do the women on the list think about that comment?  I'm not trying to
incite a battle of the sexes or a riot on the Q-List, but I remember as a
child hearing my father complain about women drivers everytime I was in
the car with him.  I took on the opinion of my father for quite some time,
before I began driving my own car.  Then after a year or so of driving and
seeing accidents here and there, hearing stories from my mother from the
E.R. at the local hospital my opinion took a 180.  I heard so many stories
about aggressive male drivers causing many visits to the E.R. from my
mother, and seeing many an accident with not a woman on scene.  From my
personal experience I believe that neither sex is a worse or better
driver, it is a personal thing, unique to each driver.  I will say that
aggressive driving will always lead to accidents when done at the wrong
time and place.  I have yet to experience the complete and total suckiness
of having accident(knocking on wood over here), so my experiences are from
the perspective of a younger, unexperienced driver, that I will admit any
day!

One thing that does peeve me about some women drivers is when they are 4
foot 1 inch and drive a Suburban to go and get their one child from
school, whilest talking on a cellular phone, and applying makeup at the
same time.  I see a ton of that in the area I live in, which by the way is
infected with SUV's(yuck).  They fail to see my 80 as they fly down the
center of the dirt road I live on, scares the bejesus outta of me
sometimes when I come around a corner.  Then again some men drive those
evil things too, but I rarely see them applying makeup, and when I do I 
REALLY avoid those cars!

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