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From: chu@lasspvax.UUCP (Clare Chu)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: close call(reply to comments on n.y. drivers
Message-ID: <354@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-May-85 13:22:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 16 13:22:10 1985
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In article <520@hou2b.UUCP> dwc@hou2b.UUCP (D.CHEN) writes:
>that you missed the point of my posting: should i let someone get away
>with claiming that he is a cop?
>
>>  just forget about it and be glad you didn't get into an accident.
>>  No sense raising your own blood pressure over an insignificant
>>  incident like that.  Whenever I'm driving in New York or Philadelphia
>>  people are always impolite, cutting in front of me, cutting me off,
>>  cursing, shaking their fists and being fools.  Luckily, keep my
>>  fingers crossed, I have only been rear-ended once, at a stop sign
>>  where I came to a slow gentle stop.  I've also almost been rear-
>>  ended when I stopped at a crosswalk for pedestrians, if you can
>>  believe that.  If you wanted to report all the illegal moves
>>  people make on the streets of New York, you'd probably have to
>>  report 3/4th of the whole city including the jaywalkers!  Take
>>  three deep breaths and say, "like no big deal..."
>
>there is a definite difference between being impolite and being dangerous
>and (if one is a cop) abusing one's authority.
>
>by the way, if you are constantly being honked at and yelled at on the road
>it might actually be your driving habits rather than the thousands of people
>around you.  in other words, just because people are impolite, impatient, and
>acting like fools doesn't mean you are driving okay.  maybe you shouldn't
>drive with your fingers crossed...its harder to steer(:-}).
>
>danny chen
>ihnp4!hou2b!dwc
>
>"in new york city, the directional lights are not a sign for turning, they are
>a sign of weakness"


  for your information I have been driving since 1977 on Los Angeles
  freeways, made three x-country trips and driven from the South Bronx
  to Manhattan.  I have never been ticketed for a moving violation except
  for one speeding ticket in Missouri (and who doesn't get speeding
  tickets nowadays anyway).  My driving is more than okay.  The reason
  those people are impolite is because I am stopping for pedestrians
  at a crosswalk like I'm supposed to do, coming to a complete stop
  at stop signs, slowing down to let people cut into my lane when
  there is a merging situation.  I use my turn signals because the
  California driver's handbook suggests it and I don't drive with my
  fingers crossed (it's just a proverbial expression).  I can't help
  it if the people behind me think it's all right to run over a cross-
  walk with pedestrians in it because I'm the one who's going to be
  ticketed if I don't stop.  As to whether you should report tothe
  police or not on your almost-accident I understand that you were
  upset and you can do what you want.  It's just my opinion that the
  police can't be bothered for almost-accidents when they've got so
  many other things to do.  Besides I've seen a police car(in NY)
  run across crosswalk while people are trying to cross.

  Clare