Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site peora.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!petsd!peora!san From: san@peora.UUCP (Sanjay Tikku) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Hateable driving habits...(NOT speeding or Seat Belts) Message-ID: <917@peora.UUCP> Date: Sat, 11-May-85 16:31:08 EDT Article-I.D.: peora.917 Posted: Sat May 11 16:31:08 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 12-May-85 09:08:36 EDT References: <250@petfe.UUCP> <891@peora.UUCP> <202@uwai.UUCP> Organization: Perkin-Elmer SDC, Orlando, Fl. Lines: 48 > > ... stop abruptly, just on the spur of the momment and the traffic ... > behind them is left to fend for itself. > > Driving, as states see it, is (1) a privilege and (2) at your own risk. You > have to be responsible for your own safety and keep proper distance. ("If you > can read this, you're too damn close!") > > If you drive, you're responsible for your life. Don't think it isn't a risk. > Don't think I don't believe in retesting, but when do you want to be told > "You can drive well enough anymore"? > > /DLL The person who wrote this piece of logic ( if it can be considered so at all) missed the point of my previous posting completely. While I was decrying the bad driving habits how do you think I survive except by acknowledging that it is a risk I am taking. You forgot to mention one more thing about driving - good driving habits are like courteous habits. If everybody adopted the attitude that you seem to postulate that we are totally responsible for our own safety then you are forgetting that bad driving habits considerably increase that "risk". As far as the remark towards the retired population is concerned - this applies to everyone - if you are not physically fit to be in full control of the vehicle then you have no business to be on the road. you probably did not hear of the octogenarian lady who swerved on the sidewalk, ripped a bench on the bus stop and then hit an electric pole ( which also mercifully stopped the vehicle) and when asked why she did it - SHE DID NOT SEE IT. I think this happened in TN some years ago. Also, what about the recent case in which an octogenarian couple went onto the airport runway, in Tampa( or was it St. Petersburg) in Fla., thinking it was I-275 and then fell off the end of the runway into the bay. Shaken but their comment was that "I-275 should be marked better". These are some well known incidents but in Florida, quite common. It is because of these people that my "risk" of being wrecked on the highway is considerably increased and that is what I RESENT. -- Full-Name: Sanjay Tikku UUCP: ..!{decvax,ucbvax,ihnp4}!vax135!petsd!peora!san CSnet: san%peora.UUCP@CSNET-RELAY USnail: MS 795; Perkin-Elmer SDC; 2486 Sand Lake Road, Orlando, FL 32809-7642 Tel: (305)850-1042-Off. ; (305)851-3700-Res.