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From: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: L.A. drivers
Message-ID: <869@cae780.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 14-May-85 02:28:37 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 14 02:28:37 1985
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Reply-To: alan@cae780.UUCP (Alan M. Steinberg)
Organization: CAE Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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>Any nettie ever driven in Los Angeles?
>...
>Before you feel sorry for yourself in Aakron or Winnemuca Falls,
>try the Long Beach freeway around 2:45 some Friday afternoon....
>

What IS it with L.A. drivers?  How many people can "own the road" at
once?  I know I generalize (don't we all?), but when you step in your
car, find an on-ramp, and become part of that strange flowing mass on
the Santa Monica Freeway or 101, you take your life into your own hands.
There should be a Rogue-like game, "LA Freeways", complete with hit
points, monsters (Joyrider, Speedfreak, and the dreaded 90-in-the-slow-
lane creature).  "Try to get from your condo in Pomona to San Pedro..."
Hey, if you don't tailgate, you ain't cool, right?  And you got to, like,
wave to all the girls in the convertibles, fer sure.  With both hands off
the wheels in commuter traffic!!

Seriously, if courtesy were part of the driver's test (is it?), more people
in LA would be stuck riding the bus.  Of course, the problem is growing here
in fast-paced Silicon Valley.  We only get tail-gated in the middle and
fast lanes.  (Some people might point out that this is due to all the
LA people who have moved up here, but I would never suggest such a thing.)
So watch out, fellow Silicon Valley folks, we may be turning into another
LA (but I'll never be a Dodger fan).

There.  I feel better now.  For all of you who now face an hour and a half
commute along the Pomona Freeway back home, be grateful of one thing: Rick
Dees is only on in the morning.

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