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From: ccs009@ucdavis.UUCP (Capt. Vandervecken)
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Running Stop Signs - Do YOU?
Message-ID: <371@ucdavis.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 05:54:21 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucdavis.371
Posted: Thu Jul 18 05:54:21 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 20-Jul-85 02:10:40 EDT
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Organization: University of California, Davis
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> References:
> 
> How many of you out there regularly run stop signs?  My bet is that most,
> if not all of you do, most of the time!  You think I'm crazy, right?
> 
> Well, here in CA, a stop sign means that your car comes completely to rest,
> behind the limit line (if present).  My guess is that this doesn't vary much 
> from state to state. 
> 
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LET ME TELL YOU , I'm one of those saps that do stop.  I have a job part time
delivering pizza and I usually drive over 100 miles in town on a busy night,
and boy oh boy is Davis, CA a small town.  I exceed the speed limit where
I know it is no threat to anyone,( late at night there aren't many people out
or on the road) nevertheless, I always stop.  Speeding is a grey area, it 
may be safe to travel 35 instead of 25 or vice versa, but stopping is 
black or white, either you do or you don't.  There are several intersections
where I usually get come close to getting creamed 4 or five times a night
because people don't realize it is a two way stop ( the cross street stops
but I don't have to) and they glide on through the ole intersection and then
get irate when I honk, yell scream , swerve, shout obcenities and gesticulate
wildly that there perceptions of the traffic laws may be in error.  I can 
hardly wait for the person to actually get me  one night,(maybe I wont need that
GSL afterall :-) ).  I have no sympathy for those not observant to stop.

	I used to think pizza deliverers drived poorly...untill I started
to deliver pizzas myself.  I find myself much more intent on being attentive
to whats going on around me .  Now I know how truckers feel or anyone else
who drives for a living.  If I can afford to stop ( and I get paid by commision
most of you can too.  Give it a try, its not so hard.


			-Dennis'the Road Warrior' Michaels
				@ U.C. Davis '500'

p.s. this may be California, but the signs don't say 'slow down till like its
safe or whatever' they still say 'STOP'

pps. Boy will I catch **it for that calif. joke