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From: paulb@ttidcc.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: crosswalks
Message-ID: <595@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 12:15:29 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 12:15:29 1985
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Reply-To: paulb@ttidcc.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Organization: Flamers of the World
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Summary: 

In article <747@ptsfa.UUCP> df@ptsfa.UUCP (Dave Fox) writes:
>I was surprised I didn't read in the paper every day about Californians
>being killed on the streets of Chicago.
>
>One of my first days in CA I was checking out my new surrounds, standing
>on the curb in the middle of the block and looking at the stores on the other
>side of the street. A car stopped and the driver smilingly waved to me that
>I should cross the street. They actually encourage moving targets! Ieeyyy!

When I lived in NYC, I worked for a company with LA Headquarters.  Part  of
our entertainment consisted of watching visiting HQ people try to cross the
street.

Yes, CA is different.  My father-in-law was visiting us and decided to walk
to  some  stores.  A  bus  stopped  next  to  him, and the driver asked him
whether he was walking to the bus stop.  As the song goes: "Nobody Walks in
LA." The driver must have figured that he had to be walking to a bus stop.
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