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From: brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor)
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Subject: Re: List of Drivers to Avoid
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Date: Tue, 4-Feb-86 13:26:47 EST
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My nomination for drivers to avoid is those attempting to pilot a
VOLVO.

Whenever there is a line of cars poking along in the faster lanes, the
head of the column will be a VOLVO.

Whenever there is a car waiting for the stop sign to turn green, that
car will be VOLVO.

Whenever you see a car slowing down at every intersection, its a
VOLVO.

And why, do you ask, is this so often true?

Well, its because VOLVO has for years advertised their car for safety.
Not performance, not beauty, not elegence nor refinement.  Safety.  And
so the great number of purchasers of Volvos are those people who feel
unsafe when they are driving.  These are the people who would be much
better off, and far more at ease, on public transportation (if there
WERE any public transporation in the USA, but that's another flame).

So who is at the wheel of that Volvo?  Someone who doesn't want to be
there.  Someone who is afraid to be there.  Someone who really doesn't
BELONG there.  They bought a Volvo because they thought they'd be safer
that way, and just to make sure, they're going to drive
super-cautiously.  They're going to go 5 to 15 miles per hour BELOW the
speed limit, even on clear sunny days with no other traffic nearby.
They're going to wait extra long at lights that turn green just in case
the light isn't sure and might change back.  They're going to stop at
all railroad crossings and put their ear to the track to make sure that
there isn't a train coming.  And they're going to be so cautious about
themselves that they endanger everyone else around them by their
unpredictable behaviour.

Volvos, as cars, aren't bad.  Mechanically, and in performance, they're
not bad.  But no one who wants one should be allowed to drive one.

And if you took any of this seriously, I've got some swampland in
Honduras I'd like you to invest in....

	Brian Kantor	UC San Diego

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