Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site polaris.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!polaris!herbie From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Newsgroups: net.auto Subject: Re: Most obnoxious driver awards Message-ID: <463@polaris.UUCP> Date: Sun, 2-Mar-86 13:45:22 EST Article-I.D.: polaris.463 Posted: Sun Mar 2 13:45:22 1986 Date-Received: Tue, 4-Mar-86 04:06:57 EST References: <182@copper.UUCP> <840@ellie.UUCP> Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong) Distribution: na Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC Lines: 24 Summary: In article <840@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes: >> The single recurring similarity in the vast majority of incidents is that the >> idiot in the four wheeled vehicle just happens to be driving a pickup truck. > >My own experience (in the suburbs of Buffalo) confirms that pickup drivers >in general are less courteous and considerate than other drivers. An >alternative explanation is that rural drivers are likely to drive pickups, >and unlikely to have been trained well. it also could be that their truck handles so badly that they can't help what they're doing. not that i've driven many trucks but the larger ones i have handled terribly. Herb Chong... I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble.... VNET,BITNET,NETNORTH,EARN: HERBIE AT YKTVMH UUCP: {allegra|cbosgd|cmcl2|decvax|ihnp4|seismo}!philabs!polaris!herbie CSNET: herbie.yktvmh@ibm-sj.csnet ARPA: herbie.yktvmh.ibm-sj.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa, herbie%yktvmh.bitnet@wiscvm ======================================================================== DISCLAIMER: what you just read was produced by pouring lukewarm tea for 42 seconds onto 9 people chained to 6 Ouiji boards.