Wait Gar, one more ... My mom is scared of heights and she says she feels like she is being pulled to the side when on a bridge.
Twenty-something years ago, I student taught drivers ed. in college (sometimes on country roads:) I had a professor who harped all the time reminding us student teachers to harp on the student driver not to look at the on coming car or a parked car because of a tendency to steer towards what was being looked at. This was particularly an issue for new/inexperienced drivers. And, on New Years Eve at 9:30 p.m. Chicago time, 20-something years ago I would have already taught a few pints a lesson or two. But, instead, to night I am home with my wife and three sons (12, 10, and 8) making homemade pizza - but there are a couple of pints in the fridge post marked from Ireland with my name on them. Happy New Years and pray for peace Jorma Kurry wrote: > Does anybody else ever feel like they're being pulled to the side of a > bridge when they're running across one? > I don't know if it's my paranoia/fear of heights, latent suicidal tendencies > or some other effect. The only other person I ever brought it up with said > he felt the same way. > Jorma > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Dan Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --- ghill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This sounds so crazy I think I must be making it up, but did I read > > > somewhere once (urban myth?) that there's some kind of "inherent > > > targeting mechanism" in the brain that actually leads drivers in > > > certain cases to swerve towards people (not just runners) on the side > > > of the road? Not with any malice; sort of a can't-help-it thing. > > > > It's common knowledge in mountain biking that if you look at the rock > > you're trying to avoid, you'll hit it regardless. The same holds true for > > most anything: Look at it and you will unintentionally veer that > > direction. In the case of runners on the side of the road (I agree with > > Kurt Bray's assessment), we really are a novelty to much of the > > population. As such, it's only natural that people will look over and > > veer toward said runners whether or not they mean harm. > > > > I would also add that I've received all sorts of heckling and profanities > > pretty much everywhere I've run, with the major exception being Vancouver, > > B.C. > > > > Dan > > > > ===== > > http://AccountBiller.com - MyCalendar, D-Man, ReSearch, etc. > > http://Run-Down.com - 10,000 Running Links, Fantasy T&F > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > > @ o Dan Kaplan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > <|\/ <^- ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > > _/ \ \/\ (503)370-9969 phone/fax > > / / > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > >
