On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
> At 10:04 05-03-01 -0600, Julia wrote:
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> >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
> >
> > > Simple. Don't crash... ;o)
> >
> >Can't always be helped.
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>
> How true. (Note that the "don't crash" suggestion was not mine.
> ;-) ) Remind me to tell you sometime about the time the boat hit
> me. (Yes, I was on dry land, on the road, minding my own business.)
>
>
> >The way some of these people drive SUVs around
> >here (and the women as a class seem to be ruder and less mindful of the
> >safety of others than men as a class),
>
>
> Is it that they are actually ruder when driving alone, or that as
> mothers, women are more likely to have the vehicle full of screaming,
> fighting kids who constantly distract them from the task of driving?
They are ruder when driving alone; but some of that may be due to the fact
that they have to use their lunch hour to run vital errands, and they're
in a rush to get back to work (I first noticed this problem around
lunchtime), or, if it's later in the day and the vehicle is otherwise
unoccupied, maybe they're in a rush to pick up the screaming, fighting
kids and are running a few minutes late and aren't thinking about how much
better it would be to NOT be involved in an accident (which would make
them so much later!), and only be 10 minutes late picking up the kids.
Who knows. I expect the erratic behavior from the minivans, on the
assumption that anyone who bought a minivan did it for transporting kids,
but who knows why an SUV owner bought it? There are so many more
reasons.... (Also, you don't know if it's a person who'd otherwise drive
a pickup or someone who'd otherwise drive a minivan, both of which have
more consistent behaviors. We buy something big like that, it'll be a
pickup truck, and it'll only get used when necessary. At least until I
have to start driving for @#$% carpools and such....)
Julia
