At 15:07 06-03-01 -0600, you wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
> > At 10:04 05-03-01 -0600, Julia wrote:
> >
> >
> > >On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Charlie Bell wrote:
> > >
> > > > Simple. Don't crash... ;o)
> > >
> > >Can't always be helped.
> >
> >
> > 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
Yup. Too bad letting kids ride in the bed of a pickup is now frowned upon
. . .
;-)
-- Ronn! :)
