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- From: ataylor@nmsu.edu (Nosy)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves
- Subject: Cain't DO that in Austin! (Was: BDI On Board)
- Message-ID: <ATAYLOR.92Jul27135907@gauss.nmsu.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 20:59:07 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM's message of 27 Jul 1992 08:43:19 GMT
-
- <In article <l77dp7INNj4n@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> banta@blagg.Eng.Sun.COM
- <(242 lbs before roasting in a burning Chevette) writes:
- < (Jonathan Powell) writes:
- < >Peeve: People here in Austin feel the need to STOP at the end of entrance
- < >ramps when the available opening isn't quite to their high standards. And
- < >THEN, they accelerate as slowly as possible once there is a small opening,
-
- < It ain't just Austin, sodkicker.
-
- Damned straight it ain't; stopping on onramps is also
- an El Paso hobby.
-
- <I have yet to encounter an on-ramp that isn't at least two and a
- <half car-widths wide.
-
- Then you ain't been on the older part of the Austin
- north-south freeway, the Valley Expressway in Denver,
- the Boulder-Denver Turnpike or parts of the Houston
- "system". Some of the Denver onramps are barely
- wide enough for a semi IF it is going straight.
-
- Some of the Austin onramps are about 50 feet long and
- BING! you is in traffic, NOW.
-
- <Your option number three should have be
- < "Drive around them," preferably at speeds appropriate to make them
- < shit their pants.
-
- An excellent plan, unfortunately there isn't always
- enough concrete to do that job in AustinTacious.
-
- ObAustinTacious peeve: the unique habit some denizens have
- of pulling up to a red light, staring into space for
- a few seconds and then driving on without *ever*
- looking for traffic. Must be after-reverberations
- of the Harmonic Convergance at work or something.
- Fortunately, I haven't seen much of this one
- anywhere else.
-
- <I do this often.
-
- Good thing there's no insurance agents on the net....
-
- ObPeeve: the State Farm agent of years gone by that saw a friend
- of mine driving a bug-eye Sprite on Sunday at a rally....
- and canceled said friends' car insurance on Monday,
- because "Our Company Doesn't Insure Road Racers".
-
- (I leave to Banta and the rest of that racing team
- the obvious rant.)
-
- <The sound of horns and the sight of Allante
- <drivers with their foot leaving dimples in the floor as they attempt
- <to catch up and shake a fist at me warms my heart.
-
- Don't try this on the Patriot Expressway or I-10
- in El Peso....you won't be able to accelerate more
- than 100 meters before encountering yet another
- BDI putting along at 40 mph in the right AND left
- lane. One thing's for sure; they get their taxes
- worth out of the road, by using as many lanes as
- possible.
-