I've driven through Newark, on a bright Friday afternoon, the first day of a
3 day Fourth of July weekend-and the things I saw curled my hair! (And they
were pretty equally divided between Jersey plates and NY plates.) And I
don't scare easily.
My family is from upstate, but I've never been back since!
Laura
Vita brevis est: rapide agite, vigore strigate!
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Kelly <bk54@erols.com>
To: <Spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 13, 2000 8:52 PM
Subject: Re: CRASH!-Crazy drivers
>
> Gosh, all these horror stories about being cut off deliberately, people
> getting out to pound on your car, guns, make me glad I live in a
> civilised place - New Jersey! The Turnpike and Rte 80 generally move
> about 70-75 mph, in 55 as well as 65 mph zones (can't say the same for
> the northern stretches of the Garden State Parkway, with toll barriers
> every 5 miles). Nothing outrageous, because all the natives know there
> could be a crushing traffic jam just over the next rise. Occasionally
> you'll get cut off a little close, but not from malice, rather a desire
> on the part of the cutting driver to go fast. We all drive sports cars.
> We can identify with that!
>
> Sure, every now and then there'll be someone sitting in the passing lane
> going way too slow and tying up traffic, and the blood pressure will go
> up a few points per mile, but 9 times out of 10 they're from a
> neighboring state (the big one with the white plates with the red
> lettering and a picture of the Statue of Liberty, OUR statue - yeah, you
> know who you are - what do they do, teach you to hog the left lane in
> Driver's Ed? - donning Nomex now). We natives just take turns passing
> them on the right, perhaps making an appropriate hand gesture as we go
> by, and that's the end of it.
>
> BK
>
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