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RE: wreck..semi-rant

To: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>,
Subject: RE: wreck..semi-rant
From: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 09:31:40 -0400
Yeah, that (stupidity), too

> ----------
> From:         Bill Gunshannon[SMTP:bill@cs.scranton.edu]
> Sent:         Thursday, May 18, 2000 9:04 AM
> To:   Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us
> Cc:   spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: wreck..semi-rant
> 
> According to Banbury, Terrence:
> > 
> > 
> > Yes, absolutely.  Take care of yourself and Kermit, too.
> > 
> > Wasn't there another Spitfire that was recently run off the road as
> well; by
> > an Explorer.  Seems to me it was a yellow1500 , I believe.  I find it
> > curious that the collisions seem to involve vehicles running into "our"
> > Spits.  I'm not the paranoid kind, but I seem to sense when I'm in
> traffic
> > that there is some kind of value judgement/intimidation going on.  Seems
> > like they pull up on my rear bumper a little closer than they do when I
> > drive my Honda.  Maybe I'm wrong.
> > There is such a thing as vehicle-based hatred/envy that some people 'act
> > out' on.  First experienced this when I drove my new Expedition.
> 
> 
> Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
> stupidity.
> 
> My daughter drive a Honda.  A month or so ago she got rear-ended on the
> interstate at a construction slow down.  $3000 worth of damage repair
> later
> she got the car back last Saturday.  Monday, on the way to work, she got
> rear-ended sitting at a traffic light.  
> 
> I can remember when the argument was between which of Italian or French
> drivers were the worst in the world.  US drivers have long since surpassed
> both of them.
> 
> bill
> 
> -- 
> Bill Gunshannon          |  de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n.  Three wolves
> bill@cs.scranton.edu     |  and a sheep voting on what's for dinner.
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