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Love Letters from the Road
Aug. 23rd, 2007 08:04 amAttention Sir Mr. Big-Man-In-Suit, from Connecticut,
You'll notice that when I approached the red light this morning, that I slowed and stopped. This is generally considered the preferred behavior, as opposed to your actions of slowing, then accelerating through the red light.
You'll also notice that this running of the red light served many purposes, namely at the second light away, it left us side by side once again, and, at the third light, you were falling behind.
Please, though, feel free to continue to think you're more important than the rest of us. Right up until you kill or injure one of us in an accident, it provides no ends of entertainment.
Dear Kelli from New Jersey,
BMW might be sadly disappointed to find out that the turning circle of one of their overly-well-thought-of automobiles was actually far worse than that of an average city bus. I know this explicitly because the bus that followed you cleared my front fender with at least a car length to spare, while, for you, I was in the process of shifting into reverse. And here, all this time, I thought that left turn lane was set back to allow trucks and buses to make the turn without hitting the few cars that actually stop on the line instead of all the way up at the other lane's stop line. Turns out it's just for blondes in BMWs. Who'd have thought it?
Then again, it could be that you were just too engrossed with that strange, cellphone-like growth on the side of your head to actually bother turning the wheel enough to avoid hitting me. If it wasn't that, and it was actually that German engineering is critically flawed, I might have to advise the city to move that line back further so you can make your turn in safety.
You'll notice that when I approached the red light this morning, that I slowed and stopped. This is generally considered the preferred behavior, as opposed to your actions of slowing, then accelerating through the red light.
You'll also notice that this running of the red light served many purposes, namely at the second light away, it left us side by side once again, and, at the third light, you were falling behind.
Please, though, feel free to continue to think you're more important than the rest of us. Right up until you kill or injure one of us in an accident, it provides no ends of entertainment.
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Dear Kelli from New Jersey,
BMW might be sadly disappointed to find out that the turning circle of one of their overly-well-thought-of automobiles was actually far worse than that of an average city bus. I know this explicitly because the bus that followed you cleared my front fender with at least a car length to spare, while, for you, I was in the process of shifting into reverse. And here, all this time, I thought that left turn lane was set back to allow trucks and buses to make the turn without hitting the few cars that actually stop on the line instead of all the way up at the other lane's stop line. Turns out it's just for blondes in BMWs. Who'd have thought it?
Then again, it could be that you were just too engrossed with that strange, cellphone-like growth on the side of your head to actually bother turning the wheel enough to avoid hitting me. If it wasn't that, and it was actually that German engineering is critically flawed, I might have to advise the city to move that line back further so you can make your turn in safety.
