--- TurquoiseB wrote: > > --- llundrub wrote: > > > > People is Vermont all drive the speed limit to the very mph. > > It's crazy. > > Same in Colorado. But there, if you're on a two-lane > Interstate and they are going the exact speed limit > and you try to pass them, they pull over into your > lane to keep you from doing so. Enforced P.C.
Once in the 1980s I was driving south on Route 1 just a few miles north of Fairfield. I was coming into town after an absence, and was excited about the prospect of seeing friends and getting into the Fairfield groove. In my haste to get where I was going, I pulled out to pass a car in front of me doing the strict speed limit. As I pulled up alongside him, he sped up so that I couldn't get ahead of him. My old four-cylinder Volvo wasn't up to the task of racing this big American car, so I let it go and dropped back. The funny thing was, the driver of the other car was a man who must have been in his sixties, and his three passengers were all ladies of his age. I glanced over to see they were upset about his driving. He was bent over his steering wheel with a defiant look of anger on his face, while the women around him were talking and gesticulating with no small measure of disapproval. Think of it: I was zipping along in the same lane as oncoming traffic, had there been any, and our line of sight was getting shorter thanks to a looming hill. Not a safe situation. Of a lifetime of driving in Iowa, I had never had such a thing happen. Only in Fairfield. But I don't attribute it to the place. I attribute it to my inability to do anything that's not life-supporting. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
