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Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes

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On 12/31/2024 6:50 PM, Joel wrote:
> DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> I'm heading out of town for a while.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Best wishes to everyone.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> to be continued...
>>>>>
>>>>> Safe travels, friend.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.  It was, but spending 12 hours on the road definitely exposes
>>>> you to idiots and danger.
>>>>
>>>> A very large pickup just barely ahead of me started swerving into my
>>>> lane at 75 with no signal.  A quick honk kept them from hitting me.
>>>>
>>>> And something weird happened later: a Tesla driven by a negroid shadowed
>>>> us for a couple miles, staying in a blind spot to my right.  I sped up
>>>> or slowed down significantly and within seconds he was matching our
>>>> speed and in the same spot.  It could not have happened by coincidence.
>>>> Don't know what his major malfunction was - testing autopilot maybe?
>>>> Then he seriously tailgated another car for a while, and moved on.
>>>>
>>>> I arrived there and back home alive!
>>>
>>> Yeah there are some poor drivers out there, but there but for the
>>> grace of God go I, I was younger and full of testosterone once.  Glad
>>> I never killed myself, doing something retarded on the road.
>>
>> No doubt.  I risked my and my friends' and strangers' lives many times
>> in my teens, mostly just driving too fast.  Not reckless and maniacal,
>> but too fast to stop if someone pulled out of a side street.
>>
>> 6 months after high school graduation (my first quarter in college) a
>> couple of my 18-year-old friends from high school died in a car
>> accident.  One lived on my dorm hall, and was home for Christmas break
>> when it happened.  It was very upsetting.
> 
> 
> Yeah, it's tragic.  We need cars but they are hazards, in the hands of
> people without the perspective to stay safe.

We visited my wife's extended family over the holiday.  One of her 
cousins bought their 17- and 18-year-old daughters brand new 2024 
vehicles: a Dodge Hornet GT and a Subaru BRZ.  They're responsible girls 
as far as I know, but those are very fast cars.  Definitely wouldn't 
have been my first choices for a teenager.

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Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-24 11:12 -0500
  Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-24 11:26 -0500
    Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> - 2024-12-25 16:20 +0000
      Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 18:27 -0500
    Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 18:25 -0500
      Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 18:32 -0500
        Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 18:42 -0500
          Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 18:50 -0500
            Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 19:03 -0500
              Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 19:39 -0500
                Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 02:07 +0000
                Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-31 21:22 -0500
                Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 03:01 +0000
              Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 02:04 +0000
              Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2025-01-01 07:44 -0500
          Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 01:53 +0000
        Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 01:50 +0000
      Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-01-01 01:45 +0000
  Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-24 18:56 +0000
    Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 18:34 -0500
  Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com> - 2024-12-24 16:38 -0500
    Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes vallor <vallor@cultnix.org> - 2024-12-27 03:31 +0000
      Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-26 22:35 -0500
      Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2024-12-27 04:43 +0000
    Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-31 18:26 -0500
  Re: Merry Christmas to cola friends and foes bad sector <forgetski@_INVALID.net> - 2024-12-24 20:43 -0500

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