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David is an occasional blogger, software engineer, Nintendo fanboy, liberal, news magazine addict, voracious TiVo user, and bibliophile. He was born in St. Louis, grew up in southern Indiana, and returned to St. Louis to attend Washington University. He hasn't managed to escape yet. He's a fan of free wine tastings, too many tv shows to name, and eating out. David makes his living developing web applications used internally by his employer. He doesn't blog about work because he's heard too many stories about that causing workplace troubles. There's more on the about page. |
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8 August 2003 - 8:39 am
I know that police officers are above the law, but sometimes a little common sense would help them out. For example, if I were a police officer driving the wrong way down a one-way street without my lights or siren on, I probably wouldn't expect all of the on-coming traffic to kindly get out of my way. And then later, when I had gotten myself turned around and was going the proper direction on the road, I would give some sort of signal before making a left turn out of the right turn lane and cutting off a car that had the right-of-way.
And while we're on the subject of driving let me mention the SUV driver who briefly followed me on my way to work today. Apparently, my 35 mph clip through Forest Park was a bit too slow for this Expedition driver, because she chose to gun past me as soon as the road opened up. I'm sure she burnt a gallon of gas in the process, but she did get past me. But then we came to the road construction. Now, I was under the impression, gleaned primarily from television commercials that show SUVs scaling mountains and driving up vertical rock faces, that SUVs were pretty tough. But apparently the Expedition is not tough at all. Because this driver had to come to a full stop for all four of the spots in the road where the construction crew and made a cut through the asphalt and filled it in with gravel. Now, these can be a bit rough in my Echo, so I usually take my foot off the gas as I go over them and coast over at about 25-30 mph. But the Ford Expedition can't compete with my Toyota Echo in this category, because it must be stopped before preceding over rough ground at approximately 5 mph. Now why would you pay $40k for one of these things?
Posted by on 8 August 2003 at 8:39 AM
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I told you, SUV's are a combination of pure evil and stupidity.
Posted by jim on 8 August 2003 - 12:09 PM
Oh, I agree with you Jim. Just offering another example.
Posted by david on 8 August 2003 - 2:53 PM