Ragthyme@aol.com wrote:
>
> ::chuckle::
>
> Hokay, hokay. Let's get down and dirty here. ;)
>
> 1) Although technically an immigrant (that's 'furriner' here in Virginia), I
> have been here since I was 12 ... which means, of course, that I LEARNED TO
> DRIVE HERE. ::duck::
>
> 2) I have spent most of my time in the States in Virginia, North Carolina,
> Florida and Alabama. However, I did live for several years in Boston, MA and
> near Utica, NY. Aside from a few of the larger, less-populous western
> states, I've driven just about everywhere here.
>
> Those little factoids aside, I suppose I wrote that mud-in-yer-eye piece
> conglomerating Americans all together; in reality, different parts applied
> more or less to different regions.
>
> You can't beat a Southerner for outright forgetting he's in a car. I've
> almost expected a few of them to hoist the remote control, thinking they were
> on their sofas (that's couches for you yankEES, chesterfields for our
> friends in Canada, and divans or setees, for the folks back home.)
>
> For road-ownership mania, I'd give you a New Englander or New Yorker every
> time and Bob's yer uncle. (Translation: ...and make no mistake about it.)
>
> In my opinion, midwesterners are fiends for speed and fearnought driving, and
> for the superhuman belief in their car's safety.
>
> So, apologies to the Southerners on the list, and to those good drivers we
> have here (most of us, I believe), for any unintentional collateral damage
> that may have come your way. :)
>
> I must note, however, that for pure bloody-minded driving and absolute
> wretched rudeness, you have a long way to go to beat the French.
>
> Corey
> 75 MGB 'Rags'
Don't get me started on the French, I worked for them for one year (as
long as I could stand) and I would edit your last sentence by deleting
the word "driving" and adding "ness" onto "bloody-minded." Although in
my experience, those words applied mostly to the French MEN, the French
women I have met (including my grandmother) have all been sweet. Oops,
now that I think about it, there was one extremely rude young
Frenchwoman that I met in June in the "Punch and Judy", a pub in Covent
Garden in London. She was tending bar and... oh, forget it, it's not
worth telling. (Can that serve for LBC content, since I was in England
for MG International at Silverstone?)
Your comments are generally true, although I have seen each and all of
those behaviours, to various degrees, everywhere I have lived and
drived.
David Littlefield
Houston, TX
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