You forgot riots and drive by shootings.
:)
Peter S
----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Thomas <vafred@erols.com>
To: Atwell Haines <carbuff@nac.net>
Cc: Simmons, Reid W <reid.w.simmons@intel.com>; <Laura.G@141.com>; Spitfire
Mail List <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: California Stop?
>
> Now how can anyone ever be jealous, of "Earthquakes", "Forest Fires" that
destroy
> miles upon miles, constant floods, and the biggest fault of them all "San
> Andreas", I think there was a song a few years back = "Slip Sliding Away"
=
> jealous I don't think so.
>
> Atwell Haines wrote:
>
> > At 12:01 PM 6/1/99 -0700, Simmons, Reid W wrote:
> > >
> > >Gee, and here I thought I had coined the phrase "California Stop".
Here in
> > >Oregon I use the term to refer to those drivers who accelerate upon
seeing a
> > >yellow light, and REALLY FLOOR IT if the light is "orange" (turning
from
> > >yellow to red). This phenomenon seems to have been imported along with
the
> > >influx of immigrants from that state directly "south of our border". :)
> >
> > Here on the 'right coast' (as opposed to the 'left coast') we use the
> > phrase California Stop to indicate a mellow, laid-back kinda
> > coasting-thru-the-intersection kind of manuever. Sort of seems that us
> > stuffy-always-in-a-hurry Easterners are jealous of the California
> > lifestyle. {Well not all of us...}
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Atwell Haines
> > '79 Spitfire (with 57 HP, mellow and laid back is Normal) (Manual brakes
> > help too!)
>
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