[DMCForum] Re: Are we that hard to see?

["erikgeerdink" <erikgeerdink@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, I'm tired from just reading that post.  Get me a cup of coffee 
while you are at it.  sheeesh

--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, fhudkins@xxxx wrote:
> I always drive with my lights on, and always have, even when I was 
driving a 
> white Plymouth Duster, which is hard to miss!
> 
> And speaking of hard-to-miss, it apparently is IMPOSSIBLE for some 
to miss, if 
> you're a five-foot-nothing 20-something girl possessing assisted-
blonde hair, 
> the precancerous sheen of one too many tanning sessions, and a 
heated cell-
> phone conversation going on, while driving your 3-month-old Toyota 
4-Runner, 
> the steering wheel of which you can't see over. I got "merged" 
into by a pre-
> med student. I'm sure she'll go far.
> 
> "All right, let's install the new heart. No, wait ... my cell 
phone's ringing."
> 
> [beep ... beep ... beep ... 
beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]
> 
> "Uh oh."
> 
> By the way: anybody find it interesting that a "near-miss" is not 
a collision? 
> After all, she nearly missed ...
> 
> Time for the fifth cup of coffee...
> 
> Farrar
> 
> > I completely agree Erik, I've had some scary moments driving my 
car 
> > around Boston, but then used to always drive with my full lights 
on 
> > to make myself most visible, anyone else do this??
> > 
> > By full I dont' mean the blinding middle lights, just the ones 
you 
> > use at night when someone is coming towards you, if you know 
what I 
> > mean! I never know which are called main beams and which are 
called 
> > full beams, anyone care to explain this one to me? And no, I'm 
not 
> > trying to start that thread about lightbulbs :)
> > 
> > John
> > PS Erik, so have you put in a good word for me at your company 
for an 
> > IT job early next year??!!
> > 
> > --- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "erikgeerdink" 
<erikgeerdink@xxxx> 
> > wrote:
> > > Ok, why is it that people don't see a frinking silver exotic 
car 
> > > when they are driving?  What the hell!  I drove the D to work 
today 
> > > and yesterday since its nice and sunny here (still cold 
though) and 
> > > i swear, at least 6 people almost broadsided me.  you have to 
> > wonder 
> > > what they are thinking once they realize they almost hit a 
delorean!
> > > 
> > > 4512...scared
> > 
> > 
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