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

["Eric Itzel" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Most of the time I drive with the running lights on, but not the
headlights.

I always find it alarming that when I roll up next to a Hummer H2 or
another
one of those behemoth vehicles in my D that all I see are the lugnuts of
the
wheels. Kind've scary to think of the possibilities...

Eric Itzel

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <fhudkins@xxxxxxx>
To: <DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [DMCForum] Re: Are we that hard to see?


> 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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