"Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy" <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Dragonlady" <dragonladynospam@cableone.net> wrote in
> news:fru74u$hvv$1@registered.motzarella.org:
>
>>>>>>>>>>> Actually, I expect the traffic alone is good enough
>>>>>>>>>>> reason for you to avoid southern California. I remember
>>>>>>>>>>> the trip out of Andy's to do some last minute Christmas
>>>>>>>>>>> shopping, many years ago.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hey, that's what cabs are for.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> It's a pity we didn't take one.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So why didn't you?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> You insisted on driving.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *LOL* I was talking about when Andy and Susan were visiting
>>>>>> you. You obviously weren't!
>>>>>>
>>>>> I was referring the Christmas shopping trip on a visit to
>>>>> Omaha, many years ago. I recall you bitching and moaning,
>>>>> endlessly, about the brutal, heavy traffic on Dodge Ave. And
>>>>> I recall looking down one direction, and seeing two cars
>>>>> coming, and looking the other direction, and seeing one car
>>>>> coming. Wimp.
>>>>
>>>> *LOL* I remember that trip, though I don't recall bitching
>>>> and moaning "endlessly".
>>>
>>> Perhaps it just seemed like it.
>>>
>>>> However, you want to remember I was living
>>>> in the wilds of South Dakota at the time. Two cars at once
>>>> *was* heavy traffic for me then!
>>>>
>>> I recall offering to drive, but you said no.
>>>
>> Don't remember that, not that that means anything. However,
>> after riding in a car with Mom, you can hardly blame me for
>> being leary of letting anyone else drive.
>
> At least your head was harder than the windshield.
I never actually made contact with a windshield. That was you. I think I
was the one screaming "Step on the brake, step on the brake!" while we went
through the ditch and the fence. That's the only one I can remember being
in, but I know you were in more of them. I'm surprised you can ride in a
car at all!
>
>> I almost put
>> permanent handprints in Justin's car door driving up the
>> mountain in Colorado, and Sean is always telling me I don't have
>> to hang on to the car door when he's driving.
>>
> Californians have just about the lowest accident-per-mile-driven
> rate in the US. So there.
How much of that is because the traffic is so heavy you can't move faster
than 20 miles an hour most of the time?