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RE: SLOW POKERS
by Ken Lewis
November 22, 2004
Monday
I must admit, I drive like a turtle
sometimes, especially when I head to work in the morning. Often
I leave home at 4:30 am, my lower digestive track has not awakened
yet and I fear if I should have an accident that my Spiderman
Underoos may not be as fresh as they should be at the ER. Although
there is a near empty highway at that time in the morn, I choose
to ease my way to town because I see the Side-Hill Gougers that
pop out and cars in the ditch from the hurried drivers a few
hours earlier. The drivers that annoy me are the ones that get
right on my bumper even when I am doing 50. When did leaving
one car length for every 50 miles an hour become an acceptable
safe driving practice? Do these people have a secret road system
the rest of us have not found yet? If there is a Bat Cave, I
want to know. Heaven forbid a person should reach Wolf Point
4 car lengths late on this grueling road trip, some of us do
not have a pit crew and relief driver at mile 5 to spare us fatigue!
It is about mile 5 when I have to slap myself and pour hot coffee
in my lap, while screaming come-on Ken you can do it Man. I think
it's time for rest-stops every 2 miles, with restrooms and bran
muffins for those of us who just cannot keep up to Ketchikan's
fast pace.
Ken Lewis
Ketchikan, AK - USA
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