[lit-ideas] Re: Straight ahead is the front zone...
- From: Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 4 Jul 2004 14:06:15 -0400
changes to read = changes to red.
d'oh.
Proof that I should return to the Critique of Cynical Reason. God damn those
Chapters people. Do you know how long it took them to ship me this god damn
book? (which I meant to read over a year ago?) Blah.
Erin
Quoting Erin Holder <erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Okay, well, fine. I also failed for speeding.
>
> But it was only _technically_ speeding.
>
> See, you know how there's that unwritten rule that when making a left turn,
> on
> an amber light, the first two cars waiting to turn are allowed to go before
> the
> light changes to read completely?
>
> Okay, well you might not know that unwritten rule if you don't live in
> Canada,
> but here in Toronto it's common knowledge.
>
> Anyway, there's another unwritten rule where if you're going over the speed
>
> limit by 10/km, that it's only "technically" speeding, but not really
> speeding
> speeding, that is, you won't get a speeding ticket for it.
>
> Apparently 10/kn over the speed limit during a _driving test_ however, is
> considered speeding in every possible sense of the term. Nobody told me
> this.
>
> So it was the judgment call and the technical speeding thing that did me in.
>
>
> And I totally hear ya on the mirror checking. I made a point of doing that
>
> too. Of course, if you're "technically speeding" or "impeding traffic" it
> doesn't really matter if you check your mirrors.
>
> Oh yeah, and my parking break didn't work. Who the hell uses that thing
> anyway? I didn't even know what a parking break _was_ until I found out that
>
> mine didn't work, during that final driving test, of course. Does anyone out
>
> there really use that thing? What does it do anyway?
>
>
> Erin
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