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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (24334)	5/12/1999 6:30:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 71178

I don't know how you guys do the freeway thing. We drove up to Portland for a 4:15 Dr appt, and were an hour late. There was nothing stopping our side of the freeway, just an accident on the other side, and I guess it set up a blunting forcefield on our side. Gawkers. MJ was flipping out. She doesn't like humans either. Dr had gone home. After we ate dinner, at 8:30 we headed back down the freeway and I got off luckily at the top of a hill, seeing it was piled up afore'st us to the horizon. It was the same wreck; I-5 was closed for 12 hours. Whe we drove up for my last foot operation, someone closed the freeway for five hours, and we had to drive up the shoulder to an exit; cringing at the expected tingly impact of police bullets, while the car decided that much stop and go clutching would make it overheat. I think, and I'm pretty much serious, that they need to upgrade the removal and diverting contingencies. Like those tanks they put blades on the front of, to shove the other blown up tanks out of the way. The police get to take pictures, and then it's off the shoulder you go. I'm serious. You get in the goddam wreck, it's your problem. I see one nearly every time I go up there. Every time. I know who's out there; I'm constantly avoiding them. I honestly think it's worse here than anywhere I've lived; especially California, where I think it's been bred out. People follow at a car length, and never think of any contingency; and never signal, and never tie stuff down, and talk on the phone, and think it's not frosty, and..... oooh. We agree it's not for us. It was a completely wasted evening, except of course for the romance. We talked about recipes!! Zowie. We are way too important humans to be stuck in that crap. I want something done about it, like a serious plague. The crashes are too slow, and not killing enough.