The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #64098   Message #1045799
Posted By: Midchuck
01-Nov-03 - 10:49 AM
Thread Name: BS: 4 X 4's
Subject: RE: BS: 4 X 4's
What is really fun is living in snowy country, but relatively close to metropolitan areas, so that lots of skiers/snowboarders/snowshoers/snowmobilers/common drunks drive up from the cities for their winter sport.

They all seem to have SUVs. And they all seem to believe that having 4 wheel drive means you can go just as fast on a snowy highway as you can on a dry one. (It doesn't. All modern cars have 4 wheel brakes, so a 4 wheel drive car can't stop any better than I 2 wheel drive car, for example.)

They will often blast past you on the road, momentarily blinding you with the snow they kick up. Then you see them in a ditch a few miles later on, and they want you to stop and help pull them out.

I don't stop. But I wave. Usually I keep all my fingers extended when I wave, but sometimes only one.

I guess I'm not as nice a person as I should be. But then, I'm not a Christian, which means I don't have the Christian obligation to be nice even when people aren't nice to me. You've noticed how that's the way all Christians are, haven't you...

Peter.