mzal@pegasus.UUCP (Mike Zaleski) (05/22/85)
This recent discussion on net.auto about whether drivers in
various parts of the country are courteous/crazy/whatever
remninds me of a conversation I had recently with someone
who moved to NJ from California. She claims (1) that people
out here drink much more than in California and (2) people in
California are much more mellow drivers because the weather there
is always nice so there is none of the spring/summer madness which
seems to infect many (particularly young) drivers to open the
windows, blast the radio, and speed off into the sunset.
As to my friend's qualifications to judge drinking habits of
the population at large, she works as a gogo dancer, so she does
get to see quite a number of them.
Anyway, its just food for thought. I've never driven in California,
so I have no opinion about its drivers. I feel quite at home with
everyone else out in the NY/NJ area, though.
-- "The Model Citizen" Mike^Z
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