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Jul. 25th, 2002 12:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chaobellBelatedly, other Sarah:
I once witnessed the exact opposite of this phenomenon.
I was driving home from Circuit Shitty for lunch, down a road reduced to one lane in either direction by construction.
In front of me was a car with Alberta license plates, doing 20 in a 45. A trail of cars stretched back behind me as far as the eye could see, unable to do much of anything but plod along and grumble.
I eyed the speed limit sign as it crawled by. I eyed my speedometer. 20 mph ~= 45 kph.
I wanted to lean out the window and yell "MILES! MILES PER HOUR, NOT KILOMETERS! MOVE YER ASS, EH!" I did, however, manage to restrain myself. But I had to wonder--had these people actually driven all the way to Houston from Canada, doing roughly half the speed limit the whole way? And if so, how long had it taken them? And how had they managed to keep from getting shot by the typical redneck pickup driver on the freeway once they hit Texas?
I once witnessed the exact opposite of this phenomenon.
I was driving home from Circuit Shitty for lunch, down a road reduced to one lane in either direction by construction.
In front of me was a car with Alberta license plates, doing 20 in a 45. A trail of cars stretched back behind me as far as the eye could see, unable to do much of anything but plod along and grumble.
I eyed the speed limit sign as it crawled by. I eyed my speedometer. 20 mph ~= 45 kph.
I wanted to lean out the window and yell "MILES! MILES PER HOUR, NOT KILOMETERS! MOVE YER ASS, EH!" I did, however, manage to restrain myself. But I had to wonder--had these people actually driven all the way to Houston from Canada, doing roughly half the speed limit the whole way? And if so, how long had it taken them? And how had they managed to keep from getting shot by the typical redneck pickup driver on the freeway once they hit Texas?
