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  1. #1
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    South King County drivers (washington state)

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    Well, a few weeks ago, I told you about the gravel trucks who harrassed and terrified us.
    Yesterday on our way to Flaming Geyser State Park, we had to go along another highway with gravel trucks. Every one of them was very conscientious and careful.. However, at one point, a pickup truck decided to gun his engine and pass us across the double yellow line on a curve. Who do you suppose was going the other way towards us? Another double gravel truck. He blasted his horn at the pickup truck who sped madly off.

    Then when we were leaving the park, in single file along a peaceful country road
    (with signs on it that says "Caution, Bicycles" )
    some lovely gentleman on a MOTORCYCLE yelled at us "you AH's get the F off the road!!!"
    we were very impressed with his vocabulary. I was surprised myself because most motorcyclists seem to be particularly sensitive and understanding (really) to the plight of human powered bikes. owell.
    Mimi Team TE BIANCHISTA
    for six tanks of gas you could have bought a bike.

  2. #2
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    that is surprising! I find that motorcycles are the most polite, and almost always nod or wave and give me the ENTIRE lane when they pass. Even though they could easily just share the lane as they pass.

    Maybe he'd had a run-in with a gravel truck earlier in the day?

    People do what they do. Maybe he was just an AH.
    "If Americans want to live the American Dream, they should go to Denmark." - Richard Wilkinson

 

 

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