2/23/2004

The AARP Doesn't Respond

I guess the Advanced Age Revenue Pumps are too chicken to respond to my anti-old-people screeds. Maybe I was mumbling! Nothing out of the ordinary on the Driving Ancients front. I mean, you folk would get tired of hearing about how random old folk tied up a lane or two of traffic on the way to work. I manage to avoid it lots of days. Leave the house around 7am, while the old folk are just winding down from walking around the mall.

Had a couple of fossils "racing" in front of me on the way back from lunch, though. But it's like my grandpa told me many years ago, "35 is the limit, it's not as fast as you have to go. I'm comfortable at this speed."

More on that piece of wisdom later. It involves enforcement of "go with the flow" and minimum speed limits. Yeah, there are a couple of spots around town with minimum speed limits. Not nearly so rigorously enforced as the maximum, though. Odd, that. Probably because old people spit and die and stuff when you pull them over.