Reader Addendums to the
JGSO 9004
standards.
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Rebecca's proposed addendum(s) to the JGSO9004 driving section(1/12/99):
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People who drive 10 or more mph under the speed limit should have their license suspended for a day. We know they would comply, if they drive so slow out of fear of exceeding the limit, surely they will obey this rule out of fear as well.
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If you can't figure out how to drive and talk at the same time, GET OFF THE ROAD! This applies to cell phone operations and conversations with passengers.
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When you are first in line at a red light, you know you're the first to go...pay attention!
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You really won't get there faster just because you didn't let one single car in front of you.
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Being stopped at a stop sign is not the time to search for something. Pull over if you must dig in your purse/apply make-up/slap your kid/retrieve that all-vital-can't-possibly-go-on-without-it-right-now-whatever-it-is.
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Do you really think that driving over those speed bumps with one side on level ground is good? (Editor's note: I do that - it doesn't shake the car as much.
I also don't slow down - I go the speed limit like I always did).
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Get directions or view a map before beginning your journey. Please don't penalize me (the one behind your lost self) by making me slow to a stop before you decide that this isn't where you want to turn after all. And turn off that turn signal unless you intend to use it in the next few seconds.
Hmm, maybe we both need to mellow out? Nah!
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Thank you Bruce for the following comment: (2/1/96)
You are quite mistaken to say that women with large behinds are in
violation of your personal standards list.
A lushly upholstered pair of female hips is quite an
eye-catcher to many men. Personally, I've always thought that the
current trend in the fashion industry towards getting women to look
like twelve year old boys is a sop to some latent pederastic trait
in the minds of the top designers. I pride myself on my civilized
treatment of women, but a shapely, steatopygous derriere sends a
lightning bolt right past my higher faculties straight into the
animal portions of the brain. This is what the country song means
that says, "she's got curves in places other women don't even have
places!" (Editor's Note: Bruce, don't you mean "callipygous"?).