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AG: Principles of Traffic Law
I went for two rides today and didn't have time to write, so I'm appending some undigested notes. It was a split ride, really. I went to the Farmers' Markets in the morning, came home and took a nap, then went to Aldi for groceries. This is the second time I've split a ride, and I plan to do it again next Saturday: markets in the morning and the Pierceton Tomato Festival in the afternoon. My first split ride was to Pierceton Days. This time I'll take enough water for the entire trip; the only outdoor drinking fountain in Pierceton wasn't turned on this spring, and neither the library nor the Senior Center is open on Saturday. And the Oddfellows Cafe closes after lunch. The split ride solves both the long-ride problem and the figure-eight problem. When I take a long ride, I have to skip my nap, and I'm not worth much on the following day. And whenever I planned to drop off something at home and then go somewhere else, I invariably chickened out and stayed home -- until I thought of *planning* to eat lunch and go to bed. On to the undigested notes: --------------------------------------------------------------------- Folks have a terrible time learning the rules, because they try to learn unrelated rules covering each of thousands of situations. It's a lot easier to learn the principles used to build the rules; then you can derive them as required. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Traffic law is intended to get everybody to his destination without endangering people or property, and with a minimum of getting into each other's way. The first traffic law, on which all others are but commentary, is "Thou shalt make thyself easy to predict." --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two objects can't occupy the same space at the same time, and considerable damage will occur if they try. Nearly all rules concern themselves with trying to avoid collisions. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Two bodies travelling along the same line are much less likely to collide if they are going in the same direction. --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ The above message is a Usenet post. I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site. |
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