[OT] Orwell is alive and well in Canada

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 05:56:06PM -0800, Bill Campbell took 28 lines to write:
>> On Thu, Dec 01, 2005, Net Llama! wrote:
>> >On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>> >> You and yours would be welcome in Pittsburgh. You could buy more house
>> >> for less money and still have money left from the sale of your Ottawa
>> >> home.
>> >
>> >Yea, but Pittsburgh has the equivalent of the same thing.  Its called way
>> >too many elderly people driving at half the speed limit.
>> 
>> Speeding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike is difficult as the road is more like
>> a tank trap than a highway.  If you're not wearing your seat belts, you're
>> likely to be bounced out of your seat.
>
>Truly. The moment you cross the border into West Virginia, the road is
>smooth and quiet. That *always* surprises me -- I wonder what happened
>to the car. ;-)

The worst time I had was coming back into Pennsylvania from a race at
Mid-Ohio.  I was towing with a rather ancient F-350 dualie, old enough that
it didn't have seat belts.  I actually ended up bounced off the seat,
hanging onto the steering wheel and one leg in the stairwell (I installed
seat belts as soon as we got back to the shop :-).

Then there was the time my truck broke down on the turnpike, coming back
from a race.  They had to tow the truck and trailer separately, and the PA
Turnpike charged the maximum toll for the trailer in addition to the toll
for the truck since there was no ticket for the trailer -- as though it
could have gotten there by itself.

Bill
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