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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 3273805" data-attributes="member: 24357">Night, first off glad to hear you are okay  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> , sorry to hear about your GRRM loses  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> Something about speed- few years back I was a friggin' speed demon on the roads, then I got a ticket (illegal lane change) and I went to traffic school.  The teacher explained speed to us this way (admittedly its not a 100% accurate, but it made sense to me)-You have to travel 60 miles so you travel at 60 mph and make it there in one hour. Or you could travel it at 30 mph and get there in 2 hours.Or at 45 mph and get there at 1 1/2 hours.At a speed of 58 mph you would get there in 1 3/4 hours.At 60 mph stopping distance is like 250', at 50 mph stopping distance is around 175' and at 30 mph its around 75' you can increase that for rain, road conditions, driver alertness, weight of car, and such.  When he told us this it really clicked in my head- is traveling fast worth the risk I am placing on others?  Am I truly saving any time?Your trip was made a little longer (by hours) trying to save a few extra minutes and it cost you a car.  My intention is to be preachy, it was just something that clicked when he told the class and I thought that it was something that you would understand.Drive carefully people, the speeding ante worth the possible lost time.</blockquote>

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