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<blockquote data-quote="Warrior Poet" data-source="post: 2802444" data-attributes="member: 1057">Reminds me of the stickers Y.T. carries in Stephenson's Snow Crash.&nbsp; She's harpooned on to Hiro's car and he's trying to shake her as she uses his car to tow her to her delivery destination.&nbsp; He tries a move.&nbsp; She slaps a sticker on the window, with the words on the sticky side so it can be read from the inside, that reads, &quot;LAME&quot;.&nbsp; When he tries a second maneuver to shake her loose, she adds another sticker:&nbsp; &quot;THAT WAS STALE&quot;.Brilliant.I keep thinking that if driving requirements were tougher, it would make for better drivers, but I guess that's probably not true, huh?&nbsp; Driving tests every two years, both written and operative?&nbsp; Parking tests as part of the operative test (I had to parallel park, first thing, as part of my driving test.&nbsp; If you didn't pass the parallel parking portion, you failed the whole test.&nbsp; My test was administered by a Texas State Trooper, mirrored sunglasses and drill sargeant's hat and all.&nbsp; I was nervous.&nbsp; Passed, though!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> )?&nbsp; Required defensive driving courses?&nbsp; Required inclement weather driving courses?It's all a pipe-dream, isn't it?*sigh*Warrior Poet</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Warrior Poet, post: 2802444, member: 1057"] Reminds me of the stickers Y.T. carries in Stephenson's [i]Snow Crash[/i]. She's harpooned on to Hiro's car and he's trying to shake her as she uses his car to tow her to her delivery destination. He tries a move. She slaps a sticker on the window, with the words on the sticky side so it can be read from the inside, that reads, "LAME". When he tries a second maneuver to shake her loose, she adds another sticker: "THAT WAS STALE". Brilliant. I keep thinking that if driving requirements were tougher, it would make for better drivers, but I guess that's probably not true, huh? Driving tests every two years, both written and operative? Parking tests as part of the operative test (I had to parallel park, first thing, as part of my driving test. If you didn't pass the parallel parking portion, you failed the whole test. My test was administered by a Texas State Trooper, mirrored sunglasses and drill sargeant's hat and all. I was nervous. Passed, though! :D )? Required defensive driving courses? Required inclement weather driving courses? It's all a pipe-dream, isn't it? *sigh* Warrior Poet [/QUOTE]

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