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Subject: [Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Sailors Hate Power Boaters #3
From: r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor)
Date: Wed Oct 8 18:39:11 2008
References: <25F85E88-34CC-46B8-86E5-EE51236C8D63@comcast.net> <4cfa589b0810081512g31e2404ag7210a8a9e95a08d2@mail.gmail.com>

Yea gods!  Prius drivers...  who'd have thought it.  I had been  
thinking about buying a bike but maybe I'd better not.  :-)

Regards,

Dick
off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please.





On Oct 8, 2008, at 6:12 PM, Adam Bridge wrote:

> As a cyclist I have this experience quite frequently . . . but I'm
> usually too terrified or too busy seeking somewhere safe to even THINK
> of snapping a photo.
>
> If I did, though, I'd catch Mommy Dearest at the wheel of her black
> Escalade, yacking on her cell phone while the kiddies watch DVDs from
> their car seats in the 2nd row. OR it's a guy in his Prius. I don't
> know what it is about them but man, I treat Prius drivers like they're
> all drunk because they seem never to give up any inch of road they
> seem to feel they own. Shuddering...
>
> Adam
>
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 5:13 AM, Richard S. Taylor
> <r.s.taylor_post@comcast.net> wrote:
>> Apropos of a couple of comments I received from kayakers, how would  
>> you like
>> to have this guy bearing down on you?
>>
>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/rtaylor/PICKS/2008_PAD/300_1148.jpg.html
>>
>> or
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/3fqakr
>>
>> In fairness, this boat did slow down radically as he went by us  
>> about 50
>> feet to port, sparing us his four-foot wake, but why get up so much  
>> speed in
>> a channel when there are smaller boats around?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dick
>> off-list comments to r.s.taylor at comcast dot net please.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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In reply to: Message from r.s.taylor_post at comcast.net (Richard S. Taylor) ([Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Sailors Hate Power Boaters #3)
Message from abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge) ([Leica] BOATING PAD #14 - Why Sailors Hate Power Boaters #3)