Ferrari Mailing List: Re: Ferrari Digest, Vol 6, Issue 35

[Ken Rentiers (rentiers]

Steve:

I got to Texas back in 1978.  After color TV, but before Algore  
invented the internet and global warming. Soon I was going out for  
dinner with some friends; we met at someone's house. On the way out  
the door I am asked if I want a "go-cup".

"What is a go-cup?"

Turns out it was a drink in a plastic cup to have while you were on  
your way to dinner. See, Texas had no law against drinking and  
driving. The law specified that you could not drive drunk. But there  
was nothing against sipping a cool one on the commute home.

This was back in the days when citizens were still assumed to have  
some semblance of personal responsibility. Before point .08,and  
Hysterical Mothers Against Anything Remotely Construed As Fun.

Over the holidays I drove through California. The roads are riddled  
with intrusive lighted signs advising drivers to call and report any  
drunk drivers. Of course, anyone who has gone too heavy on the  
cologne is going to blow .08, beer or no beer, and now the populace  
are being enlisted as snitches.

It sucks. I hate the Nanny State. All Osama and friends have to do is  
wait. We are pissing away America completely unaided by outside  
interference. Am I in favor of drunk driving- hell no. Do I think  
there are any less drunks out there in WussWorld then there were in  
manly  prehistory?

Hell no.

ken


On Jan 20, 2007, at 3:33 PM, BRIGANDBAR [at] aol.com wrote:

> Ken:
>
> Too many damn Yankees (you know, not everyone who has moved in,  
> just those
> who have moved to TX because they weren't happy at home and then  
> spend all of
> their time trying to change it with their damned "this isn't the  
> way we used
> to  do it back home in "X
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