Comments on: Special Automotive Edition

By: BlogFreeSpringfield

BlogFreeSpringfield — Sun, 12 Feb 2006 00:08:00 +0000

Anon – Xtreme gas would be TOTALLY OUTRAGEOUS. At least it will be if it’s anything like the Xtreme green ketchup that Burger King was promoting with their kids’ meals.

Jeff – I don’t have a problem with your taking calculated risks while driving, as long as my family’s safety doesn’t figure into your equation.

I have to say, in all fairness, that “Larry Leadfoot” is a classic, although I found “Alice” a bit too derivative of the seminal driver safety snuff film: “Wheels of Tragedy.” Still, the critics were right-on when they dubbed you the James Dean of the Highway Saftey Foundation studio. Wait a minute, didn’t James Dean die in a …. well, nevermind.

Dan

By: The Abstract Prosaic

The Abstract Prosaic — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 00:51:00 +0000

Dan, it’s a calculated risk. I freely admit I’m one of those “jerks” who constantly change lanes to get past slower drivers. If that allows me to beat even one red light, that’s 90 seconds I don’t have to waste sitting at a red light.

Remember a post you did a few months back about the supposed “epidemic” of red-light running? You got a comment that went along the lines of: “Red means stop. Green means go. Yellow means go faster.”

That was me. You also might remember me from such driver’s ed films as “Alice’s Adventures through
the Windshield Glass” and “The Decapitation of Larry Leadfoot.”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 14:42:00 +0000

I’m surprised one of the gasolines isn’t marketed as “Xtreme!”

Or better yet, a choice between “Extreme!” and “Xtreme!”

My suggestion is just don’t shop there.

By: BlogFreeSpringfield

BlogFreeSpringfield — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 13:13:00 +0000

Jeff

I admire your devotion to your family. It would be a shame if in your haste to get home, your life is cut even shorter.

Dan

By: The Abstract Prosaic

The Abstract Prosaic — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:27:00 +0000

Dan said: To come to a complete stop, apparently, would cost them a few seconds that they just can't afford to waste.

Damn straight, Dan. Life is short. The less I'm on the road, the more time I get with my family.