Fishes and : Bumper Stickers

[Barbara]

> Geoff:
> Actually, this is two different things in a way. Re the fish badge, my 
> wife tends to think that I drive fairly briskly - I have a suspicion that 
> we European drivers are a bit brisker than our North America cousins... My wife thinks this is mainly a man thing
> although I think I could amass enough evidence to disprove the fact.

> On the question of personalised plates, I think they're another way of 
> showing off to impress somebody and, in my opinion, an expensive 
> waste of money. My thoughts about their identification is that we all 
> do the odd daft thing when we're driving - like a friend of mine who 
> tried to change a CD while he was going and drove up a lamp post....
>
> If I am going to make an idiot of myself I prefer to do so in a less 
> recognisable way.
> :-|
Ivogun (Barbara)

Peace. I tell people too that I will not put bumper stickers (or a fish) on my car because my driving sometimes upsets other drivers. OUCH It is so bad that my husband insisted recently on driving home after his hospitalization. But I agree with your wife in general about male drivers and speed, but it's young men who as a group who are the worst. (Insurance statistics bear that out.)  Having said that, I live in South Florida which in a recent poll was voted as having the rudest  drivers in the US. We also have the most dangerous intersection (by far) in the US too. Fast and aggressive driving is common here.