Fishes and : Bumper Stickers

[Carol]

Anne Squires wrote:
> If you want to see some crazy, aggressive drivers you should see how people drive in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina.  When they merge into traffic or change lanes a flashing signal doesn't mean, "Let me in please," it means, "Here I come, ready or not." Actually, strike that, you are lucky if the other driver even signals.  And I thought drivers in Atlanta (near where I live) were aggressive until I recently drove through NC.  Wow, what a difference imho.

Carol responds:
How things change! When I was in North Carolina ages ago (I was twenty or so at the time), North Carolina drivers signaled to indicate that the driver in front of them was about to make a right turn. It was a chain reaction. You, the driver, turned on your signal, too, so that everyone behind you knew to slow down. Then, when the driver or drivers had turned, you turned your own signal off (if you remembered). It was probably a dangerous practice, since discontinued(?), but it was intended as a courtesy. I also remember that my (then) husband got a warning but not a ticket for turning right on red; the policeman saw our Arizona plates and said that he knew right on red was legal in Arizona but it was illegal in NC. Maybe courtesy among both drivers and police has declined since then.

Anyway, the most aggressive drivers I know of are on the California freeways, which I will not drive under any circumstances. Fortunately, my sister and brother-in-law are used to them, so I have transportation when I go there.

Carol, guessing that Tucson drivers are about average in terms of courtesy