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[RC] Vehicle safety (was: I couldn't afford not to) - k s swigart

Tori said:
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Seriously though, as much as I enjoy driving my SLK
?I'll take my truck as first choice to drive anywhere
?just for the safety factor. Everything else be damned.

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Tori has always told me that the reason she doesn't want me to drive when I 
have my car is that it doesn't have air conditioning (another "economy" feature 
of it), and here I find out it is because she doesn't feel safe it it, even 
though _I_ don't drive it like its a sports car (because it isn't so I couldn't 
even if I wanted to--a sports car is not an economy commuter car so none of my 
calculation of savings for commuter cars applies to a Mercedes SLK).
?
It's only when Tori goes on a ride along with me off-roading (more accurately 
dirt roading)?in my truck that she has to hold on for dear life.? It took us 
half the time to negotiate the Main Divide when I was driving MY truck than the 
time Tori was driving her truck.? We were still going faster when I was driving 
than when she drove even afterl we hooked the porta potty on a trailer to the 
back of the my truck.? After all, by then we were coming DOWN.? And all I can 
say is I am glad it was a rented porta potty, because I wouldn't want to have 
been the one to have to clean it out afterwards.

kat
Orange County, Calif.
:)


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