30 — Friday, September 4, 1998 — North Shore News
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AUTO

Veet rubber burning Buddy

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ing is suppose to make Mr.

OK, so you’re not
hiceding last week’s
warning about the high
hazard of driving this
long weekend. So be it.

There’s nothing quite like
bursting off the North Shore
on a road trip to explore that
which is beautiful B.C. And
getting there is at least half
the fun, or should be.

There are several sections
of many destination high-
ways, the Sea-to-Sky
(Highway 99), Highway 101
up the Sunshine Coast or
even more easterly parts of
the Trans Canada Highway 1

’ where passing is restricted
and/or impossible.

In these single-lane, no
passing situations cars invari-
ably bunch up. Often, too,
we'll see. Jack Speed anxiously
riding someore's tail, letting,
all who care to notice that
he’s outta-there at the next

To help remind. North
Shore motorists about these
topics, the Insurance Corp. of
B.C.’s (ICBC) ‘summer. stu-
dents have put together an
information package: which is
now available at approximately
24 auto dealerships in North
and West Vancouver. cha

The purpose of the package
is to give the person purchasing
the vehicle information about

Slow drive faster.

And I underszand that
Jack Speed the tailgater is
ready to jump at the first
opportunity to pass Joc Slow,
leven understand Buddy
Bumper, the guy who tail-
gates Jack Speed the tailgater
in an effort to follow him
through on the first chance to
pass Joe Slow.

I don’t understand Stupid
Idiot, the guy that tailgates -
Buddy Bumper the guy who.
tailgates Jack Spced the origi-
naf tailgater. I don’t under-
stand the chain of railgaters
who really have nowhere to
go. If you have to drive the
speed as set by Joe Slow, why
not spread out a bit? You're
following too close, Idiots?
You’re a multi-car pile up just
waiting to make the evening
news. It’s just dumb.
Pointless, really. Takes ali of
the fun out of the half the
fun of getting there.

It would help, of course, if
Joe Slow would check that
rear-view mirror once in a
while, notice the chain of
anxious and/or idict tail-
gaters and do them all a
favor: Use those occasional
roadside secticas labelled
“Pull Out.” That way, Joe
Slow could keep ’er slow and
steady —- because one should-
n’t overdrive one’s abilities in
order to please the masses —
yet allow other drivers to pass
when the opportunity arises.

Then there are the multi-
lane passing areas, where all
hell has been known to break
loose and things can start to

ICBC’s optional insurance, tips
to prevent auto crime and
material to remind the driver
about various vehicle safety
devices such as seat belts, air
bags, head rests and child safe-
ty seats.
developed by Sapaz Soydencfad
az Seydeneja
and Aaron Couitshanie — two
summer students working on
the North’ Shore, who are a
part of the corporation’s Youth
mployment Initiative (YEI).
The ICBC YEI is a job
training, ccurse that dramatical-
ly increases the B.C, govern-
ment’s commitment to youth

- employment.

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resembie a, um, British
Columbian Fire Drill full of
Idiots and Bumper Buddies...
Personal message to Joc
Slow: Hey Joe, you notice
how sometimes your single
lane road opens up for a long
straight while and more lanes
appear? Please do not take
this opportunity to speed up
just because you feel safer on

this new wide-open stretch.
You’ve entered a passing area
cleverly designed to let the
faster drivers get to the front
of the fine. When the passing
lane(s) end, a new order is
achieved with the Siow family
in the back of the line where
they can’t bother the Speed
family, and vice versa. All the
Idiots in between have

: / -

thinned out, though Buxaper
Buddies remain that way, it’s

also the law. Road signs that
read “slower traffic keep

_ miserably slow speed until

right” or “keep right except
to pass” are regulatory:signs,
not bits of advice.- Those
signs are for you, Mr. Slow.
Don’t you feel special?’ ©

And who wants Buddy
Bumper behind them any-
way?

Be safc.

genetic I’m sure.

So, Joe, see that big, fat,
multi-laned road ahead? Ger
your car into the right-hand
lane and continue at your

everyone in the mad chain

behind you has gone past. It's
common courtesy, Joe. It’s

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