nuaty 8.1999 -

" ASI settle into 1999,

_ both me. and planet
“Eartha little older.and
“alittle wiser, P realize
ethat-there are some
“things PH just never

. understand. Like bone-,
heads,

Thar big dump ofsnow we -

had over the holiday’ was
“quite a lesson in humility. tor
this here scribe. J mean, for
rm Tve been churning outa
driving cohimalwith a “he
“safe” theme yet bere | sit week:
after week reiterating the
Sbviows. One wood dump ot
snow and it seen have 0
startall over trom the ve
beginning the: basics:
Surges fine) actually
enjoy picking on moron dri
vers whe just cant ged i right
Shut snow driving? 1S it such
atare accurrenee that any
“noble counsel goes out the
oavindowan favour of just phat
Stanacy? oe
~Tt’s snow, people, we get
some every vein We drive on
it for a couphe of days and
then the ran feturns an

Vancouver driving drudge
2" But boneheads continuc to
be boncheads.and [ve got
something te write about. for
inothervear, f
TP never understand 4X
and SUV Urivers who bomb
dong ara faily decent clip in
spite of the blainket-of snow all
around: These drivers seem °
oblivious to the fact every
other car inthe'ditch is a 4X4
or SUV. Just because you have
“four Wheels providing pow J
“for vour lite winter wonders
“laid drive doesi’t.mea
ean stop i
wheel-driv shave

va ruggeciness sie
valve OHC engi e:

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nv two:

th Shore New

signals

even dess so ifthe road is stip
pet to an
ow that Vara tite ok
and a ditth: wiser, Psimply
laugh at 4X45 in the diteh: t¢
de not offer assispinces T haugh
out foud and. carry oncin my
lithe car with its paltry awa:
wheel-drive. ;

Pil fever hnderseand tt :
vers who fil to cevognize th
everyone isin the same boat
when it coniés to snow dri
ving: When the going ts tough

and the car art handhny tol
avdlland the ruts in the wi

hither and dither and vou
kitackles are white and vour
tevtlyare clenched and vou
finally started saving pr.

>for the first time. in 17 vears,

oddvare that the driv

tront of vouvand thar driv cr
coming-ap tron that eros
road. are ithe same Precic

ments,

Ata time when courtesy ;
shot be at-an all ume high:
(dont understand whydri

versal: to notice how slowing
a bit and letting: fellow'dries,*

‘side into a sate p
prudent
nea few mor
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move, Or w.

sone poor

through ared'with: every?

intention of: stopping {save Yor

the fact that. he cartes
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drivers can't drive
WHERE.
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otany prov
cial compatriots by saving thi
Look, tlathind
drive and nore often than not
r milking to. vou when 1's
hey, bonehead Cs ustially
YOU in thar dN SOV tving
ta drive like a bat our or hell:
bur can’t figure out why no
one else i is,

‘Know

1 Pee seen voit,

Sbdemts “onrre fram
Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg or
Joronto.-You guys don't
jack, You know snow
and that roads and: tempera
tures sertar below cere that
the white stuffis detually

Has not is Some
dork with an out-of province
license plate
trying tang BOLLE AVSNOWY
Vancouver bill (th avs the: big
road that goes "ape by iin
ving the engine and.spy

snow tran the wheel:

who's desperately

the mei tonne,
J heard trom an
hdmontonian: a while t

who insisted he lived ona hill:
Apparently there is one hill in:

Edmontonstle said he reve
this hill every snowy dav He
telt hewasa geod snew dr

ver, One hilly some snows That

dogs not make hint a good

» show driver, itimakes hin an
sHe-ane

Edmontonian. The
ta crash inte in Edmonton:
oone tives in Edmonton:

Hineved out: heres |
Sheri, Compared the

You know, for the appar
tide of lomy BC snow.

‘drivers we have out here,

theres one thing we lack iit
spite ue ot the Liws of prot
piles ftps,

i remember SEEING A NEWS os

yeport aboutamulti-car piles,
Sup juspotfthe Deer. Foot ‘Trail:

H laughed" aut
loud. Didn't even think
yabour me