21 Feb 12 21:44, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    RW>> That's about all you can do in a liberal state like CA. Until the   
    RW>> people figure out that it's the liberals who've screwed up their   
    RW>> lives, they'll have to live with who and what they've elected to run   
    RW>> things.   
      
    MH> When more than half of the state works for the government - either   
    MH> directly or indirectly, then you have a problem.  That sums up the   
    MH> issues in MD, right there.   
      
   If they're all Democrats, that's what you have in California, only worse.   
      
    MH> It does make for a great commute to work on government holidays,   
    MH> however.   
    MH> :)   
      
   8^) I wouldn't know about that commute thing. Government holidays are what   
   I call a PIA here, as nothing works as it is supposed to. On President's   
   Day, I went to the bank to make a deposit. They were't open. On the same   
   day I had a package that needed to be sent via the Post Office, they   
   weren't open. The only place that was open that made the day worthwhile   
   was my favorite restaurant, so I stopped and had lunch.   
      
    RW>> There may be hope for MD yet.   
      
    MH> Only if all these people are forced to start working in the private   
    MH> sector, things will change.   
      
    RW>> Somebody should tell the crotch-rocket riders to slow down. I hear a   
    RW>> lot of radio noise, both police and CB, about bikers being stupid.   
    RW>> Like riding at 120mph on the freeway because they can. Another one   
    RW>> got wiped out on the freeway yesterday.   
      
    MH> We have the same problem here.  Doing wheelies, passing cars in   
    MH> between lanes, etc.  They are just an accident waiting to happen.   
      
   I saw a lot of that in California. I saw a lot of them get hurt while   
   passing between rows of cars and a driver opens his door. That's really   
   got to hurt.   
      
    MH> I saw one crash on I-95 when I was riding one day.  He was going over   
    MH> 100mph, zig-zagging, etc.  Clipped a car and ended up crashing on the   
    MH> median.  Lucky for him it looked like he was ok other than some   
    MH> massive road rash.   
      
   In California I saw a few of them who stopped behind cars in a traffic jam   
   get rear-ended by someone going too fast to stop. Don't ask me why the   
   rear-enders weren't paying attention in heavy traffic; I don't know.   
      
    RW>> During my early years (1950s&60s) on the back of a Triumph, I used   
    RW>> to ride with a pack of locals. All mixed bikes, but all of us with   
    RW>> the same ideas of what riding was about.   
      
    MH> Before I was re-married and had another child, I had more time to   
    MH> ride with friends.  Our schedules are just too busy these days for it   
    MH> now.  Most of my riding these days is going to/from work.   
      
   It's a shame that work gets in the way of life as we'd like to live it...   
      
      
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