[SDCBC] "Actuarial inevitability" my #(#$&@ !

[Neil Brooks]

--- Serge Issakov <serge at issakov.org> wrote:

> One lane, two lanes, what's the difference?  Lather, rinse, repeat
> (did you hear about the software engineer who died from exhaustion
> taking a shower?  He was following the directions on the shampoo
> bottle...).
> 
> Seriously, there are three lanes: #1, #2 and #3.  You're in #1, and #2
> and #3 come in from the right off the freeway.  After someone (say a
> Prius) in #2 yields to you, you move from #1 to #2 and start signaling
> right and alternating between looking ahead and looking back until
> someone in lane #3 yields to you.  If  #3 is unoccupied, you go for
> it, unless someone (in say a pickup) is flying along from behind in
> #2, in which case I'd probably wait until the pickup slowed down, or
> moved into #3 and passed me and the Prius on the right.
> 
> It's an unusual situation, but the same principles apply here as they
> do everywhere else.  In particular: don't move laterally without first
> verifying that it is clear and safe to do so.

Dear Serge,

I believe it was Willie Mays who, when asked if he had a secret to his legendary baseball
greatness, once said, 

    "They throw the ball, I hit it; they hit the ball, I catch it."

Get my drift? ;-)

Neil
Who drives a Prius and smiled, at least, at that part of your post ;-)