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catbyte

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5. Even though the steel grid sounds a little unnerving, I prefer to drive on that rather than the outside lane.

Reply to JustABozoOnThisBus (Reply #3)

Wed Sep 4, 2024, 05:53 PM

Sep 2024

I think it's because I never forgot that young woman from the Detroit area who went over the edge at about the mid-point when a gust of wind caught her Yugo and she sailed over the edge. This was in the mid-80s. It still gives me the willies.

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