Driving Racked and Responding Too Fast

[Aeskow@xxxxxxx]

- --Douglas was ironic. His  positions against playing while driving has been
expressed many times on  several groups.

Carlo Brutti
 
Mr. Brutti,
 
Thank you for writing.  I re-read the post after (way too hastily)  
responding.  I saw then it was slightly confusing, and immediately wrote  (off-list) to 
Mr. Tate asking for clarification on it.  And though I  haven't received a 
direct answer yet, I did take the time to search the Harp-L  archives, and the 
profile of Mr. Tate that emerged from the archives was  definitely at odds with 
someone who embraced driving while impaired.  I was  thrown off by reading a 
follow-up post from someone else, who WAS in fact  defending his Amurrican 
right to drive any way he felt like (cf. Sammy Hagar, I  Can't Drive 55, etc., ad 
nauseum.)
 
I offer my deepest apologies to Douglas Tate.  
 
I'm sure I'm not the only person on this list for whom this is not a joking  
matter.  Though it doesn't excuse a foolish post, I lost a very close  friend 
to a highway accident caused by another form of driving while distracted,  
and--lacking the chops of a Lenny Bruce--I don't think it's a funny  subject.
 
Again--deepest apologies, and I hope that whatever attention was drawn to  
the subject by my erroneous note can be re-directed back to the simple message:  
driving is a gig unto itself.
 
Peace and Respect
Johnny T