Re: "Keep Your Eyes On The Road and Your Hands Upon The Wheel"

["Ken Wolman" <kwolman@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vince Daliessio wrote:

> PS - Ken is right - most driving in NJ is done while stuck in traffic. On my way back to South Jersey on Friday nights, I encounter at least 3 separate traffic jams. The delta on my trip is 3.5 hours - it takes anywhere from 2.5 to 6 hours to get home - Lots of practice time!

Allegedly Jersey has or used to have among the lowest incidences of 
vehicular fatalities in the country.  No kidding.  How killed can you 
get when you can't drive over 20 mph on the NJ Turnpike?  You could 
probably practice the bassoon in that kind of traffic.

> PPS - I would venture to say a rack would interfere with safe driving as much as a hand-held cellphone does, or more. Particularly with a 10-hole diatonic - you would only be scanning about 30 degrees...

You'd look like someone wearing one of those post-trauma cervical collars.

A bit hard to believe that Nassau County, America's Parking Lot, has a 
$1,000 fine for people using a cell phone without a hands-free apparatus 
or built-in speaker.  A grand?  A bit steep, I think.  As it is, when 
the Jersey law hits tomorrow, that whole pretext thing strikes me as 
bullshit like most law enforcement in Jersey.  Another ground to profile 
a driver--this in a state where an official in some Monmouth County town 
hits someone in medias shitface, racks up her car, leaves the scene of 
the accident, but then doesn't get cited for drunk driving.  Who ya 
think ya are, who ya know.  But talk on a cellphone and they will find a 
reason to pull you over.  "How the hell did that bottle of vodka get on 
the front seat??"

Too bad even the best players among us can't do a Pied Piper number with 
a Marine Band or an Overdrive or the fabled XB-40...get out of the car 
and play...various Jersey public officials in and out of uniform walk 
into the rivers.  Oh well, I can dream.

Ken
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