Etiquette Question

Wow, I must respond. NoSUV, that's a real logic bender you've laid out there. Somehow because I once rode in the second car with two people, instead of the first car with one person, that is going to make HOT "more palatable to the GENERAL public." Regarding bending rules, no rules were bent, broken, flexed, whatever in my case. THERE IS NO RULE IN THE SLUG ETIQUETTE HANDBOOK regarding the described situation. My case was an EXCEPTION to the established order of things. Read that again, EXCEPTION. You and every other mind-numbing person who has responded to this issue with your half thought-out responses deserve to walk to work. It's any wonder the system works as well as it does given it's constituency.

Yes, the OVERALL congestion problem does need a cure. There are several parts to a long-term cure: ending the hybrid exemption, increasing capacity of lots, increasing capacity of both the I-95/I-395 corridor, building new bridges, and perhaps a bypass for I-95 truck traffic south of F-burg. Lining up like lemmings and jumping in cars every morning and evening works for many, but it is not the only solution to congestion. And believing that is the panacea is folly.

I don't appreciate profanity and I think that you exaggerate. Statistically, it is improbable that the above scenario would play out exactly as you describe. One way or the other, everyone makes their way either north or south. You know that as both a driver and perhaps as a slug too. Granted there will be exceptional circumstances which may cause us to deviate from the accepted norms of slugging. However, I don't believe such deviations will harm the system.


We're all in this together. So we may as well cool the rhetoric and turn our attention to the REAL problems facing HOV: HOT and Hybrids.

This concludes my interest and participation in this thread.

122582,

So you now speak for the entire "slugging" community? I both ride and drive. As a driver I frequently get passed up for the car with 2 people when mine only has little ole me. And guess what: It doesn't bother me -- it's simply the "cost of doing business" in the Old Dominion. If you'll all go back to my initial post, it was the driver's reaction which served as the principal reason for my starting this thread: arms outspread and bellowing, "DO YOU NEED A RIDE?!" Why don't we change this thread over to "Driver Aggression Toward Slugs?"

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Originally posted by getmehome pweeze
[br]So, you think that my husband and I, who always slug together, should slug separate, if the car we get into just so happens to pick both of us up, even if the driver already has a 2nd in the car before us? Just because you may have to wait for another slug, for the car you may wait in after us?? Ok, so sorry to inconvenience you, NOT!!

You cant stand to be apart? Is that the reason here?? Helping another individual would seem the right thing to do....I mean what are we talking about here....1 hour of being apart??

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Originally posted by cedarcitynative
[br] I arrived at the lot late in the morning, after 8am, when slugs are few and far between at my particular lot. By getting in the second car, I may have extended the wait of the first car,

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Yeah....you basically screwed him good.

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however, I expedited the commute of the folks waiting in the second car,

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Yeah, you could have expedited the commute of anyone in line by getting in their car first...even the last car in line. Does that mean you should??? Do you know the purpose of a LINE??

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There's a phrase in the Good Book that says: "the first shall be last and the last shall be first."

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What the heck is this so called "Good Book" and what does it have to do with slugging??????

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In this instance, the last car (the second one) was first.

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Yeah, because you screwed the person who was first in line.

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Moreover, why punish the second car to waiting an indertiminable time when they are only ONE person away from the requirement of HOV-3.

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Since when is it punishment to WAIT HIS FRICKIN TURN???? If he wanted to ensure getting a slug right away, he would have made arrangements to get to the slug line earlier.

Sheesh......CLUELESS!!!!