DRIVERS STRIKE

Lets see, KS is in a carpool has nothing to lose from such a strike and proposes it anyway. He can stir up this pot of garbage without any ramifications for doing so? So we shall follow his advice? I think not. N or S Bound, who USED to be really cool, suddenly decides he hates the people he picks up everyday, and like 122582, joins the "movement." N or S bound recently had a house deal closer to DC that fell through and feels some need to make us suffer because of it? Now let me ask a couple of questions. When you bought your property in Stafford, Facquier, or Fredericksburg, did you not say to yourselves, I am willing to commute that far everyday? You said yes, and you were willing to take the risks of living so far away. Well one of those risks is that the price of gas would rise. That's really a bad thing. We all know that. But your fellow sluggers will open our arms to you and let you ride when it is our turn to drive. You do not have to drive everyday, you choose to do so. Do not try to ruin slugging because of your personal dissatisfaction with the rising price of gas. Isn't that really selfish of you? For 30 years this system works but because it doesn't fit your personal definition of "fairness" we should abandon it to satisfy your feelings? We should throw money at you to solve your problems with your choice as to where you choose to live? Excuse me, but, you choose to live where you do.

I could live alot closer to DC if I wanted to. I LOVE Stafford. Half the people who drive to pick up slugs, or who slug, are not from Stafford. To many of you, we are merely 610, a convenient port in and out of DC. Last December, when there were fewer than 40 regular DC riders per day, and temperatures were extreme, we were a community of riders. As VRE has become ridiculous, and folks realize that a park and ride in Fredericksburg and 17 that is not easy to get in and out of is problematic, you all have migrated to 610. We Stafford riders have not asked for our county to tax out of county stickers, or asked you for a "tip" for driving from Fredericksburg to pick us up. But you have asked us to do the same. Us regulars can look at fellow sluggers and remember freezing together, not because we enjoyed the experience but because we did not.

My point is that it is ez for KS to organize a "strike" when he has no investment in it. It is ez for 122582 to say I should pay him 10.00 round trip to Fredericksburg, when his actual cost of gas has only risen 2.00 a day, at least at this point. No SB can be mean even though he says he slugs because he cares because he had a bad vacation and did not move closer to DC as he anticipated. These personal problems are personal problems. I sympathize with them. Radco ridershare might be the alternative for 122582. No SB is really cool most of the time, and would be an excellent person to carpool with if you didn't have a problem with meeting at an exact point and time each day (the problem is we carpool or slug because we don't wanna do that) and no offesnse, but KS, don't think you and I should ever get in a car together...

"I and other drivers are then saving each of the two slugs we pick up daily $27K per year."
And how much are YOU saving because of the people who ride with you? If picking up "bottom-feeders" is so distasteful for you, why do it? Because you're gaining something. You get to work earlier and quicker.

OK, assuming for the sake of argument that asking for $ is fine. Will the amount vary from driver to driver and location to location? Do we get a zone system like DC? If I pay for a ride with you can I ask you to play/not play a certain radio station? You gonna have change? Are we going to taylor this fee (because a fee is what it is) to gas prices, so it will fluctuate along with them?

I was the one who said that my company will pay me back for taking mass transit if I submit a claim to them. I don't get to pocket anything if I don't use it. I like to slug because it is more flexable.

If you want to charge do so if you don't want to pick up us bottom feeders anymore then don't.

I will probably just get into a carpool with my father and husband. Dad has a hybrid and we can all meet up at 610. We all work the same hours usually.

Also dad parks for free at the navy yard. The only problem will be that the two days a week i drive now I won't be picking up slugs anymore. My father the horrible Hybrid driver also picks up at least two slugs every evening too which we won't be doing anymore.

Hmmm this might be great though. If I am sick DH can still ride with dad and they don't have to pick up anyone.

Yep strike if you want to.

Why all the griping? This is voluntary participation, do it if you want to, don't do it if you don't want to. But don't try to screw it up for those of us who are happily using the system. IF KC WolfPck wants to strike, GOOD LUCK and good riddance, do it on your own time. This site is dedicated to those of us who are happy to drive slug riders and catch a ride with slug drivers. I have done both and will continue as long as it works, happily! That's why everybody loves me!

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Originally posted by raymond
[br] IF KC WolfPck wants to strike, GOOD LUCK and good riddance, do it on your own time.

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Raymond....if you read my other post, you would know that I am in a vanpool. Therefore, you should be able to see why a stike would benefit me. Of course...I wasn't serious that drivers should strike. I do think that they should carpool if their situation allows it. I'm just stirring the pot...that's what I do. Just ignore me like everyone else does. [8D]