--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jan Coffey wrote: > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Sounds like the average Hispanic is subject to the "last bastard" > > > syndrome -- "I'm the last bastard that should have gotten in, > > nobody > > > come in after me". > > > > > > (I first heard this term on a local talk radio show, referring to > > people > > > coming to Austin. I didn't think *I* should be the last bastard, > > I just > > > thought they should have stopped coming about 2 1/2 years after I > > > married and became an official resident. ;) > > > > Why do you think people don't want more, well, people? > > > > I think it is stability, not only of culture but also financial. > > Isn't it the rate, not the actual influx with causes that > > instability? Could slowing the rate not only stabalize the culture, > > but also stabalize the economic outlook for those already there? > > Actually, in my case, it was traffic. :) Traffic started getting to > the point of unreasonableness sometime in 1994, IMO.
I was there then and I agree. One very horific accident happened on the 35 on the lower level. A VW Rabit was driving with a semi in front and a semi behind all in the rigt lane. Another car cut off the semi in the front to get to one of the tight exits. I saw it and I will not describe what I saw. > Or if everyone coming in had had the same sort of driving habits as the > people already here, that would have been fine. But we got examples of > the regional stereotypical bad driving habits of several regions, and > you didn't know what to expect on the road anymore. (With the > newcomers, for the first few weeks while they still had the out-of- state > plates it was OK. OK like OKlahoma? That was me in 92 - 93. > Once they had Texas plates, though, there was no clue > as to how they were going to act in traffic.) > > The other thing which has nothing to do with the "last bastard" syndrome > was that the character of pickup truck drivers changed somewhat, so I > didn't know which set of behaviors to expect from a newer pickup truck. > (People driving older ones fit into one of two behavior patterns, so I > could predict what they would do based on just a little bit of observed > behavior on the road.) You had the "we are Hicks get-out-our-way" drivers, and the good-old- boy "take your time, be curtious, it's a nice day for a ride" drivers. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
