[Coco] "See, click, and get" CoCo gallery?

[John Donaldson]

Roger,
  Don't forget about the law that says if a cop is on the shoulder and 
he has his lights
running you have to move over to the inside lane to pass him. Found out 
the hard way
on that one.

John Donaldson
DALLAS, TX



Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 02:33 PM 1/28/2006, you wrote:
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>> That sounds like a useful function Roger.
>> BTW, what part of Texas do you live in?
>> I am moving to Texas next Month.
>>
>> --Alan
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> I think it will be most useful for seeing a screenshot and getting to 
> download that software with a single click, but the Buy Now buttons 
> will be great for people wanting to sell or find CoCo items, new or 
> used.  I welcome anybody who has new CoCo products to consider using 
> this system when it's in place.
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> I live in East Texas.  This entire area is known for oil wells, oil 
> services, from the big giants down to the little guys who sell bolts 
> and nuts to the companies next door to them, etc.  They are slap all 
> over the place.  Can we say redneck city?
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> On the other hand, we have a lot of CoCo users in Texas... more than 
> we realize, way more than what's shown on the US Map you can get to 
> from the front page of CoCo3.com near the bottom.
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> Btw, in Texas it's legal to drive on the shoulders!!?  Can you believe 
> this?  The rough sides of the road that are for emergency-only use in 
> Louisiana gets driven on as much as the road itself around here.  For 
> instance, if a long string of cars are cruising up the highway and the 
> leader decides he wants to stop and take a left onto the interstate 
> ramp, but he can't turn yet due to oncoming traffic... well, guess 
> what!!  Yep, you guessed it...  every Tom, Dick, and Harry behind him 
> will soon be flying by his right window doing 55.  No Joke.  And what 
> if something up there goes wrong?  They don't seem to care.  They also 
> do not warn you by tapping their brakes or slowing down if something 
> ahead is in their way and they need to swerve into another lane.  If 
> everybody is doing 45 and some huge industrial truck is sitting at a 
> railroad track because of his policy, and you are 2nd in line behind 
> the traffic that's approaching him doing 45, the first car swerves 
> real fast into the left lane still doing 45 causing YOU to slam right 
> into the back of that industrial truck, stopping *on a dime*, bouncing 
> off of that industrial truck, causing you to EAT YOUR AIRBAG, and walk 
> away with burns on your forearms from how hard you slammed into 
> everything. :)   This is why I have no minivan and there are glass 
> particles still below the skin on some of my knuckles.
>
> Don't get me wrong... I have a CDL and have driven in rough traffic 
> all my life, but this place just has it all wrong, and the law doesn't 
> care.  Welcome to Texas!  :)
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