Miata Mailing List: December 1995, Message #30
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   From: Michael.Opalak@xcellenet.com
Subject: RE: re: Headlight Flash to Pass
   Date: Fri, 1 Dec 1995 11:25:25 -0500

>>>Here in Chicagoland, we've been trained to instantly
lock bumpers with the nearest truck if lights start flashing
behind us. Even widows and orphans in Tercels will quickly
scoot over to help block out the offending driver
who thinks he's in Europe.  This is America, for gosh sake.
We don't need no stinking high  beams. You're supposed
to bob and weave, make mean faces and use your horn.
Just kidding mostly, but most drivers hate flashers.
It's not polite. Far better just to come barreling down the
road. We see you. We'll move.<<<

On the contrary, IT IS the polite way to signal that you want to pass.  Its 
the standard all over the world.  Only in our backward country do people 
tend to confuse this signal with an act intended to annoy.  The problem is 
that we'll give any idiot with a pulse a license without first determining 
if they have the aptitude to handle one.  If only we had the same driving 
license requirements as other parts of the civilized world.  This form of 
moving road block is not put up with in Europe or Japan.

Michael Opalak
'91 A Classic  Red
Peachtree Miata Club, Atlanta GA  -  Home of the '96 Miata Games at Road 
Atlanta