I wrote this in a blog entry below:
Good points, Trish. However I personally know of a number of cases (OK, they are in New York and LA, not in the heartland, and I consider Florida part of the heartland, except Miami and Orlando, where people do think a bit for themselves) where ticket after ticket was written and the car was just left there.
Some take it that I was saying that Midwesterners are slow. Nope, that the opposite of what I meant. If I were an editor I would have had it rewritten like this:
Good Points, Trish. However I personally know of a number of cases (they were in New York and LA, not in the heartland where people do think a bit for themselves), where ticket after ticket was written and the car was just left there.
Avid readers of this blog know that I have great respect for "flyover country" and believe in the 50 mile rule. That is, people who live within 50 miles of an ocean (like me) have a skewed view of morality and life in general. – Lay off New Yorkers and Angelenos. You know exactly what I mean.
JVH
