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What's Your Hurry?(Column)(Column)
Byline: Kevin A. Wilson
With August comes that frenetic rush to cram everything that fits into the remainder of the summer. You can see it in people at tourist attractions who can't take a minute longer to listen to a guide or enjoy a view because they're in too big a hurry to move on to the next sight on their checklist.
And you can see it on the road, where a lot of us just don't know when to go slow. I'm not talking slow as in left-lane-bandit, anti-destination-league slow. I mean slower for a moment in the interest of everyone's safety and usually your own average speed.
At this writing, I'm on the road in the middle of about 1500 miles worth of driving. What I've seen so far tells me the rush is on. While teaching my sons about driving, I always emphasized that any driver's aim on the roadway is to facilitate the flow of traffic.
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