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young man himself. He often said
that anybody who wished to drive
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because he said that one learns more
‘road sense’ in about two weeks riding
a motorcycle than one would ever
learn in a lifetime of driving a car.
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matter how much of a dedicated Slow
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a car driver almost automatically
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almost automatically results in a
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as most of us surely have when
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have been late in boarding the
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casually across several of our
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into our shrieking midst in an
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fact that we have had several unwary
Slow Reactors amongst us; God rest
their S.R. souls.THE BE IN BRISBANE
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