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      <![CDATA[Is a leaf blower like a goat blower?
        
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TOO MANY STOPS
        
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      <![CDATA[she was giving a range of possible behaviors, not what SHE did.
        
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      <![CDATA[<blockquote>...good: I walked to work this morning; evil: I cleared the leaves from yard with a <a href="http://www.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2008/11/17/light_rail_who_will_think_of">gas-powered leaf blower</a>...
        
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      <![CDATA[@16: My leafblower?
        
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      <![CDATA[Trade the gas powered leafblower for a rake, and get yourself into something with four wheels.  Thirty minutes of your leaf blowing is equal to driving a car to Denver and back.  Really, Erica, that particulate matter and hydrocarbon from your leafblower is hell on the elderly and children and asthmatics.  There is no calculus I can think of where a bus ride or bike ride offsets that.   <br />
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Get a car and a rake.
        
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      <![CDATA[I have to say, most metro drivers RULE, particularly given how hard it must be to maintain a civil demeanor while dealing with idiots all fucking day.
        
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      <![CDATA[AGGRAVATED &#8800; ANNOYED<br />
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C'mon now, ECB. You're better than that.
        
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      <![CDATA[i don't get it, is this a complaint?  that the driver is putting your safety ahead of adhering to a set schedule?  i'm confused, please advise.
        
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      <![CDATA[Metro's priority: "Safety, service, schedule." In that order.
        
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      <![CDATA[@9 <br />
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SNAP!
        
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      <![CDATA[There are drivers who are always rude and drivers who are always graceful. There are riders who are always rude and riders who try to be graceful as much as they can in this mass transit-less hell of a transport town.
        
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      <![CDATA[Meanwhile you advocate a "surface/transit" option. Makes sense.
        
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      <![CDATA[Remember <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4480031.stm">that train crash in Japan in 2005</a>? I believe that driver's motto was "Keeping the schedule is my biggest concern".
        
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      <![CDATA[Twenty minutes late for Metro is practically on time.
        
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      <![CDATA[What's a bus driver going to do? Grade separate his bus?<br />
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      <![CDATA[While waitin' just go to a special place and imagine tumbleweeds breezin' o'er vast Texan oil fields.... ahhhh!  Take....me....away....
        
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      <![CDATA[If I had to put up with people's shit talk all day, I'd give dismissive answers too.
        
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      <![CDATA[My shitbox car talks back to me regularly, and costs substantially more than $1.50 when it does.
        
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      <![CDATA[Stupid fucking safety-minded driver, why can't he lurch around more recklessly to keep the schedule?
        
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      <![CDATA[my car never talks back to me.
        
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