On Thursday 21 Feb 2002 5:44 pm, Betty B wrote:
> In a message dated 2/21/2002 9:45:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>
> [log in to unmask] writes:
> > You crack me up, Ken!
> >
> > "...and some definatly not accustomed to driving in a big
> > city. people from montana, alabama, idaho, etc. some of which
> > would have been better off driving a john deere in a pasture
> > insted of on metro washington dc streets. :-}"
>
> I feel sorry for the out of town tags.  If I had not grown up
> driving here, I don't think I would want to try to learn how now.
>
> Y'all should know that Deri found my house -- in the middle of the
> night -- coming from Dulles (I'm close in to DC).  He had never
> been in the US before, and had the wrong kind of adaptive equipment
> in the rental car.  PLUS, I think I gave him the wrong name of one
> exit, so he had to deal with that.

It was a wild ride I tell you that. Mind you Philly was worse, simply
because the exit numbers marked on my atlas bore absolutely no
resemblance to the exit numbers on the road - always assuming you
could work out which were exits and which were roadworks access!

Cheers

Deri