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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: bike path news
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:51:34 -0500
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On 3/10/2025 8:37 PM, John B. wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:21:53 -0400, Frank Krygowski
> <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/10/2025 2:38 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>>>   
>>> People form their own opinions and arrange their own behavior based on
>>> their own situation.
>>
>> Yes - or based on their own phobias. I know people who are horribly
>> afraid of spiders, garter snakes, honeybees, graveyards and more.
>>
>> Smart? No. Logical? No. But at least they're not carrying lethal weaponry.
>>
>>> My daughter for example used to take the train to work in inclement or
>>> bitter cold Chicago winters.
>>> No longer. ...
>>
>> You're the anecdote master, Andrew. But IIRC you've not yet found a
>> horrifying anecdote about quiet bike paths in suburban Florida, near our
>> timid tricycle rider.
> 
> 
> Well... you exhibit a fear of firearms - you even  bragged about your
> bravery,  ""I short one a few times". However  I can find no record of
> a firearm leaping down from the gun rack and rushing out the door to
> shoot someone.
> 

+1

just a tool, an object not an actor.

-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971