Hi Dave, you where saying:
DH>Down here in Houston, we call those pickup driving, ignorant bastards
DH>"Bubba"!
Hey that's a new one....I'll add this one to my list..hehehe
In our relatively quiet area where I live, approaching a small round
about, doing all the right things, we bike riders should do, an old
bomb loaded with four young hoons, noticed me, they must have thought me
giving hand signals etc. a great joke, their car accelerated and they
attempted to run me down on the round about, they did not succeed. I
was to fast for them, hehehe.... yahooing they went their way.
Things like that happen all the time everywhere, sharpens the reflexes
of us cyclist...and tests our temper. 
Later in the year, when I'll be crossing your Lone Star State, not
with my cycle this time....I'll find out how to pronounce Bubba...:)
Greetings from sunny Redland....Bill :)
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