G'day Roy,

Saturday October 05 1996 00:45, Roy Mcneill wrote to Gaelyne Gasson:

 RM> Hi G - ta for enormous reply

And apologies for the delay in answering.

 GG>> All the little towns here are always lit right up too, so you
 GG>> have to go where they can't afford that kinda nonsense and
 GG>> distance yourself a few towns/cities from it.
 RM>
 RM> And you need to ask
 RM>
 GG>>> Why is it I get the feeling most Ozztralians assume all of
 GG>>> USA is nothing but concrete and city??
 RM>
 RM> ???? 

But you're still equating "lights" with concrete and
"city".  Here,
even the hick towns without even sidewalks are lit up like Christmas
trees.  :-(

 GG>> My brother moved "up north" several years ago and had me help
 GG>> by driving one of the vehicles.  I was fine until it got
 GG>> evening/night time because it was the first time I'd been
 GG>> anywhere without a lot of light at night.  I was totally
 GG>> disorientated by it.  You'd of been in heaven 
 GG>> ***have***
 RM>
 RM> Asleep, actually. I have a "trance mode" when I'm distance
 RM> driving. There's only so many things I can think about when I'm
 RM> doing nothing, so it's easier to just turn off. This only works
 RM> when I'm wide awake and alert, btw, it's bloody dangerous if I'm
 RM> tired.

I do this when riding on the back of the bike with Rod.  And write
articles (mentally that later get put into text format) too.  It's
something I really miss about being home.

 GG>> Hmm, come to think of it these places with all the light are
 GG>> the ones with a crime rate or big fear of crime.  The areas
 GG>> where it's dark at night don't seem to have much crime.
 GG>> Curious.
 RM>
 RM> There's a school of thought about exactly that. It says that
 RM> housebreakers like bright lights at night, it means that they can
 RM> (a) check out prospects easily, and (b) break in without using
 RM> torches that can be easily seen by neighbours. There is an actual
 RM> test case of a town that turned off its street lights after
 RM> midnight, and recorded a lower crime rate when the lights were
 RM> off.

I can believe it.  Crims are afraid of the dark.  ;-)

 RM> And there's a small town in England that recently defeated a
 RM> motion in local council to put in its first street light. A new
 RM> resident thought it was too dark, the rest of the locals liked the
 RM> night sky.

Hmm, night sky.  What a concept.

 RM>> Is Saginaw where you are? And if so, why does it take 2 hours
 RM>> to get out? A road planner on LSD? or caffeine?
 RM>
 GG>> Saginaw is where I am, yes.  Home of one of General Motors
 RM>
 RM>  "It took me two weeks".... never mind, I'll
get stomped on

     I wouldn't stomp on you for that.  Not at all.
I never knew that song was ever played in Australia.  

I hummed it in the airplane.  But it took looker to find Australia than
it did America.

 RM>> girlfriends are." Be warned. Her sister is *real* nasty.)
 RM>
 GG>> Careful!  Mine's nastier.  Looks like Gillian Anderson but
 GG>> has more attitude.
 RM>
 RM> Jan's dad (rip) had a story when Janice and Denise (fraternal
 RM> twins) were tiny: Screams were heard. Parents ran into room. Jan
 RM> was on floor yelling. Denise was standing up, and indignantly
 RM> defended herself with "I was talking to her, and she fell asleep,
 RM> so I kicked her in the face until she woke up."
 RM>
 RM> Just how nasty is *your* sister?

She once strangled me because I was "bugging" her.  Luckily my mother
caught her before she finished the act.

 GG>>> "excited" because I saw a book store where they actually
 GG>>> give you a shopping cart to browse with.
 RM>
 RM>> Bliss
 RM>
 GG>> Same here.  And I came back with nothing.  Today my Ex-to-be
 GG>> decided to torture me and talked me into going to the local Mall.

 RM>  Have you seen the mall reference in the "Last 10 Things
 RM> That A Man Will Say" in this echo? Does this mean your ex-to-be is
 RM> *really* ex-to-be?

  Yes, he really is to be an ex to be.  58 days from now.
And yes, he really did want to take me to the mall.  (I hate shopping).

 GG>>> Take your US assumptions and shove 'em, Roy.
 RM>>
 RM>> twist it a bit... Gently, gently...
 RM>> Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhh..... A bit to the left..... Oh
 RM>> yessssss.......
 RM>
 GG>>   Was it good for you?  ;-)
 RM>
 RM> ohh yesss...

:-)

 RM> Please correct me on more US assumptions, mistress...
 RM> like why the residents in some US town (i forget which, sorry)
 RM> rejected the name "Wagga Wagga Drive" for a new road even though
 RM> Wagga Wagga is one of their sister cities just because they can't
 RM> pronounce it...

Beats hell out of me why.  Here in Saginaw, our sister city is some
Japanese one that no one can pronounce.  Wagga Wagga I can deal with.
Tis no worse than Walla Walla.

 GG>> Aside to Rod:  See Honey, other people make noise sometimes
 GG>> too and say things like YES!  :-)

 RM> hey, in this country, we'll say anything at all if it would just
 RM> bloody rain

LOL!  But I wasn't looking for rain.

Cheers,
Gaelyne

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