Dear Mr 2004 Lexus

[trixtah]

Since your car is at least 34 years younger than mine, I'm sure that its superior roadhandling ability and torque makes it incredibly frustrating to have to knock 10 seconds off your transit time through the roundabout due to having to follow me through it in these wet and slippery conditions. I'm sure the fact you missed my front bumper by less than half a metre when you cut into my lane was a mark of your irritation at my going my normal speed out of the roundabout, which had thus required you to grind your gears for at least a minute in order to get past me. Yes, my brakes do work fine, thank you.

But why o why, after having expended all this effort and stress, did you have to immediately drop to less than 70km/h in an 80km/h zone? Although I was doing 80km/h at the time, it wasn't necessary to give my brakes another test right then, and it really freaked out the nice man in the truck behind me.

No love,

Trix

Comments

[faxon.livejournal.com]

Ah the joy of driving in Canberra in the rain.

As his car is 34 years younger than yours why did you slow down?

(Bad Bear)

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Bwahahaha!!

Hee! braking did seem like a bit of waste, since he probably had decent insurance, and the front of my car (with the rest) could do with a re-spray... And, hey, it would have really tested his road-handling abilities.

I think that qualifies as me being bad too. :-)

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Icon love.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

Servalan pwns the universe. And bitchitude. Heh.

(And she was one of my earlier tv crushes... say no more).

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

I think she was one of mine too, but not in a romantic sense so much as "here's a woman who makes a difference to the plot" sort of sense. It's apparently important to me, so much so that when I was young, I would invent female characters to insert into books that didn't have enough of them for my taste. I understand other women re-invent slash in similar circumstances.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

bugger, I meant to reply to this a lot earlier.

It's interesting your mechanism for introducing female characters into your reading when you were young. I certainly didn't have the imagination to do that. However, I was lucky enough in that I seemed to get quite a lot of decent strong female characters in my reading. Anne McCaffrey has her faults, but a lack of independent females in her writing isn't one of them. So too with Diana Wynne Jones, Susan Cooper, Andre Norton and similar authors. I would occasionally read "Boys Own Adventure" type tales, but I balanced those with the less-foofy "Girls' School" type books. Both types of reading where really about foreign worlds to me.

I also think I quite deliberately avoided overtly macho writing, perhaps with the exception of Asimov. I almost exclusively read SF/fantasy as a teenager (and it's still the genre I read most), but nothing could bore me faster than a bunch of quasi-US Marine types caressing their weapons and talking about muzzle velocity. I avoid it even more now, even when the protagonist is obstensively female (like Honor Harrington).

And yep, I'm sure that's one of the reasons that women write slash. The other, of course, being that one can read porn that is more likely to work for one as a woman, rather than the male-oriented variety featuring them caressing their weapons and talking about muzzle-velocity. :-)

[aquaeri.livejournal.com]

Don't worry about the delay, it means I'm not behind, unlike the rest of my life.

I feel uncomfortable about taking credit for inventing extra female characters. It wasn't anything I thought of doing, it was just something I did. I think I got very involved in stories when I was younger - I do notice I don't get that gestalt sense of the story that included reworking the plot and characters so much anymore.

I know what you mean about reading sf and other books the same way, because they were all about foreign worlds. I don't know that I ever read anything as a child that I felt had much to do with how I experienced life.

I'm not sure what genre I read most of these days, apart from the obvious (molecular genetics). I've certainly read a lot of SF/fantasy proportionately, but I think I've managed to avoid most of the more extreme
muzzleporn. I know I did read a Tom Clancy once, or tried to - I gave up because it was so hard to find the plot and characters among all the technical specifications. Definitely not my idea of fiction.