Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 15:12:34 -0400 From: ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com> Subject: Re: My 900 Needs a Cup Holder
Christian M. Mericle wrote: > On Thu, 14 Apr 2005 20:15:46 -0400, ma_twain <ma_twainnospamo.com> > wrote: > > <snip> > >>Objective studies have shown that drinking coffee, even Starbucks does >>nothing to wake up a tired driver. Remember the words "objective >>studies". The official recommendation is to get enough sleep and if you >>find yourself too tired to drive while driving, pull and get some rest. >> Again, coffee does nothing to enhance the performance of a sleepy >>driver. However, it has been proven that drinking anything and driving >>causes accidents . . . >> > > Care to site your sources? http://www.nospam/people/injury/drowsy_driving1/Drowsy.html Taking a nap AND drinking 2 cups of coffee provides a short term solution. > > >>As for passengers drinking - I ban that too. My wife allows the kids to >>have drinks in the minivan - nonalcoholic of course :-) They have >>"glued" the sliding doors of the minivan shut twice with spilled soda. >>She has spilled enough soda to gum up the sealtbelt mechanism. Guess >>what - NO DRINKS in my Saabs!! No soda, no spills, no odors, no glued >>doors, no problems . . . sounds like the start of a country song. >> > > Another Kenny Chesney tune, perhaps? > > >>I am lucky, my office provides free coffee. I don't need to bring any >>drinks. It also has real dairy cream and hot chocolate mix. With the >>ice dispensers and a mixer I can make just about anything I can buy :-) >> When I was working on a Federal account, they provided free Starbucks >>- your tax dollars at work!!! >> > > I work at an agency that receives most of its funding from federal tax > dollars (and most of the rest from state tax dollars). We have a > coffee maker (no free Starbucks, thought). I'm not much of a coffee > drinker, though, so I bring iced tea or pop. > > -- Christian > > Save Darfur -- http://www.savedarfur.org/ > World Vision (Darfur) -- http://donate.wvus.org/OA_HTML/xxwvibeCCtpItmDspRte.jsp?section=10025&item=1072182 > ICC (Sudan) -- http://www.persecution.org/Countries/sudan.html >
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