Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 10:07:25 -0600 From: Christian M. Mericle <newsgroupinkynospamail.com> Subject: Re: My 900 Needs a Cup Holder
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? >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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