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Show There's a different set of rules ease up to a stop sign, slowing down ahead of time. In California you keep up full speed until you reach the sign, then apply brakes. If you slow down early, you will have the car behind you in the back seat. You have to learn how to read freeway signs that split up your road into four different directions direc-tions while going 60 mph, and pick out your light when an array of red, yellow and green ones are all going at once. I just sort of "eenie, meenie, minie, no" it. My husband doesn't let me drive into day. When one little girl first got her license she almost got me a couple of times appearing out of nowhere at a fast clip. But, I watch for her now and we get along fine. I guess it's called defensive driving and it works fine here, but you need a little offense in the city. You have to change a lot of old habits and learn to start fast, stop fast, think fast and drive fast. And, above all else, remember the old Chinese proberb "he who hesitates is lost!" By Mary Gae Evans There are definitely two kinds of driving and when driver's education is taught they should explain this more fully. Students should be taught how to drive in Southern Utah and then a whole different course on how to drive in Southern California. For instance, in-stance, here in the surrounding area I am a very good driver; hand me the wheel in Southern California and I become a jib-bering jib-bering idiot. In So. Utah no one signals. We all know where everyone is going to turn off to get home so we wait. If someone does signal we still wait until we're sure they mean it. ..it seems to be perfectly acceptable to change your mind at the last minute and we do it all the time. In. California you don't signal unless you mean it or your next turn may be into the hospital emergency ward. Here, we can the city anymore, however, since he had to back us down off an overpass when I accidently chose the wrong route. He says that if he ever decides to commit suicide we'll just go to L.A on vacation and let me drive. In Southern Utah if we slow down to avoid hitting a pet dog or cat we can be sure the driver behind us will slow down too, because we both know whose dogs are always in the street. We know which streets will be filled with kids playing ball, and which drivers have a reputation for backing out of driveways without looking. We know which teenagers in town have new driver's licenses and are feeling their oats laying a little rubber and speeding a bit. So, we warn the kids to stay out of the street when they see them coming. There are occasional pretty little girls and handsome young men who run by to check on their latest flame two or three times a |