Yes, it does seem that way on the surface, I am sure--an "uproar."
However, I think it more of an effort to finally take those to task, the
ones a person usually, and quite willingly, ignores.
It has always been a pet peeve of mine, when someone draws an illusion and
encourages me to partake in the enjoyment of it with them; in my past posts,
I have responded to them.
I responded to them with a purpose, with patience, with tolerance, and with
hope.
They convinced me that they had spouted such verbal babble, perhaps drafted
such writings, to the point of where they were/are in grave danger of
believing it themselves (it is quite understandable if they seek one
gullible enough to believe their tripe), for real. Since few bother to
reduce themselves to the levels required to respond with logic or even to
devote the time--to insanity--I took pity and did.
The simple/short answer is, "NO ONE IS THAT SPECIAL! Not even you... (well,
just possibly me though!)" Just when you begin to think so, a real one
shows up--a "certified special" person, and deflates your ego... frown
What I see in much of this exchange is a very common phenomena. It is, what
seems, a "natural tendency" in human nature, a tendency to think
ones-self/themselves "special", above, removed from, of a greater intellect,
gifted, endowed by GOD, of possessing a superior reasoning power, more
deserving of, an interesting author of, etc, etc, etc...
If we are all silent, what do you think--they will think?

I know, I know, you now will ask, "Who cares?"--and I grant you this
point...

Regards

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Hay, if'n ya'll cun't konstructivly partecipete in this har disscusion, haw
aboot speel-checkin it fer me?


"TJ" wrote in message
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It's amazing how just one comment by a single person got this group into
an uproar. I really think that the public in general has a romance with
the life of the trucker brought on by the movie and media hype. Truckers
are just ordinary people who do an thankless job of moving just about
everything there is in North America to and from wholesalers to retailers.
Over the years the average trucker's education level has gone from grade
school drop outs to men and women holding degrees of various ranges of
education. Over the years I've come to know a rather large group of
people from a very large slice of various levels of education, similar to
that of most truckers. I hold two degrees and a commercial Radio Telephone
license, but for some reason I ended up returning to "trucking" all the
time. And all the trucks I've driven, over 1 million miles, I've always
had my amateur radio(s) and a CB. Each had it's own nicessity and each
one had it's own language. On one radio I as a respected amateur radio
operator who drove truck, on the other I was just another trucker looking
for a traffic report.
Oh, for those who are of the illusion that truckers are the cause of all
the terrible accident on the highways, well the only person your fooling
is yourself. To get the facts do a little research and you will find that
four wheeled vehicles cause more accidents than any other vehicle. Trucks
seem to fall into the same catigory as motorcycles do in the public's
perseption of the cause of accidents. After you have done your research
you will find that both trucks and motorcycles end of up being a very low
percentage of the cause of accidents. The only thing the public sees is
that when a truck gets into a bad accident it is very bad and devestating
distruction. But statistics show there are fewer truck accidents than four
wheeled vehicles and there are also far fewer accidents that are caused by
trucks entirely.
But, this is just this over educated truckers opinion.

73 de ve7agw, Al