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Driving Math with the Math of Driving
Driving is a serious matter but this is funny.
Visiting family in Kentucky is a heart-stopping experience if only because my brother-in-law drives in the middle of the road, straddling the double
yellow lines that separate traffic. My sister-in-law does little to ease my fears. Seeing the horror in my eyes, she once said, “Don’t worry. Everyone around here drives in the middles of the road.”
Lisa Walters, Ypsilanti, Michigan
[Source: Reader’s Digest, June 2009, Life (p. 198)]