Yo, everyone, who are those Colorado drivers?

[Harry R Glesner III <hglesner@ast.lmco.com>]

Howdy Gang:
  I feel like I've got to jump in here. I've lived in Colorado 
since I was 4 years old in 1956. The population growth in Colorado 
has always been "run away", but over the last 5 to 10 years it's 
been almost painful. Point in case no one in my son's Cub Scout den 
has been in Colorado for over 2 years. So I ask what is a Colorado 
driver...transplanted Cal, Florida, Illinois on and on.  I work a 
Lockheed Martin and I'm surrounded with San Deagans (?) who really 
want to go home. Never more so than when it snows.  
  Point is that I agree with the general thread that driving in 
Colorado has become, what I shall call more interesting, but I 
don't beleive it's the long term (15 years or more) Colorado 
residents that are the problem, its the recent transplants. 
  I'd be the first to agree that everyone needs more training and 
that drivers licenses are way to easy to get. I've ogmented my own 
driving skills by maintaining an SCCA national license in road 
racing, earned in Formula Vee. I'd agree it's pretty scary out 
there and the more you know the more there is to fear.
  One last aimless question to the group as a whole...why in the 
world has it become the "YUPPY" thing to run a round with driving 
lights on all of the time. We in the U.S. have some of the worst 
restrictions on lighting preformance in the world, so to compensate 
these people seem to feel they must run around town all day long 
miss-using the only good lights they? Help me understand this.
  
Thanks for listening to this non-quattro material-
Rick Glesner