Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:21:22 -0500
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Slipping & sliding ...was: NADWCON, weather preparations
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at panix.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Keith F. Lynch <kfl at keithlynch.net> wrote:
>> I thought badge number one always went to the guest of honor.

To the best of my recollection when a Worldcon wins they put aside some of the lowest
numbers instead of selling them. On the other hand I would have gotten a *very* low
number indeed, probably one of the first sold, if I hadn't switched from standing on
like to managing the line. Grump.

>> If you think driving on slick wet ice is difficult, try bicycling on
>> it.  I've done it.  Not only is the asphalt wet and very slippery, so
>> is every part of the bike, including the brake pads.  But the scariest
>> part is when I'm climbing a hill and the car in front of me loses
>> traction and starts sliding backwards.
>
> http://youtu.be/6249iHSJsKo

I don't want to even think about bicycling on ice but Michael's youtube reminded me of
when Dan and I were driving up to Pittsburgh for Thanksgiving. As we went up Cumberland
pass there were fewer and fewer cars on the road: people who couldn't handle driving on
ice had slid off to the side. And everyone was keeping a lot of distance which resulted
in going steadily.

(I was really glad that Dan was driving at the time. I know how to drive on ice and
probably would have made it but he'd grown up in Pittsburgh.)

Elspeth