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Claire Petersky wrote:
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> > "Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...> Me, I'd like to descend the hill and
> > > get a bit of momentum to climb up the other side of the next one. My husband thinks I'm nuts
> > > to yell a warning, when the path is so wide and I'll pass the pedo without difficulty. I
> > > usually call out "bicycle!" first, at a distance, and then "I'll pass you on your left!", and
> > > then finally, "thank you!" -- and no one seems perturbed at all that I'm passing him or her at
> > > 25 mph in this situation.
> >
> > At 25mph you are traveling 37 feet per second. You can't possibly have this kind of
> > communication with a walker at this speed unless you shouting at the top of your lungs.
>
> Indeed, I have a piercing voice that can cut through ambient noise like a hot awl through butter.
> Projection is not one of my difficulties. :-D!
>
> --Claire no sig this morning
Sounds like a typical mother. ;-} Bernie
> <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:<[email protected]>...
> > "Claire Petersky" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > news:[email protected]...> Me, I'd like to descend the hill and
> > > get a bit of momentum to climb up the other side of the next one. My husband thinks I'm nuts
> > > to yell a warning, when the path is so wide and I'll pass the pedo without difficulty. I
> > > usually call out "bicycle!" first, at a distance, and then "I'll pass you on your left!", and
> > > then finally, "thank you!" -- and no one seems perturbed at all that I'm passing him or her at
> > > 25 mph in this situation.
> >
> > At 25mph you are traveling 37 feet per second. You can't possibly have this kind of
> > communication with a walker at this speed unless you shouting at the top of your lungs.
>
> Indeed, I have a piercing voice that can cut through ambient noise like a hot awl through butter.
> Projection is not one of my difficulties. :-D!
>
> --Claire no sig this morning
Sounds like a typical mother. ;-} Bernie