Reply #16: Decided back in 84 to avoid Texas for the rest of my life.

[havocmom]

Grandma died and sis & I drove back to St. Joe from AZ. Left after work and drove straight through. Put is in Texas before dawn.

Miles and miles of miles and miles. Every so often, a sign stating that traffic was patrolled and laws enforced by unmarked cars. Told my throttle jockey sister I would drive as she was notorious for her lead foot. I am religious about turn signals too. I wanted to drive so there would be less likelihood of being pulled over on desolate stretches of road by an unmarked car. Hell, they would have had to shoot to kill to make me stop on those stretches of highway if they were in unmarked cars at that hour!

Don't know if Texas still uses unmarked cars, and won't go to find out. Any place that 'enforces traffic laws' with unmarked vehicles is disregarding the safety of women at best and making excuses to abuse people at worst.

Don't mess with Texas, indeed. Lots of lovely people there I would enjoy visiting, but not until they rein in the good ol boys riding the highways and thinking they ARE the law.