Originally Posted by
ShadowGray
Shriners are a different group from Masons... related but not quite the same.
I hang around with a lot of masons/masonic-related groups, they're fine but the problem is that most of the adult masons are usually older people with the extra time on their hands... masonic activity is time consuming. So, figure old people + car = bad.
I just have problems with old people driving in general, whether they be masons or not.
When ever I visit my inlaws in Southern Florida I get to experience that. Boca Raton is one scarry place to drive. The roads are mostly devided with a berm with three wide lanes each way with only 45 MPH speed limit. You would think that would make for a relaxing drive. It is the folks that regularly pull U turns or they turn left from the right most lane without looking even then cars are behind them. Scarry stuff.
When I was at college I noticed that every time you saw someone driving irratically it was almost always an Asian driver in their late 20's or early 30's. It took a few weeks to realize why that was. It turns out those were foreign graduate students. For most of them this was the 1st time in their life they or anyone else in their family has to drive. No wonder they drove like 16 years with a learners permit. Otherwise it was funny that most college students drove much more carefully than highschool students and also were much more curtious about not dinging your door then "adults" in a normal parking lots. I think the teenage boys got their truely crazyness out of their system and with the price of school what it is/was everyone was very money cautious.
Happy riding,
André