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Toll Road HOV Enforcement A Joke, One Commuter Finds

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I've received many favorable letters about the usefulness of this program, which is free, but offered in our area only a few days a year.

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Yesterday's Amusements

Dear Dr. Gridlock:

I have been following the discussion about use of DVD players to keep children entertained during long car trips, and I remembered our solution.

We have nine children who are all now in their thirties. Once a year when they were young, we went on vacation to the Outer Banks.

With rest stops, lunch stops, fewer freeways and sometimes car trouble, the trip often took as long as 12 hours.

Our solution was comic books. For months before the trip, my husband would stock up on comic books, mostly Disney and the like, and keep them stashed away until vacation time.

We would distribute the comic books to the kids an hour or so after we left home. As they finished them, they would trade with each other.

Even the ones too small to read enjoyed looking at the pictures. We had very peaceful trips, and drivers in other cars were not distracted. Nor was our driver.

Eileen Walker

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