Those of us with email accounts have all seen our share of junk mail. Some of it is interesting, some looks well-conceived, some of it is just dumb. Well, this is my contribution to the world of junk mail. I wrote it all by myself. Someday, I may get it in the mail once again, as the great cauldron that is the Internet Junk Mail boils over again into my mbox.
We've all seen various lists that are supposed to decode dark secrets about our
personalities because of what our favorite colors are.  Here is another such
list--but not quite like the others you have seen.

		WHAT YOUR FAVORITE COLOR SAYS ABOUT WHO YOU ARE

		(as seen by your Drivers' Education instructor)

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Identify your favorite color on the list below and learn about yourself:
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RED:	Reds are not much for independent thought.  Red is the color of commands
	and interdictions:  STOP, WRONG WAY, NO PARKING.  A red person is quick
	to take orders and to abide by them; in an unstructured situation, reds
	are often dazed and confused.  You need someone to lead you through life
	almost by the hand.  Be wary, though:  you are likely to follow what
	directions you get.  If you take after a green, your life may outrun
	you.  Worse, though, would be to follow an orange.

ORANGE:	You are a sadist and a masochist.  Very few people like you--cherish
	deeply those that do, particularly those that are not oranges (and are
	therefore not as mentally twisted as you are).  Orange is the color of
	roads under construction; the sole purpose of orange is to indicate
	that the road ahead is somehow broken.  The rest of the human race
	doesn't particularly like it when the road is broken.  Orange people
	choose the most difficult way conceivable to accomplish a given task.
	They plow through relentlessly until they have accomplished what they
	set out to do.  The best chance an orange has for a friend, other than
	an equally warped orange, is a blue who doesn't care when or how fast.
	An orange is a green's worst nightmare.

YELLOW:	Yellows are very edgy people.  You see potential hazards all around you.
	Yellow is the color of warning signs; as such, you are aware of cautions
	from all sides.  A timid yellow goes through life worrying about what
	is going to happen next; timid yellows get along well with browns who
	don't care what happens next.  More bold yellows take life's hardships
	and unpleasantries with a grain of salt; these are the people who can
	stand up to an orange without flinching, then drive off with a green.
	Whites and yellows get along very well, but a strong red with a timid
	yellow is a very bad match.

GREEN:	You are a holy terror on the road.  Green is the color of street signs,
	and it is green that welcomes you to the next town.  You know where you
	are, and where you are going.  Green is also, most importantly for you,
	the color of highway signs.  You are a highway driver, through and
	through; you have no qualms about going 100 miles an hour into the night
	across the prairie.  On the highway, the lights are always green.  You
	are never stationary; the favorer of green is forever moving, forever
	rushing.  You often have immense personal conflict with anyone who tries
	to retard you (red, orange, yellow, brown, blue), but get along very
	well with your fellow greens.

BLUE:	You take life in short spurts.  Blue is the color of a rest area; you
	may spend a little time rushing through a project, but you are quick to
	step back, rest a moment, and recompose yourself and your thoughts
	before reembarking on a task.  From time to time, you find you can get
	along with greens; other times browns are your closest friends.  You are
	also able to get along with oranges very well.

PURPLE:	You are a daydreamer, bordering on hallucinogenic.  There is no purple
	on the road; you see a color that isn't there.  You don't see what is
	really there (so you may get along with an orange).  You are likely to
	be closest to greens (racing along way too fast) and browns (who don't
	have the structure you can't see anyway).  Since people are to you who
	you want them to be, you can get along with anyone, although level-
	headed yellows or whites and closed-minded blacks may fear you a bit.

BROWN:	You are an extremely unstructured individual.  Brown is the color of
	signs pointing off the road; points of interest seem to seek you out.
	You are never in any particular hurry; you'll get there (wherever there
	may be) eventually.  In the meantime, you're going to enjoy nature along
	the way.  You get along really well only with your fellow browns, and
	greens generally scare you half to death (as well they should).

BLACK:	You are a very closed-minded individual.  You see life as a very limited
	scenario, and you are very resistant to people attempting to show you
	light.  Black is the absence of light, as well as the color of the long
	"ONE WAY" sign; you see one way to do things, and often are unable to
	comprehend any other direction than the exactly one you see.  Blacks
	generally have a hard time getting along with other blacks, as rarely
	are two oriented in exactly the same direction.

GREY:	You are confused.  You have been wandering around too long on the road
	and are likely out of windshield washer solvent.  There are no grey
	signs on the road, but if you can't see through the glass, every sign
	looks grey.  You have a self-identity crisis--you are not sure who you
	are.  If you have a close friend who is not grey, you are likely to
	match that color eventually.  (And pity shall be bestowed upon you
	should you have befriended an orange.)

WHITE:	White is the color of informational signs:  speed limit, pass with care,
	state route 97.  You are an open-minded person, almost the antithesis of
	one who favors black.  You hear the words of others when they make their
	suggestions, but you are still free to do your own thing (and often do).
	You are not the speed demon going 104 down some back road (that's green)
	without regard for anything; you heed the speed limits, even though you
	don't always hold to them to the letter.  Your best friend can be any
	color, since you are both individualistic and adaptable.

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Now, can you guess what the favorite color of the author of this list is?
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If you can't, go take a look at this. And even though orange signs are warnings of a road in disrepair, my favorite traffic sign of all is orange: "END WORK ZONE SPEED LIMIT".
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