Quotes worth sharing

Provided by Jon Hammond.

"If you happened not to know enough to engage in advance the seat beside the driver, then the trip was rather a horror, crowded into the stuffy interior between oldtimers, liquor salesmen, mining experts, an occasional stray 'girl' from the local bawdy house, or one of those distressed and distressfully pitiable 'lungers' of whom you had the grace only to hope he wouldn't die on your shoulder. Outside there was a magnificent panorama and often good entertainment."

– Mary Austin

Mary Austin, a famous California author, was describing stage coach rides between Owens Lake and Bakersfield in the 1890s and early 1900s. Apparently then, as now, the best seat for a passenger was "riding shotgun."