I must be the last guy on the planet to have heard of the latest craze in the use of these names. No not slimy little creatures that leave a gooey trail or horror movie creatures that snatch bodies... No No!
Today these are the proper names for individuals trying to live within the crowded, congested, roadway system in our largest cities. Slugs are commuters who, instead of climbing behind the wheels of their gas guzzlers and heading to work, drive to the nearest Park & Ride where they offer their bodies in exchange for a ride into work. Not literally of course, but what they do offer Body Snatching commuter drivers is a second warm body in the car and thus enable the driver to enjoy the pleasure of using the High Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) lanes in their travel to work.
Who'da thunk it! Car pools, those archaic things of the past when every family didn't have two or three autos, are being reinvented by events.
For a lengthier and very cleverly done article on these Slugs and Body Snatchers... go to:
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/printedition/2007/07/04/edhov0704.html
Kind of takes you back to happier times when hitch hiking was not a dangerous adventure, but rather, a way to travel and meet people....
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