Driver’s Ed?
Ok, I’m not sure if it’s me, or if the entire freaking world has gone insane, but lately it seems that driving in this town has gone out of control. Starts with 2 days ago. I dropped my daughter off at her school, and it’s right in the middle of a very busy part of town. I take a right out of the parking lot, and pull up to a stop light. Waiting to take a right turn, I see that the opposite traffic has a green arrow, and are all making left turns. Most of them are coming all the way over into the right hand lane, because they need to turn into the parking lot of the school. So I’m waiting, there really isn’t any where to go. It can’t be more than 5 seconds, and the guy behind me starts laying on his horn. I look in my mirror, and throw my hand up. Where in the hell does he think I can go, and are you in that big of a f’n hurry you can’t wait 10 seconds? He proceeds to throw his hand up at me. So patiently I wait for him to pull along side of me as we are going down the road. I roll my window down, and he does the same. So I causally ask him "Do you really want your a$$ kicked this early in the morning?" - I think I f*cked up his day, because he had nothing to say and just drove off.
Then, yesterday coming home from picking up my youngest, there seems to be an accident on the freeway. I’m in a lane, that has to merge over, (no choice, it merges anyway). I notice that most of the people in front of me are doing the alternate method, a car in my lane merges in, and the car in the left lane goes, etc. Well, I’m getting the point where I need to merge over, I have my blinker on, and I notice that the car to my left is hugging the bumper of the car in front of her. She is bound and determined to NOT let me in. Well lady, I have bad news for you. I’m coming over, just like the rest of the "normal" folks are doing. So I slowly start pulling over, inch by inch. And damn, she is not budging. I’m thinking, ok this is not going to be pretty, but I can tell you right now, I AM COMING OVER. Finally she realizes that I wasn’t giving in, and backs off, but decides to lay on her horn. Not just a normal horn blast, but 30 f*cking seconds of it. I’m laughing pretty good at this point, because I’m thinking. "you know, just a bit of niceness, and wanting to do the right thing by letting me in, and you wouldn’t have pissed yourself off so much and ruined your day". Think about it, is that what you would have done if it were your mom wanting to merge in? Probably not, so why not take 2 freaking seconds out of your day, and let someone over. GEEZ, gotta love the idiots in the world
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September 5, 2009 at 6:55 am
I HATE when I try to merge and no one will let me in. It’s like everyone on the road wants to be in 1st Place in the Indy 500 and can’t stand to have someone get in front of them.
I was in an accident because a girl didn’t allow me the right of way and tried to beat me making a left hand turn while I was heading straight through an intersection.
She had a warrant out for her arrest because she fled from the scene of the accident and is now on probation for a couple of years. Was trying to beat me out worth that?
September 6, 2009 at 12:49 pm
people have gotten so stupid these days. People act like they invented and own the roads themselves. I’m like you JA. I will start a fight if it means me getting to where i am going in a responsible manner
September 7, 2009 at 1:48 am
Once I get in my car I consider everyone outside of my windshield an idiot. That way I’m pleasantly surprised when they do something unusual like obey the law or even crazier; be considerate. I remember in Germany some guy wouldn’t let me zipper in, due to an accident, so I did the same thing you did. I made my own space. He laid on his horn too but that is a major rule infraction over there and the Polzei weren’t having any of that. Last I saw they had him on the side of the road and were telling him to get the f*ck out of his car…
September 8, 2009 at 11:23 am
There are idiots everywhere… and when I’m driving I consider everyone besides me an idiot.
Just kidding! lol
Seriously, I can’t stand it when people lose all sense of common courtesy. Which seems to be the norm on the roads. If someone next to you needs to merge… be nice and let them merge!