Ok, so I'm driving home from work the other night, out the 2 lane state highway I have to take to get home, and some ***hole climbs up my rear end from the time I hit the road until the first passing zone---and as I am doing 55-60 at that point (Yes, Dad, I know what you are going to say about that), I didn't think he was going to blow by me like he did. Ok fine. I throw my high beams on him to say "hey you are an idiot." Then since there is oncoming traffic, I lower them and keep on trucking. We get to a small hill with a big set of curves and he is stuck behind an ambulance going back to the station in the next county. 30 miles per hour. Whatever, I'm 2 minutes from home at that point. We hit the straight stretch right after the last big curve and WHAM---he zooms past the ambulance--double yellow line.
And he's not the first one I've seen do that there. Yes years ago it used to be a passing zone, but not for at least the last 10 years or more. Anyone who travels that road knows this, because why would you travel it if there was a better option? But it's the only viable link between the "big city" and the southern end of the county, where I live.
And while I am on the subject of drivers----who the crap decided teenagers could drive? I had to pick my 9th grader up from school yesterday for a orthodontist appt. and the appt. time was set so he could not ride the bus home and get there on time, so I picked him up just after the busses left the school so I wouldn't get caught in the traffic. WRONG! There was a line like nothing I had ever seen coming from that school---9/10's were kids driving. So I get him picked up and we're just about through the local burgh headed for a shorter cut than going thru town, when some punk in a red Mustang (he couldn't be older than 16 0r 17) cuts right in front of me, barely clearing my front bumper, no signal, nothing. Now even if my kids get their licenses as teens, they are not driving to school, and are sure not getting handed a car, even a junker, much less a $40,000 piece of machinery(MY car's original selling price NEW wasn't near that). Does anyone teach new drivers how to judge speed and distance of the cars traveling with you and toward you anymore? My driver's ed teacher sure did. He is also the reason I drive with my headlights on 99.9% of the time. At least the theory is that others will see my vehicle--although the way that kid drove, he sure didn't.
By the time I got to the orthodontist, I was absolutely positive that at least half the drivers on the road should have their licenses pulled, at least until they take a safety course or something.I also had a lady pulling off the interstate in an SUV which was apparently too big for her to see waht was coming up behind her, because as I was already traveling in the lane she wanted to be in, and she was merging---I had right of way, but ended up swerving into the right lane and praying no one was there since I didn't have time to do more than glance in my mirrors.
See I told you not to get me started..........
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