TRAVELING SOUTH
Yesterday we traveled down to
Portland Maine is
nothing compared to the highways around Boston ,
New Your, Minneapolis
I was doing seventy in the
right lane and groups of cars were passing me in the left lane traveling at least eighty
- bumper to bumper – only a car length between them. It would only requires one driver to hit the
brake to avoid a dog or deer, or drop his cell phone and the cars would pile up
like falling dominoes.
Why in the hell do drivers
feel they have to ride the bumper of the car in front of them – especially at
high speeds on the freeways?
And then there was the car
that drifted into my lane causing me to swerve almost to the rumble strip and
blow my horn to avoid collision. She
pulled back into her lane, passed and then a few car lengths ahead of me
swerved back in and then out of the right lane… obviously reading text on her
phone instead of focusing on her driving.
I sometimes wish I had a Mad
Max vehicle with a plow on the front and could just run these people off the
road.
Oh well, back home again and
all is well
The Ol’Buzzard
argh, makes me crazy..something that has happened to me about half a dozen times and makes me nuts..IH-35 is under construction and in places there are 3 lanes and then back to 2 lanes..I'm in the middle lane going 85 (speed limit is 75) some one will come up behind me, ride my ass for 3 miles or so and then squeeze in between me and the simi on the right instead of passing on the left which is fecking empty...makes me want to follow them home and beat the crap out of them in their drive way.
ReplyDeletecheap thrills :)
ReplyDeleteI used to wish for a TOW system. A few anti-tank missiles would have helped a lot with the idiot driver problem on the freeway.
ReplyDeleteI always wanted an Aston Martin fully equipped like the one Sean Connery had in the early James Bond flicks! My last driving experiences in the USA were on the streets of NYC. Sheer terror? Try the Major Deagan Expressway in the Bronx...There are laws here in France about the Distance de Securitie between vehicles. Most people seem to respect them except drivers from Bordeaux, who seem to think they are immortal. I stay away from license plates with a 33 on them.....(That's the Gironde, the departement Bordeaux is in)
ReplyDeleteI had to add the absolutely scariest driving experience of my life...at least when I was behind the wheel...On a cliff clinging road late at night in Corsica outside of Propriano...and being dogged by Corsican maniacs who were on my ass with their brights on! Even with my brights on, I couldn't see the road, just the drop into the void and moonlit sea far below.....no where to pull over, no way for the inebriated jerks to pass me and they kept honking their horns trying to get me to go faster...
ReplyDeleteThis phenomenon is quite common. It is called "batshit crazy!" in scientific circles! ha ha ha
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