Thursday Thirteen number 16
Published Thu, Aug 9 2007 7:18 AM
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Thirteen questions about stupid drivers
I should point out that I've observed every one of these things recently on the roads in Washington and Oregon. The one that frightens me the most is number 4, which I see almost daily.
- How fast do you drive compared to the posted speed limit? Ten to fifteen miles over? Five to twenty miles under?
- Do you use your turn signals when you change lanes? When you do use them, do you remember to turn them off? Or use the turn signal that corresponds to the turn you're about to (eventually) make?
- Do you actually stop at a red light before turning right, or do you just sort of slow down and drive through anyway? Does that yellow light really mean "speed up"?
- Do you read a novel on your way to work? While you're driving? How about a map, opened up and spread across your front windshield, while you're going 45mph on the freeway? In the left lane?
- Do you honestly believe everyone in the cars around you in traffic needs to share your taste in music?
- Do you pass on the right? At seventy miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone?
- When traffic is backed up on the freeway, do you drive on the shoulder to the next exit?
- When traffic is backed up on the freeway because the lane you're in is going to close, and there have been signs warning you that it's going to close, do you stay in it until you get to the last possible point to merge, forcing people that have been waiting for twenty minutes to let you in?
- Do you ride your motorcycle between lanes of traffic?
- Do you insist on driving your motorcycle at twice the posted speed limit, just because it's small and light and can out accelerate those cars stuck behind each other?
- Do you use the H.O.V. lanes as passing lanes even though you don't have any other occupants in your vehicle?
- Do you drive fast to pass everyone as though you were in a race and then cut across three lanes of traffic to take the exit?
- Do you insist on driving in the left lane with your cell phone glued to your ear by one hand while you weave about the road ten miles per hour under the speed limit with the other hand on the wheel holding a big mac?
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spyscribbler responded with:
 | Wow! I don't want to live where you do. Very scary. I have never seen anyone read and drive at the same time. I think I'd lose my temper over that one!
Happy TT! |
Matthew James Didier responded with: This should be the madatory drivers re-exam...
 | I remember a while back, I think it might have been George Carlin, suggested the "stupid" system for drivers. All drivers are issued a "pistol" with sticky darts and a flag that says "Stupid" on it. You get three darts only. Cars with more than three darts are immediately pulled over and cited for being stupid. Cars with dozens of darts are immediately impounded. |
Kristee responded with:
 | I never pass on the right and usually drive at 5mh over the speed limit. It drives me crazy when people drive on the shoulder in backed up traffic. What really annoys me is when men road rage me. How pathetic for them to try and intimidate a lady. grrr People get behind the wheel and forget their manners.
Happy TT!
Kristee :) |
David responded with:
 | And to think, if you hadn't limited yourself to ONLY thirteen... I've seen all these and more in just the last week, just driving a 60 mile stretch of road a couple of times a day south of America's Third World County and back...
*heh*
Lovely Daughter proposed--after a guy plowed through a red light and t-boned her ("I saw the red light, but I thought I could make it"--his statement on the police report! Practicing for his Darwin Award, I think... )--that stupid drivers have their cars taken away and put up for auction for folks who aren't stupid to buy.
Wouldn't work. "Detroit" (or whatever passes for that meme today) would go under, the economy would collapse, fire and brimstone would rain from the heavens... OK, maybe not that. Maybe. I swear, though, the American economy depends on stupid people. |
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