Road retards
At lunch instead of hitting the gym, I decided to run out and return the extra memory stick to Best Buy. The snowbirds are flocking back to our area and with them comes an increase with the moronic driving on the roads.
As I pulled out of our lot, maybe 200 feet up the road is the exit for a church. As I pulled out I saw a line of cars slamming on their brakes in the right lane. As they got a chance they all angrily whipped out around whatever obstacle was there. It turns out the obstacle was an older than dirt man, with the entire front end of his Honda Civic blocking half of the road. He was just sitting there, looking old and blocking traffic. There was noone behind him so he could have easily backed up but he didn’t, he just sat there. I hammered the horn hard as I went by this codger and threw up my arms in disgust.
As I got closer to Best Buy I had incident number two. The oncoming traffic had a green arrow to turn left in front of us. Our light turned green but we still had a stream of vehicles turning left. We were ten seconds into our green and we still had assholes turning left in front of us, the last idiot in the line of lemmings was a woman in a big SUV on her cellphone. Once again I rip into the horn, longer and louder this time, wanting to make sure the woman was well aware of her bullshit driving.
The last incident was on the way back. I was at a T intersection, waiting to turn left. The road I was waiting to turn onto had 3 lanes for traffic and two lanes for turning left onto the road I was on. The turning lanes for that road had a red arrow. Well yet again, another old man is driving, he is in the left most thru lane, next to the turning lanes. He decides that he too needs to turn left but he is not in the turning lane. Well he doesn’t care so he just stops his car in the thru lane and turns on his turn signal and sits there. His actions almost cause an accident as people jam on their brakes to stop and swerve around him. Once again, he doesn’t care, he sits there, oblivious to the traffic danger he is causing. The thru lane light turns red and this moron is hanging out in the intersection. My traffic got the green arrow to turn left. I was going to smash the horn one more time and give gramps a big, huge thumbs up for demonstrating such idiocy but I just let it slide. It is crazy. Old people need to be tested yearly for basic driving competence, it is terrible down here, they are a real road hazard.