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Thursday, March 03, 2011

Is it illegal if its nice?

The drivers down here seem to think its ok to perform illegal maneuvers, like stop in the middle of an intersection to let someone who's turning right get in ahead of them, or stop when they have no stop sign to do the same, or let multiple cars merge in ahead of them...well, that's not really illegal, but it IS irritating. And they do this for no other reason than to be nice. To get warm fuzzies. They are fuzzy junkies. Its not just isolated incidents, either, its EVERYONE. And the cops do nothing. Why? Because its NICE. They are being NICE. It is Robin Hood Syndrome (RHS), it really is. But there is a problem. If everyone lets in a car or two ahead of them, say 3 seconds a car, then the people who are 50 cars behind you have to wait an extra 2-3 minutes! And that's if traffic is MOVING. And THEN you get the people who merge in and then let OTHER people merge in down the road. Compounded niceness. I am not a mean person, I let people in from time to time, but it is neither flagrant nor illegal.

And don't get me started on the retardidity (is that a word? it should be!) of turn signal usage. Random merging? No signal. Changing lanes? No signal. Actually turning? No signal. However, when sitting in a TURN ONLY lane, signals aplenty! What...the...heck?!?!?! You are in a TURN ONLY lane! You have NO CHOICE but to turn! I KNOW what direction your car is going to go in! But then they'll get next to me and just start switching lanes randomly.

Road rage aside (I imagine my road rage face being like Mr. Demartino's from "Daria"...pulsing veins, raspy voice, bulging eyeball, cerebral hemorrhage imminent) things are going fairly well. The lawn war is looking grim...weeds aplenty. Stupid bermuda grass, why you gotta grow SO SLOW?! It does make me feel better that no one else's yard in the neighborhood looks any better than mine at present.

That is all. Back to work. :)

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