I Fear For the Future of Our Nation
Feb. 13th, 2006 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stickmakerToday's Stupid Driver Tricks (and this is just driving back from lunch):
Woman with a cell phone in one hand and cigarette in the other. Her method of driving was to occasionally put the cigarette in her mouth and nudge the steering wheel. (I wonder, if I had been able to watch longer, would she have put the cell phone in her mouth by mistake, then burned her ear on the ciggie?)
Woman who lunged into traffic from her driveway, coming abruptly out from between two parked cars which blocked her view of the street and my view of her car. She drove to the end of the street (about three houses down) and made a U-turn to go the other way. (To be fair, there was a median.)
Woman in a van driving at high speed partly in my lane, as I entered the parking garage. (I had to come to a complete stop with the back of my car still under the security barrier, because there was NO WAY she was going to get all the way over into her lane just because something was coming the other way.)
Finally, a pedestrian walking in my lane on the other side of a blind turn in the parking structure, even though there was a sidewalk provided for that purpose just two medium steps to his left.
Woman with a cell phone in one hand and cigarette in the other. Her method of driving was to occasionally put the cigarette in her mouth and nudge the steering wheel. (I wonder, if I had been able to watch longer, would she have put the cell phone in her mouth by mistake, then burned her ear on the ciggie?)
Woman who lunged into traffic from her driveway, coming abruptly out from between two parked cars which blocked her view of the street and my view of her car. She drove to the end of the street (about three houses down) and made a U-turn to go the other way. (To be fair, there was a median.)
Woman in a van driving at high speed partly in my lane, as I entered the parking garage. (I had to come to a complete stop with the back of my car still under the security barrier, because there was NO WAY she was going to get all the way over into her lane just because something was coming the other way.)
Finally, a pedestrian walking in my lane on the other side of a blind turn in the parking structure, even though there was a sidewalk provided for that purpose just two medium steps to his left.
