Traffic Update

Beware on the road, Grainiacs!

There is a crazy driver with the vanity plates STrAwBeRrY out there so keep your eyes open.

I do not know what has gotten into me but I have become some deranged, aggressive motorist lately.

It could be the fact that everyone in my area has seemed to received their driver's license as a prize out of a cereal box.  NO ONE is looking out for the other guy!!!

Just yesterday three people pulled out in front of me as if I were not even there.  The first thing was when a car stopped at a red light looked right and left of himself but not in front of himself!  Oncoming traffic must have slipped his mind.  Second one happened as I was traveling down a road with a speed limit of 45 mph and a car coming out of his neighborhood rolled through his stop sign and sauntered in front of me only to immediately turn left.  Problem: there was a car coming so he had to stop AND there was no one behind me!  Now tell me, why did he have to pull out in front of me only to stop?   Third thing: waiting in line for gas.  The motorcycle was facing me so as he was moving out a SUV whipped into the spot I was waiting for!!!  How many of you have read "Fried Green Tomatoes?"  Wasn't there an instant when our mild-mannered heroine turned into CraZy Towanda and continued to bang into the young thing's car that took her parking spot?  Well, I was ready to grab the gas hose and not let that SUV fill up.  Instead I sat there and then honked....of course to no avail.  The idiot boy jumped out and walked into the convenience store to pay.  I was still steaming that night and thought up different scenarios....like whipping my little car sideways and using my card at the pump and filling up while he was trying to pay inside!  Or getting into his car and popping it into neutral and pushing it backwards (thinking that one through a little more was not such a good idea....what if it kept going and hit another car??).

In other words, I need to realize I live in an area with idiots for drivers and I have to calm myself, laugh it off, and say a prayer that Towanda remains in a book and not lived out by me.  (Did you notice all three instances involved men drivers???  The first male idiot was a 70-ish man; second idiot was 50-ish; third idiot was 20-ish.  There's no hope!)

Keep safe out there, Grainiacs.