Sunday, August 17, 2003
The traffic rant never gets boring for me. :P
On the way back to the apartment to drop off some cleaning supplies, and then on the rush to get back home so we can go pick up Thing 2 in a little bit, I ran into 4 types of drivers on my Peeved List.
1. Cars who hog the left lane as their own, but drive at their own slow pace when there's no cars immediately in front of them. As soon as a fast car gets in front of them, then they start speeding up. Saw this happen when a minivan sped in front of the car in front of me. Zoom. We were suddenly off. As soon as the van switched lanes, we were back down to hovering just below the speed limit. I switched lanes, zipped way ahead in the next lane until there was at least a mile between me and the slow car. As soon as I was in the left lane again, that car was tailing me within five seconds. Dude. Grrr.
2. People who drive slow. In a SUV. In a BMW SUV. Doing 55 on a 65 mph zone. First, you're driving a BMW. Second, you're driving a SUV. What... are you scared of the road? Afraid it's going to open up and swallow you if you use your expensive, aggressive power to charge ahead? Or are you scared because most cops like to target SUVs and sports cars? Because, sweetie, the sooner you come to accept that ALL of Jersey is a speed trap, the happier we'll all be in uniform traffic law-'abiding"-ness.
3. NY drivers.
4. PA drivers. Welcome to Jersey, where 90% of our state isn't rolling hills, valleys, and farmland, and we actually have roads and people. I don't really hate them, you see. And I'm not going to knock them for their driving skills. It sucks enough for them that they're from PA.
Gender-ish peeve:
Why is it that just because I'm a girl, I have to be the one to pick out the shower curtain and the pattern of the shelf liners? Dude. Whatever. This is just a temp apartment, and I want to be cheap and practical. Curtains or shelf paper in solids, or florals, or skull/crossbones designs. I don't give two shits. Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I'm supposed to, either.
And one of those impossible questions:
Let's say that you're stuck on a three-lane highway. Trucks are clogging the right lane. There's a NY driver in a left lane, and a PA driver in the other left lane. No cars are in front of either car, and they're going at roughly the same speed -- which is slow and disappointingly, actually at the speed limit. Which car has the greater potential of speeding up so you can get in front of the other one (and to highway traffic freedom)? The "far left lane" is not necessarily the "correct" answer since Jerseyans pass on the right, too. There is, unofficially, no slow/right lane around here. :P
Bleh. To the airport I go. Was kinda nice without the Thing 2 around for a week, but I guess her return means I have someone else to rant about. If it comes to that. Heh.
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