Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Drivers - and I use the term loosely
It's time for my usual rant this morning. First at the Post Office. Our Post Office hasn't the best parking around and the incompetents who use it make it all the worse. This morning three nitwits managed to take up six parking spaces. And it wasn't like they were high-priced cars that didn't want to get scratched - they were mostly old junkers that anyone wouldn't park too close to anyway for fear of contamination.
I leave the Post Office and head down the street and some guy in a green Aztec (which really has to rate as one of the ugliest vehicle designs ever) stops, makes a U-turn in front of me, and then pulls into a parking lot. Then he backs out right in front of me.
Next I'm at the intersection in the extra right-hand turn lane. There is no cross traffic and some person in a big-ass Buick (probably some old lady, I couldn't see for sure) is sitting there with her turn signal on and waiting for something - sunset I guess. I flash my lights a couple of times and finally toot my horn - not a long mad blast, but a friendly short toot mind you - and she finally makes her turn. And of course she then drives about 30 mph down the 45 mph road. She gets to the next light and stops - did I mention the light was green? This time my toot isn't quite so friendly. Finally she turns right and pulls into a drive down the street. Nothing like a nice relaxing drive to work.
