The Big Green House

Thursday, May 22, 2003

 

Those snakes are lethal

Granted, It�s been a long time since I�ve driven on anything like a regular basis; something like three years and change, I think. Still, things seem to have gotten a lot uglier on the road than I remember. On my way in to work today, I was passed on the right while I was trying to dodge an oncoming car that had crossed the double yellow line. Yesterday, while I was driving Science Girl around* for a few errands, someone almost backed into us in a parking lot, someone else nearly hit us by making an illegal U-turn, and some hammerhead on the freeway just missed clipping the front end of our car while making a lane change sans turn signal. We also saw someone make a right turn from the left-hand lane, thereby causing the car in the right lane to slam on his/her brakes.

Did they abolish the rules of driving while I was on hiatus? Is it time for me to get my Road Warrior on? Because I can get the haircut, and while our Subaru Impreza Outback Sport** is hardly a V-8 Interceptor we could probably� um, we could� well, we could paint it black, anyway.

*SG doesn�t drive. That�s why I�ve got the car.
**This is not our actual car, but it looks just like this one. Really.

bmarkey 5/22/2003 06:01:00 PM