02 March 2006

Too special

I am tired of 'special' people. Mostly drivers now, since I stopped taking the train into town last year and thus avoid 'special' pedestrians.
'Special' people are those who consider themselves too 'special' to obey the traffic laws that most of the rest of us work with on a daily basis.
Nah, I'm not talking speeders (though those kids with their little rice-rocket cars zooming through traffic certainly qualify), as nearly everybody speeds at one time or another.
I'm talking about people who:
  • make a right hand turn from the left-turn-only lane across two or three lanes
  • take their half of the road out of the middle
  • change lanes without a turn signal or without looking
  • turn suddenly into a street or driveway without a turnsignal
  • mosey onto the freeway at half the speed of traffic, then suddenly accelerate to more than the speed limit
  • stop in the middle of the street to have an unnecessary conversation, whether with their passenger, an oncoming car, or a pedestrian

There are other styles out there that make the list, but this will do for a start.

Unfortunately, there appears to be no clear consensus on reinstituting the old system of "heads on stakes at the city limit"...

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