Thursday, January 17, 2008

Humiliation

I tend to have road rage, I know that, but generally I think I'm a decent driver. I try to be courteous. But, 1 thing that drives me absolutely mad is when people going onto the highway merge onto the off ramp but they're going 20 km/hr and the people coming off the highway are going 100. This happens continuously at my Exit to work. The worst was when a truck almost plowed into me because they did not even shoulder check. There is no merge lane and a yield sign - which if you are paying attention means YIELD, slow down, the other person has the right of way. But, apparently to 70% of Lower Mainland drivers this means speed up and cut off the person coming. That's all fine and dandy but they can only speed up so much and compared to how fast you're going it doesn't help and today I was forced to slam on my breaks so I would not rear-end a big truck. The humiliation part is coming up soon. So, trucks piss me off more often than regular cars because they're 100x larger than Little Car and cut me off either because they can't even see me or because they know I have to accommodate them or they'll crush me. Therefore, a truck that merges instead of yields REALLY pisses me off. So, this morning as I slammed on my breaks I honked and then realized just how lame my horn sounded. I mean 'beep' is not at all threatening, nor does it convey the depth of feeling I'm experiencing. I need a scary intimidating horn so even the big trucks that try to run me off the road will fear me. I think it's time to pimp up Little Car, then everyone who should yield will yield because they'll be afraid of coming near me. I think it's a brilliant idea. I'll have to look into this.

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