I have griped about the drivers here before, but I've had two bad experiences in the past week that have been completely avoidable. I was trying to decide which one was more angering, but I just couldn't decide. Today I was driving down Main Street on my lunch break when I saw this car pull up to the intersection that was a stop sign for her. I was close enough to see she was on her phone, that's how close I was. She looks right at me, then pulls out into traffic. Ok, fine, it's a 4 lane road. But for some reason, she insisted on turning directly in front of my across the first lane and into mine. I had to slow down to miss her. HANG UP THE PHONE! I've been trying to control myself when I drive, because I do get wound up. But stupid things like that I just can't let go easily. Almost a completely preventable accident if the other driver would just pay attention.
So, the second one. This one actually happened on Monday I think it was. I was headed to work, and was only 2 blocks from home. We had gotten the snow, and things were quite slippery here, even in town. So, I'm headed down a one way, and out of the corner of my eye in the alley that I'm approaching, I see an older blazer come flying down the alley, going somewhere close to 30 mph. Well, he was trying to stop flying, but it was now obvious that it was quite icy, and he had is breaks locked up. I was going to reach the intersection with alley about in time to have him hit me right between the doors. So I tried to carefully make my way to the far curb (good thing it was a one way) and was about to scrape it with my tire, when the blazer finally stopped missing me by less than a foot. WHY WOULD YOU DRIVE 30 MPH DOWN AN ALLEY ON AN ICY MORNING! It's a good thing I didn't get hit by either of these two, because I'm sure the road rage would have taken over at that point. I just hate stupid people.
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