Wednesday, June 29, 2011

driving psychology and true confessions

Hello all!  I don't think I'm the only one that's noticed this trend...the trend of normally rational, sane people's personality completely changing when they get behind the wheel of a motor vehicle.  I've dubbed this phenomenon "driving psychology", though I doubt anyone with an actual medical degree in the field of psychology would back me up on this.  Not that there isn't plenty of evidence (admittedly anecdotal) to back this up, I just doubt they'd be willing to spend hard begged for earned research dollars doing an actual study on the matter.  Now I'm willing to give these people the benefit of the doubt and assume that they're good, hardworking, productive citizens on foot...however, behind the wheel of a car, a lot of them are a**holes and some seem just plain dumb. Not all of them, but a LOT.  I personally ran across several today, and I was only driving for about 15 minutes.  Please allow me to give a few examples...

Things I'd like to say to other drivers today:
1: Hey dude, it's been like 5 blocks, when are you actually turning?  Do you NOT hear the dinging noise letting you know your turn signal is on?
2: What's the big idea with waiting till I'm less than 5 feet away from you to pull out of that driveway? And why did you slow down as I almost had to swerve to miss your bumper?
3: Way to stop for that light at the last-possible-second! Good thing I wasn't tailgating you!
And while we're on the subject of tailgaiting...
4: DUDE, where's the fire?! There is a little thing called a speed limit on this road, how bout going it when you're behind me?  If you're gonna ride my a**, at least pull my hair!
To the guy in front of me at the light...
5: There's no one coming from the other way, you can make a right on red...in fact, please do!
To random guy on highway...
6: Did you really just get up on the highway only to take the next exit? Are you too good for the access road? And did you have to slow down so I'd miss my exit because I couldn't get over?
To another guy in front of me at another light...
7: Seriously, the light is green.  Feel free to turn right any time now!
8: You know that thing on the side of your steering wheel that you currently use as a hat rack?  It's called a turn signal dumbass...people use it to let other drivers know when they want to turn or switch lanes. We're not mindreaders you know!
And finally, to the person in front of me at the stop sign...
9: Wake UP stoner!  Hate to break your heart, but that stop sign is never going to turn green...it's been well over a minute, make a move!

And that concludes that little soapbox for today.  I'll let you average out how many idiots-per-minute that was later. Well, I guess that's about all for now...until next time!

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