I. Hate. Slow. Drivers. In. The. Fast. Lane.
Die. Die. Die painfully and slowly, the way that you have driven.
I cannot understand how a person could be so clueless as to dribble along, slowly enough for an arthritic octogenarian to do cartwheels around his vehicle, while a dozen cars pile up in utter frustration behind him, trying desperately and at peril of their lives to squeeze into whatever gap may finally open up in the other lanes.
I encountered such an idiot today, driving some kind of panel truck. For a good five minutes, he put-putted along I-95 at a speed usually employed by ducks waddling around a pond. Car after car rode his bumper but he was oblivious. In front of his benighted vehicle, the left lane was free and clear.
I tried and tried and finally my chance came. I gave him a look of pure hatred as I passed and made sure that he saw it. I jerked in front of him and slowed down nicely for a moment or two. It was a wasted lesson. As he vanished mercifully behind me, I could see that he had no intention of changing lanes, ever, and the line of traffic continued behind him.
My choices of torture for such a person would involve electric sanders, razor blades, vicious ants, rabid dogs, red hot skewers, colonic cleansing utilizing caustic chemicals and ground glass, forcibly-fed toadstool puree and a woodchipper.
Forcibly-fed toadstool puree?? Where do you come up with this stuff LOL. They say speed kills but slowness can cause unexpected road-rage.
ReplyDeleteHow about taking away his license permanently after the third report :)
LOL
ReplyDeletethose tortures are good, LOL
DANG!!! A sander? Ants AND dogs? Whoa. Such a vituperate is jarring coming from your normally peaceful self :)
ReplyDeleteSorry you experienced this frustration so early in the day, and hope a lunchtime walk clears your head and spirit.
My punishment for those people would be to send them back to take driving lessons. It would be a harsh one, as they clearly didn't enjoy learning in the first place.
ReplyDeleteToo bad there isn't a course in common sense.
I love the title, by the way.
Janice, it bubbles up from the dark depths of my soul every now and then.
ReplyDeleteI do believe that most people try to do good most of the time. I just can't stand the ones who make no such effort.
But I need to calm down. Some brain-dead soul whipped around me one night recently, passing me in a no-passing zone across double yellow lines around a corner IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA in which I was going the speed limit.
Quite a different scenario than today's freeway incident, methinks.
I laid on the horn and left my brights shining right into his annoying face until he and I parted ways a block or two further on.
I must stop. People that stupid sometimes carry guns. And they don't learn from their mistakes.
Carmen: Believe me, five minutes behind that guy gave me plenty of time to think of more.
Rebecca: Such a walk would have been great but today stayed too busy for that. However, a night with no meetings to attend is just as capable of restoring my soul balance.
Choppy. Very choppy. :)
ReplyDeleteI wonder if there was such a thing as horse and buggy rage? One carthorse going too slow for a stylish turnout to proceed?
Woodchipper...er...chopper.
Love you ECD. Give'em hell.