As I stopped at a street crossing southwest of Lincoln today, a woman with quite fashionable oversized sunglasses decided she only needed to look left for her right hand turn and, while carrying on what I sure was a critically important conversation in her live, started to one hand the wheel and turn right into me. I looked up, catch her daughter's petrified eyes as her Mom then saw me but, of course, instead of stopping, Mom decided the solution was to punch it, cross over the other side of the road and then rip a hard right turn in front of me. Of course, then she gunned it down the road in a great impersonation of a getaway drive.
Ride it like you stole it, but drive it like you might have killed him.
I've told Mrs. Snob that if I do ever get ran down and the driver is identified to have someone check the driver's cell phone records. Since it will likely come down to a "he said, she said," that could be the only 'true' account you might get from the driver.
In a strange twist of circumstance, the rest of the gravel driving public, including several white trucks and SUVs, almost seemed to, not only know of, but be offended by this woman's ridiculous driving. Acknowledging, waving and generally driving like champs and making me remember that most people are pretty reasonable, it's just the idiots we remember most.
Be safe everyone. (Cliche count? I number it at five.)
1 comment:
i hate that f'ing bullshite! been working with state legislators on instituting a cell phone ban (except for hands free devices) in CO the lat few weeks. it is out of committee and heading for a vote.
we lost a 9 year old girl (on a bike) in fort collins on Thanksgiving day to a woman who ran her over while talking on a cell phone. people need to get an f'ing clue.
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