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Sep. 1st, 2004 08:28 amI REALLY hate the drivers down here. They all suck goat shit. :p
Kristen and I have noticed that alot of people are in huge rushes: rushes that make them reckless and stupid on the road. An example of this, irritating but not the end of the world was my commute to work today: I got off of Baltimore-Washington Parkway onto Laurel-Bowie Road. The exit ramp is actually two lanes that merges into one right in front of Laurel-Bowie Road. So I'm slowing down since the speed of the expressway is 55 and the speed limit on the road is 40. No problem. Suddenly, this guy who was at my right speeds way up and cuts me off so he can get in front of me and then I watch as he gets onto Laurel-Bowie Road and swerves in and out of lanes so that he can stay in front of everyone else.
ASSHOLE!
But what's really got me seeing red right now was the intersection of Laurel-Bowie Road and Muirkirk Road.
Hold on, let me see if I can't find a map for y'all. Laurel-Bowie and Muirkirk is a busy four way intersection. Laurel-Bowie leads straight into Laurel and Bowie.. on one side is a mini-plaza and the other, a road leading to residential apartments with a school.
SO... ANYWAYS.. the Light, for whatever reason, is out. And there's no cop around. I get there and the intersection is actually pretty clear. No traffic along Muirkirk Road, but steady traffic going down Laurel-Bowie towards the way I came. I need to make a left onto Muirkirk. So I signal and wait figuring that a red light would hit up ahead on Laurel-Bowie and I'd make my left. Then suddenly two trucks ZOOM in from the plaza on Muirkirk, including an armored truck and sit there in the middle of the intersection trying to make a left.
Meanwhile, continual steady traffic on Laurel-Bowie and no one is letting them in. Finally they get through and I figure that if I want to take this left, I need to move up a little so as to "mark my territory". Move up just a little bit when another ASSHOLE comes ZOOMING in from the plaza on Muirkirk.
Ensue a steady stream of profanity from my otherwise virgin mouth.
Not that it helped. I wasn't going into the middle of the intersection because, frankly, I ain't that stupid and I don't want a major dent in my car for BEING that stupid, so this asshole goes through and takes his left and then I just grab the next available left (red light finally hit at the next intersection ahead so traffic thinned out quite a bit) and came to work cursing.
God, I really hate this fucking city sometimes :p
Kristen and I have noticed that alot of people are in huge rushes: rushes that make them reckless and stupid on the road. An example of this, irritating but not the end of the world was my commute to work today: I got off of Baltimore-Washington Parkway onto Laurel-Bowie Road. The exit ramp is actually two lanes that merges into one right in front of Laurel-Bowie Road. So I'm slowing down since the speed of the expressway is 55 and the speed limit on the road is 40. No problem. Suddenly, this guy who was at my right speeds way up and cuts me off so he can get in front of me and then I watch as he gets onto Laurel-Bowie Road and swerves in and out of lanes so that he can stay in front of everyone else.
ASSHOLE!
But what's really got me seeing red right now was the intersection of Laurel-Bowie Road and Muirkirk Road.
Hold on, let me see if I can't find a map for y'all. Laurel-Bowie and Muirkirk is a busy four way intersection. Laurel-Bowie leads straight into Laurel and Bowie.. on one side is a mini-plaza and the other, a road leading to residential apartments with a school.
SO... ANYWAYS.. the Light, for whatever reason, is out. And there's no cop around. I get there and the intersection is actually pretty clear. No traffic along Muirkirk Road, but steady traffic going down Laurel-Bowie towards the way I came. I need to make a left onto Muirkirk. So I signal and wait figuring that a red light would hit up ahead on Laurel-Bowie and I'd make my left. Then suddenly two trucks ZOOM in from the plaza on Muirkirk, including an armored truck and sit there in the middle of the intersection trying to make a left.
Meanwhile, continual steady traffic on Laurel-Bowie and no one is letting them in. Finally they get through and I figure that if I want to take this left, I need to move up a little so as to "mark my territory". Move up just a little bit when another ASSHOLE comes ZOOMING in from the plaza on Muirkirk.
Ensue a steady stream of profanity from my otherwise virgin mouth.
Not that it helped. I wasn't going into the middle of the intersection because, frankly, I ain't that stupid and I don't want a major dent in my car for BEING that stupid, so this asshole goes through and takes his left and then I just grab the next available left (red light finally hit at the next intersection ahead so traffic thinned out quite a bit) and came to work cursing.
God, I really hate this fucking city sometimes :p
