You know, I understand
why you drove at exactly the speed limit past the police station, I really do.
I mean, you have the new Charger, in red, with the big engine, and the sport package, and just the noise it makes screams ‘Arrest me”.
But when the speed limit got to 65, you could have done- you know- 65.
I have been making this commute a long time. I have literally always driven 70-75 for the whole commute, where possible. Ordinarily 10% of the people pass me, and I pass 10%, and 80% are driving the same speed.
lately I have noticed- at least in good weather- that there’s a solid 20-30% passing me. And it isn’t young guys in hot cars, it’s cellphone bitches in Tiguans and E classes and other milfboxes.
WTF?
And the guy in the carwash? Look, when the car behind you BUMPS INTO YOU, that’s your signal to MOVE. You do not have to wait for the light.
Recently in town two new crosswalks were put in place on a busy six-lane boulevard (three lanes each way) – and by State law you have to stop for pedestrians who attempt to cross. A couple kids were at the cross-walk entrance down by the fire-station and nobody was zooming up behind me to rear-end me, so I slowed and stopped. The fine is about $300 for failure to yield right-of-way. Up ahead we noticed a LOT of police activity at a gas station, and then a guy in a bright yellow shirt, the same bright color as the “Yield to Pedestrians” sign walked out into traffic and a cop on the sidewalk waved at a car and they started harvesting another crop of dumbass motorists… It was like a Cop-Hukilau!!
Musta done a couple Grand to the city coffers in just those few minutes – that’s City fine-money that doesn’t have to go back to the State.
Any city that puts up a 25mph speed zone on a 45mph dual-lane divided road at the bottom of a hill coming both directions ought to have its mayor and city council lynched in the town square.
And that city would be Indianapolis for its school zone on Michigan Road just north of White River.
I hate school zones. There is no defensible reason for them to be constantly in operation from 7:30 AM to 4:00 PM; put up traffic lights if you want to control traffic around schools. And make them go to caution blinkers during non-school hours/days, and fine the fucking school board if they stay red/green during non-school hours.
And it isn’t young guys in hot cars, it’s cellphone bitches in Tiguans and E classes and other milfboxes.
It ain’t what you got, it’s how you drive it.
Which is why my ancient beater Mercedes is filled with my muttering of “get your god-damned Ultimate Driving Machine out of my way already!”
[I nearly said “STI”, but then I recalled that the people who buy the WRX STI actually drive pretty fast most of the time.])