OK, Mr Caddilac.
I know you own the road because you have so much money you can afford to drive a new caddie. You don’t have to obey the laws because the laws were written for someone other than you.
So pulling out right in front of me forcing me to swerve dramatically into the outside lane is perfectly within your right, I understand, and in no way do I ever have any right to challenge that.
The laws of physics, and the cement truck that was following me, well, that is a whole different story. I’m sure that will buff out.
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Yep, law of gross tonnage… :-)
Once a body is in motion……It is good to witness Karma in action…Course I can’t enjoy it too much…
Well, the only things the cement truck can do is improve the looks of the Caddy, and, if hit with enough velocity, help cleanse the gene pool a bit. If the Caddy driver hasn’t bred yet that is. Glad you escaped the mayhem. Nothing else, hopefully Mr. Caddy is out of commission for a bit.
Difference between a dog and a Cadillac? Dog has it’s asshole on the outside!
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
You would think with all the potential horsepower under the hood of that caddy, going too slow would not be an issue….then again, if the driver is no longer able to see above the stirring wheel….because their head is soooo far up their ass….
Glad to hear you were able to avoid mayhem on the interstate.
I love a happy ending. *sniff*
Reminds me of the time I was riding the bus to work up the NJ Turnpike. We’d gotten an early morning snowfall, and the Turnpike was covered with 3-4 inches of white stuff (and if the TP is covered you REALLY need to consider whether you need to go to work that day). The bus was doing a sensible speed (35-40) given the conditions. Then this full-sized Bronco goes shag-assing up the left lane at about 65. About two miles up the road there he was high-centered on the guardrail. No one ever told him 4WD doesn’t change the co-efficient of friction nor allow you to stop or turn at high speeds when said co-efficient is sub-optimal.
Personally, I’m just glad there WAS a guardrail, rather than him crossing into on-coming traffic and taking out someone else.
“You did not see the gravel truck passing on the curve. Too much fun. Too little luck. YOU DIDN’T HAVE TIME TO SWERVE!!!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VceW6F9ZsM.
“Now the crows be pickin’ at yo flesh and you got no control of da sitcheeashun.”
car-ma
Mark D
My experience, as well. Snow on the Turnpike was a nightmare, less because of the snow, more because of some Jersey drivers.
Some years back, we were driving from Indy to PA to visit the in-laws. There had been a late spring ice/snow event that had things pretty slicked up on I-70 east of Indy. So we were taking it easy, tooling along about 30 and not worrying too much about making time because we knew the storm line stopped out around New Castle and the roads were clear east of there.
Some crazy woman in a Toyota Camry with Carmel plates apparently didn’t see it that way, and blew past us in the left lane doing about 50. Mind you that the left lane didn’t even have tire tracks in it. We both commented how nuts that was.
Said crazy woman got about a quarter mile in front of us and hit a patch of black ice. She did a 180 and slid off into the median, weaving back and forth between the lanes (it was a depressed median so it was like watching a clock pendulum going back and forth) and ended up faced back west smack damn in the middle of the median.
We tooled past, still at about 30, and it appeared that she was OK (other than being madder than a wet hen, I imagine) so I said, “Maybe you’d better call 911.” And Sally called it in.
About 10 miles later the road cleared and we didn’t see another snowflake after that. For the life of me I could never figure out why that lady was in such a hurry.
I’m weeping with glee! ;-)