About motorcycle jerks...

Now I need to say right from the start that I DO NOT think that all persons who drive motorcycles are jerks, in fact at one point I even had my motorcycle license. However, as with anything in life, there are jerks that ruin it for everyone.

So, I was on my way home last week crossing the great state of Ohio. I was driving along having a wonderful conversation with my spouse and noticed a leathered-up motorcycle dude and his lady weaving in and out of traffic ahead of us. Since I have experience with motorcycles and motorcyclist, I try to be very aware of them on the road and give them space and what-not. However, this dude was driving very dangerously and neither of them were wearing helmets.

I commented about this guy and my husband agreed that people are stupid and if natural selection was what it should be, this guy would have never reached his present age.

So we continue moving along at our own pace and I go to pass this guy. I was behind a Saturn and while I wasn't on his tail, there was definitely not enough room for another vehicle to get in-between; well you can guess what happened. This douche on the motorcycle cuts in front of me. Well I slammed on my breaks because it freaked me out and got very annoyed at him for his irresponsible and dangerous behavior. He got back over after he had passed the car and I began to move up again to pass him. As I sped up he cut me off again, this time more closely. Well at this point I was starting to get pissed. I do not do well with people driving like jerks, cutting in, or being dangerous, especially when they are on a tiny hunk of metal with no helmets on.

So he passed the slower car and got in the middle lane again and as I came back up again the chick leaned in as soon as she saw me in her peripheral and he cut me off again. So I laid on my horn as I was sufficiently pissed. This guy was not only driving like an idiot, he was purposely trying to piss me off. I'm not sure why, but this ass was getting his rocks off on driving like an idiot. Maybe it impressed his lady friend. But whatever it was, it was making me angry.

As he got back over I zoomed forward to pass him and get on with my life. At this point I was so angry that I was having trouble driving safely. No shock, right as I got up there he cut me off again (and there was no car to pass this time). I laid on my horn for a good five seconds and did not back off this time. In fact, I was close enough that I made my husband nervous. The stupid ass got back over and got off the exit, which made it abundantly clear that the only reason he had changed lanes the last time was to piss me off. I don't think I have ever been that angry while driving before. I was so angry I got off at the next exit because I was so angry and upset that I was shaking.

Sometimes motorcyclists are asses. People in cars could literally kill them, and that ought to be taken into consideration. I was so angry I wanted to tap the cycle, and that’s bad! Man, I hate it when people are idiots, and I hate it even more when those idiots are on the road.

So here's the thing about motorcycle jerks, do us all a favor and let natural selection take it's course.

About Windshield Wipers

So my windshield wiper broke this week. You know in the winter when there's all sorts of snow and ice and you accidentally hit the windshield wiper button and it tries to go but can't because of ice? Well that evidently totally screws up the wiper arm (not just the blade). Without pointing fingers, the other person who drives my car did this at some point when I was not in the car last week.

So we were travelling this week and I hit the thing to turn the wipers on and the passenger wiper went but the driver's side blade only jumped a few inches but didn't go all the way up, leaving a terrible streak on my windshield and hindering my view, so I'm thinking, what the hell?

So my unnamed friend said, "oh when it was icy last week I accidentally hit the wiper blades, that's probably what happened, it'll be ok. " So we try to fix it and it worked ok once he got out and moved it up a little. So I guess it was just slipping. So I think that everything is probably ok and we drive north for a yearly trip. We get further and further up north and the snow starts spitting. You know the kind of snow that spits at your windshield and splatters from the other vehicles on the road? The kind for which you only occasionally turn on the blades? Well I finally have to turn them on and of course I'm nervous, and of course the same thing happens which only makes the view worse.

We have to stop for gas anyway so I run by an Auto Parts store and to ask what's going on and OF COURSE, the wiper blades start working as they are supposed to. Cars, I'm convinced, are instruments of the devil. So they are working fine for the time being but I'm convinced that when it starts snowing tommorow, as it is supposed to, I will be SOL again. Stupid windshield wipers.

So here's the thing about windshield wipers...I don't like them, that's all. I don't like how they only have three dumb settings: so slow you forget they're on, just barely too slow to be useful, and so fast that they squeak. I don't like how you have to knock them off every five minutes when it snows. And I don't like how they have so much influence on my automobile experience, I don't like windshield wipers.

About the right of way...

So we were coming out of a parking lot and hoping to turn left though we were not at a light or a stop sign. As we waited for the traffic to pass, a lady came up on the road from the right wanting to turn into the parking lot. When there were no more cars on the road coming from the left, she didn't turn in. We both looked over to see why and she was jesturing at us to go. We were a little bewildered...being that most drivers know that whoever is on the road has the right of way and that right of way would have been her in this situation.

So then a few more cars were coming from the left and neither of us had gone, us because we in no way have the right of way coming out of a parking lot and her because apparently she had never passed a driving test. So the next time that there was a space coming from the left we looked at her, she didn't go and then she started honking at us angrily and gesturing for us to go. At this point there were 5 cars behind her on the road and a few cars behind us in the parking lot so we finally just went. Although if it were up to me (I wasn't driving) I would have waited, just out of spite mainly because stupidity should not be rewarded. I was angry about this whole situation.

The right of way never belongs to the person coming from a parking lot. It always belongs to the person already on the road. So why are people so stupid? How has this woman not yet killed someone in a car? And lastly...what the hell? It was bewlidering for me and left me angry for about half an hour at the sheer stupidity of this woman. And no, it was not a confused older lady, that might have been at least understandable, it was a thirty-something soccer mom in an SUV.

I really wanted to turn around and pull into the parking lot and confront this woman, to let her know how ridiculously she had acted. Actually I wanted to punch her in the face...maybe I need to deal with some anger but seriously, learn how to drive people....

learn how to drive.