HOV Stands for High Occupancy Vehicle – The fine for driving in the HOV lane by yourself is quite steep here in Arizona, but that doesn’t seem to deter numerous people from doing it every day. The last two days, a woman in a horribly beat up Escalade (I’d guess it’s a mid nineties model) with temporary plates (meaning she just bought it) has been driving in front (Wednesday) and behind (today) us. This severely bugs us*. It annoys us to no end that people like her (and others I don’t feel like pointing out right now) scoff the Law. We carpool for the right to use that lane and you’re basically giving us the finger by choosing to break the law and use the HOV lane as a single.
You’re Driving a Mercedes, It Shouldn’t Be Pouring Blue Smoke. Even I Know That – I think it’s strange when people buy “luxury” cars and then choose to not keep them up. Honestly, it makes me think you’ve stolen the car. It has me hitting the recerc button on the dash as quickly as I can and wrinkling my nose at you. Fix your car. Believe me, it’s going to be less expensive if you don’t put it off.
Sign Language is Best Practiced at a Speed Less Than 65 – While meandering down the AZ-51 on our way to work a week or so back, I found myself (mind you, I’m not driving)getting really irritated with the women in the car in front of us. Consistency of speed isn’t the hardest thing to manage, most cars have cruise control, especially if you’ve got a bit higher than a base model – she did. It wasn’t for a few minutes that I realized that every time she slowed, it was because she was reading the passengers hands… They were speaking to each other in sign language while driving down the highway. I know sign language, and I’m not stupid enough to use it while driving, but I really wanted to send a few signs their way when they finally got over.
Are You Following Me? – It always amuses me when people feel like you should have waited to pull out “in front of them.” Now, this doesn’t apply if said person had to slam on their breaks to avoid hitting you – that in and of itself is extremely irritating. We pulled out onto the main road heading toward work one morning and the guy in the geo prism that was headed our way seemed to feel like we’d cut him off… Thing is, he never got more than four car lengths from us until we stopped at the first red light we came upon. Hopping in the other lane, he stopped one car ahead of us and then turned around in his seat to give us the evil eye. When we pulled into get gas shortly after that light, we thought that was the end of it. But no. when we got back on the road and continued toward work… what was behind us? A geo prism. The same Geo prism. Was he following us? He soon went straight when we took our normal turn, but still… It was estrange meng.
The HOV Lane May NOT Be the “Fast Lane” But You Could At Least Go the Speed Limit – You’ll notice that the HOV lane is one of my biggest points of contention, but I think the worst thing you can do in it is to go under the speed limit. You don’t have to go over, but at least match it.
If I’m Doing 5-Over in the Slow Lane, You don’t Need to Tailgate Me In Your Big Truck – On our way home from picking up Lucy from “grandma’s” we were in the far right lane of the loop 101, when a large delivery truck barreled up behind us. We were in the X-Terra and not my teeny little Civic, which I was extremely thankful for, but the truck was still daunting, even in the SUV. We were, as I’ve noted already doing 5 miles over the posted speed limit, but this jerk would not back off. Three exits later, he cut someone off to get off the freeway and I, for one, was glad to be rid of him.
*I’m not speaking in the third person, I’m speaking of the “us” that is Earl and I.
The brain soup of a geek girl who doesn't know how to smile, adores her ewok, and is figuring things out one cup of tea at a time.
I'm glad your use of we is not the imperial we, or the snobby we. Oh, and I agree with your driving peeves.
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