Turn Signals

Please, please please learn how to use your turn siganls. This is one of the most aggravating aspects of modern living, the way people drive. As the roads get more and more crowded, the lack of driving skills and driving courtesy are magnified exponentially. I DO NOT advocate any kind of violence, however, I begin to understand what drives some commuters to the breaking point.

Of course, I had a bad experience today, which is what prompted this rant. But really, how often would YOUR life be easier if some other driver's intentions had been clearly expressed via the turn signal. Most drivers these days are pretty quick top give the finger. With this tendency towards expression, you'd think signals of ANY kind would come naturally to the modern motorist. Not so, says I! I'm the kind of obsessive freak who signals even in parking lots... EVEN when there is no one else around. But, I must be one in a million on California roads.

So, I'm behind Driver-X today (gender and ethnicity are really irrelevant, bad driving knows no boarders). Driver-X performed a series of manuvers in mildly congested city traffic today, the likes of which belong in the Motorist Hall of Fame. There was total disregard of Man and Machine as Driver-X weaved through traffic in some sort of pattern based on Native American basketry. No less than 5 lane changes within the mile and a quarter that I was behind Driver-X with nary a signal to be had. And as I saw 5 of them, these gestures obviosly did little to advance Driver-X's position in the great migration of work-a-day joes. It's hard to imagine any motive except malice in Driver-X's behavior.

I've had an epiphany!!!! This is the very reason for the push toward gas guzzling "monster trucks" being used as commuter vehicles. It is not vanity or pagentry that motiviates these drivers. They must simply be aquiring the closest thing to a TANK that they can procure to defend themselves from the onslaught of the nefarious California Driver-X! Get out the check book honey, I finally found a justification and a raison d'etre for that Escalade.
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And that's enough for now.

Brian Norwood

Platypi Design