Dumb drivers

I unfortunately live in the state with the worst drivers ever. The amount of crap I see on the roads daily is not even funny, and I can't even begin to explain!

So the last few days it has been really dusty outside, sand storms and all that jazz. Now, for anyone that has not had that happen to them, it is just like fog, visibility is near zero, and it has one more downside, sand tastes bad. There are however these dumb drivers who decide that it is best for the world, and especially themselves to turn on their bright lights. Yes, if you are thinking of how that is an bad idea while driving in fog, it is the same concept in dust. Turning on their bright lights causes the light be reflected off the sand particles so visibility is further reduced, and at the same time you are being an major pain in the ass for people coming from the other direction, since bright lights are bright sand or no sand. People who do this on major highways should be shot, since when you are driving next to such an ignorant fool you are blinded as well from all the whiteness of their lights. Best thing to do, turn on fog lights, they shine low and are amber coloured and thus let you see further and at the same time not blind other people on the road.

Then there are those people that don't know how to use a blinker. So while you are driving along, and you properly signal that you are going to move into a the left lane for example, some guy in the far lane may decide he wants to move over to the right, and does not turn on his blinker. So as you make your move, some huge truck or SUV comes hurling at you sideways.

Coming back to the bright lights, apparently people find that if they turn em on at night, they are able to see better, not understanding that when someone approaches them they are blind as a bat and could make a bee line for their car. Same goes for people that are in the middle of a long row of cars, and they have their bright lights on shining directly into the car in front of theirs mirror. Learn how to drive, bright lights are only allowed to be used on unlit streets, and where there is no on-coming traffic that could be blinded.

Other dumb crap I have seen people pull: Figure out how a car looks wedged underneath a FedEx truck. I have to sit in traffic because some 18 year old in a Honda Civic lost control of his car and got stuck underneath a huge FedEx truck. Thanks, now my already long drive is even longer because everyone has to see what happened. The kid is okay, now hurry it up. Beat that orange just that last second instead of stopping and waiting, and off course getting hit by the driver who was waiting for it to turn orange so he could make his left hand turn (for you people driving on the wrong side of the road, that would be a right turn).

Coming back to stand storms, there are normally huge gusts of wind associated with these. A small car like mine will get tossed around quite a bit, but I can feel it and correct, some of these people have apparently never had a gust of wind hit their car, as you see them swerve, over-correct, almost hit the guard rail, over-correct into the other direction and end up in a different lane.

My all time favourite dumb thing to do is inch up at the traffic light. Slowly but surely roll your car over the line until it turns green, and then when it turns green? Well off course, we not in a hurry anymore, we slowly accelerate and do 5 Mph's BELOW the speed limit. Come on grandma, hit the gas pedal, if you were in such a rush to not be able to have your car properly stopped at a traffic light, please for the love of whoever you love, HIT THE GAS PEDAL.