08 October 2007

Driving Tips

I wanted to take this opportunity to share some driving tips, which apparently the world desperately needs.

The sign with the big numbers on it? That's the speed limit. It's illegal to exceed it. You are free, of course, to make your own decisions with regards to this matter, but please stop flipping me off, tailgaiting, and generally being rude to me when I follow it.

When there is a line of orange cones down the middle of the road, I'm pretty sure you're not supposed to weave between them to get on the other side and pass people. Just a thought.

The blinkers for signaling to change lanes in your car are not just for your own benefit. If you'll use them, the rest of us can not be completely shocked when you zip out in front of us.

Fines are double for speeding in work zones. The speed limit, then, is clearly even more important at those times. Please stay off my back bumper while we drive through those zones. I choose intentionally to not have any bumper stickers, and would appreciate it if you wouldn't make yourself one.

2 comments:

IzeOfLight said...

Why is it that bad drivers are more annoying and frustrating than almost anything else? I was so annoyed yesterday when this car wouldn't KEEP MOVING in front of the dollar theater, waiting for maybe two minutes, with all these other cars stopped, too, so we couldn't move until their passenger bought tickets or whatever. What the?

Michael Hoopes said...

Could'nt agree with you more, Liz. Here's a joke:

A lawyer was in a hurry to get somewhere obviously important. He slowed down at a stop sign and then went on through. A police man promptly pulled him over and proceeded to write the lawyer a ticket for failing to come to a full and complete stop at a stop sign. The lawyer was determined not to get a ticket. In a flurry of frightening intelectuall genious, the lawyer thoroughly befuddled the policeman. Just to prove he was smarter than the cop, he had one more pointto make, that slowing down and stopping are practically the same thing. To which the policeman responed by pulling the lawyer out of his car and beat him with his club.

"Would you like me to slow down or come to a full and complete stop?"