There are days when you drive out of necessity and wonder in awe at the other drivers on the road. It used to be that those days were fairly random and rare. Just lately, it seems that those days are every day, and you pass at least one careless, reckless, or just plain stupid driver every time you try and go somewhere.
This blog is about that. Because it makes me crazy. Because I need to vent about it. And because sometimes, it's just too funny or mindblowing not to share.
For example:
My husband and I were driving home from my sister's house about a month ago. On the way home, I began to notice a rather alarming trend. There were a disturbing number of drivers who weren't looking at the road! They were looking at their cell phone, their GPS, their passenger, their radio, their coffee, the floor of their car, in their purse, or at the car that just got pulled over by the police officer. But at least every other car seemed to have a driver who was not watching the road nor apparently paying attention. So when we hit the parkway that marked the 15 minute point from home, I started counting cars, making a note of how many were not actually looking at the road.
We passed 12 cars on that parkway (it was a very quiet evening, and I keep meaning to redo the experiment sometime on a busier night). In those 12 cars, 8 drivers were not looking at the road. That is fully 2/3 of the drivers on the road that evening who were not actually LOOKING at the road.
Frankly, I found that number a little upsetting as a passenger. No wonder there are so many accidents. How can you drive if you don't know where you are going?
Next poll...how many drivers don't drive with their hands?
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