Use Your Good Eye…Idiot
People in this country will forgive a lot of things, maybe even most things, but there is one thing people find unforgivable.
One thing that is so contemptuous, so vile, that it will send normally docile people over the edge.
It causes the young and healthy to have debilitating brain aneurysms, and reduces white-haired grandmothers to obscene gestures and obscenity laced tirades.
It even caused Pope Francis to punch a mime in the face.
What is this one thing: people who screw-up traffic.
Note: I was just kidding about people who screw-up traffic causing Pope Francis to punch a mime in the face; mimes are the reason Pope Francis punched a mime in the face.
Other motorists don’t care why you’re screwing up traffic, just that you are screwing up traffic. You could be slumped over your steering wheel with an arrow protruding from one of your eyes sockets and most compassionate thing you’re gonna hear from another motorist is: “Hey idiot–use your good eye.”
The incident causing traffic to be screwed-up could be completely beyond your control.
Note: In an unrelated matter, did you know that without transmission fluid, a car is less of an automobile and more of a giant metal traffic clogger? It is.
Here are just some of the ways you can screw-up traffic:
- By driving.
- By driving too slowly in the fast-lane; it’s called the fast-lane, people are trying to get somewhere.
- By driving too fast; are you trying to kill someone, maniac?
- By never using your turn signal; let people know what you’re doing. You’re obviously stupid, we just don’t know how stupid.
- By driving for miles and miles with your turn signal blinking for no apparent reason.
- By consuming 15 to 20 cans of Coors Light before driving your kids to Sunday School. (You know who you are.)
- By sitting at a 4-way stop and gaping numbly at the other drivers when it’s clearly your turn to go.
- By making an obscene gesture to another motorist who is gaping at you at a 4-way stop, even though it’s clearly his turn to go.
- By taking your eyes off the road to text your friend; nothing you have to say is important.
- By taking your eyes off the road to pick-up the cell phone you just dropped while texting your friend. (You will however need to find it to dial 911 after you hit that tree.)
- By driving down the road with your seat-belt dangling from the door, making sparks on the road; it’s dangerous when you cause other motorists to laugh hysterically.
- By having your automobile come to an abrupt stop in the middle of a busy street because your transmission fluid has suddenly drained from your car. (This is your not fault; you can tell all those idiots honking their horns to shove it.)
Remember: it doesn’t matter why you’ve screwed-up traffic, just that you have.
Do you think that people hate O.J. Simpson because he got away with double-homicide? No. It’s because when the police came to get him, he got in that Ford Bronco, got on the California highway on a Friday afternoon and screwed-up traffic.
You were the idiot blocking traffic with a puddle under your car? Figures. 🙂
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I’m always the idiot.
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Your post is like a public service! It should be required reading at every driver education class in the world.
The sad part is, none of the people you described above recognize themselves on the list.
The last time all the transmission fluid drained out of my car in the middle of traffic, I nearly sprained both middle fingers trying to explain to passing motorists why I wasn’t moving.
Good luck with the transmission. 😀
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I’m also good at public service announcements concerning the perils of chlamydia.
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