Idiocy Meter
Asshole Meter
Maybe it’s an end of summer thing, but the uptick in driver aggression has been palpable. My parents were visiting from New York, and my dad was asking me about this blog and if it were still running. On a side note, it’s so nice to know that my parents are following up with my activities on such a regular basis. As I was informing him that there has been no shortage of asinine driving behavior, some clueless moron yanked his car from our right directly in front of us and nearly collided into another car as she attempted to make it over to the 134 Fwy from the 101 Fwy S through lanes. Um, read the signs and look at the lane markings a bit better next time, lady.
Zigzagging, tailgating, speeding, non-signaling dipsh*ts aside, we later encountered this one impatient asswipe exiting the 110 Fwy behind us at Expedition in Downtown L.A. This arrogant tool was tired of driving behind me and decided to swerve around me onto the shoulder of the off-ramp to exit. At this point, he was sitting at the red light at the end of the off-ramp along with all the other drivers. So the point of his illegal maneuver was….? Anyway, he was camped in the left-turn-only lane, but as the light turned green, he gunned it straight and cut off the driver to his right, who naturally and rightfully honked in response. I’m sorry if this sounds harsh, but this is what often comes from parents who don’t love their children.
Anyway, the driver above was a nail-biting douche in his 40s driving a brand new BMW 325i (license plate 7AJT). Fortunately, we were driving around this prick on local roads, so any havoc that could arise from his non-signaling, leapfrogging, tailgating behavior in Valley Village would be much less severe at lower speeds. Leapfrogging at intersections to pass drivers has been continually a particularly thorny pet peeve. Doing so on single-laned roads in light traffic makes even less sense to me. Needless to say, this guy needs to take a serious chill pill, get a decent manicure that doesn’t involve tooth enamel, and find a shrink to talk about his inferiority complex.