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Quote by: Cephus I just got home from picking up my kids from school. In front of the school is a fire hydrant and a clearly painted red zone, right in the middle of a whole line of yellow curb clearly marked as no unattended car loading zone. While I'm standing there waiting for them to get out, some lady drives up and parks directly in the middle of the red zone so I ask her why she thinks that she's special and the law doesn't apply to her. She gets mad at me and makes a bunch of excuses. I tell her that she either moves her car or I call the police. She moves.
It can't be more than 30 seconds later that some moron in a brand new Lexus pulls in to the same spot, locks his car and LEAVES! He's clearly sitting in front of a fire hydrant in a red zone, also violating the city statue about the full block loading zone. I'm about to go do the same routine with him when I see this police car driving down the street so I flag it down and direct him to the moron flagrantly violating the law. Ticket time and the idiot is yelling at me like it's MY fault he's getting a ticket. Hopefully he got two tickets for violating the unattended car law too.
Since when did the entire planet start revolving around these self-absorbed assholes? And can we shoot them? |
To answer the title on the thread I think some push the limits. I drive 70 in a 65 zone. I think a lot of people do, not out of arrogance but taking a risk, sometimes a stupid one like sliding through a stop sign in a high traffic area.
Stop light. Middle of nowhere. 2 AM. Nothing for miles. Seems broken. That's another reason.
Then you have those who just don't give a damn and are aggressive drivers to the point of lunacy, like drivers who tailgate or drive through a parking lot fast with a cellphone up to their ear.
Then you have your typical arrogant asshole, like the guy behind you who pulls out while you are using an entrance ramp to an interstate, going across the berm, and then blocks you while laughing about it. I don't see a lot of that while I travel, but there's a lot of people doing that here for some reason. I wait for them to do it. Then I pull faster than they are pulling out. They hate that. Not much the can do. I have the right of way. I feel the same about someone who double parks and walks off or blocks a fire hydrant.