Rules of the Road apply to EVERYBODY!!!

Monday, 9/22/08
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OMG do people pass their driving test then toss the Rules of the Road out the window on their way home??!! Today we left to take the kids to school, and almost every single stoplight on the way there was DOA; not even flashing, out completely. Does NOBODY realize that when a stoplight is out, it AUTOMATICALLY is to be treated as a four-way stop??!! I cannot tell you how many times we nearly got CREAMED by some idiot who thought, "Oh gee, the guy in front of me went, I think I'll try and sneak through too."

We got a bit angry after about four blocks of this; so at the next stoplight (which was also out, BTW), the people on the cross-street went and I decided to go. Naturally, some idiot woman in a Toyota P.O.S. decided to try and sneak through behind the other people, and came VERY close to t-boning my BRAND NEW Suburban. I slammed on the brakes in front of her and we just STARED her down, and made her sit there a good ten seconds before I VERY slowly proceeded (to give her a few extra seconds to think about the error of her ways). She was COMPLETELY clueless, makes Britny Spears look like a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize. LOL

I'm thinking I should write a letter to our local paper, not that it would do any good. At least I would be able to vent, get it off my chest.....and hopefully get my point across to a FEW people. I swear, I thought Chicago was bad, but at least up there they KNEW the Rules of the Road and even followed them most of the time.