To all you asswipes who think it's a good idea to chit chat on the phone with Great Aunt Marge while driving.
It is perfectly ok and acceptable in the state of California for me to 'laneshare' with you. That is, for me to use an eansy bit of your lane while you occupy it. We've all seen it done, and despite my privledge, I tend to reserve it for stopped and near stopped traffic.
This said, the reciprocal is not true. It is NOT okay for your ten ton Obesissan BFV to 'laneshare' with me, because you share my lane rather the same way my cat shares the bed- you take it all.
Now I know, it's not a fair judgement for me to come down on you because really you weren't intending to try to run me off the road- it's just that you couldn't possibly see me while you were busy visualizing Aunt Marge's new dress she was describing or whatever.
Drivers, you keep claiming you don't see motorcycles.
Here's a frickkin' clue: HANG UP!
For that matter, turn off the video player, the laptop, the fax machine or whatever else you've got going on because you think it's a waste of 15 minutes to just drive. If you aren't seeing what is around you, then it's pretty obvious you shouldn't be multitasking. This is the 3rd time in a month one of you dorks has come into my lane almost forced me off the road. I'm not appreciative of it, particularly this morning when I happened to be on a bridge at the time.
Oh, and one of those friendly 'Sorry' waves is for when you cut someone off in traffic, not when you make a failed attempt to up your personal body count. So just don't do it. Particularly not if you're STILL TALKING into the cell phone at the time.
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