/dev/random: Grump, grump
Mar. 1st, 2018 04:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptBecause it is apparently keeping me awake at the moment, here's a thing that's made me grumpy:
For the previous two mornings, as I have been driving early, two different cars have overtaken and passed me while I was approaching the speed limit. They chose to do so by crossing over a double yellow line to do so, which is very illegal in the States.
I would not normally be grumpy about the overtaking. But this double yellow lines are usually in place because it is unsafe to overtake someone at that spot, often because visibility is limited enough that someone would not be able to react to the presence of a vehicle in the oncoming lane that wasn't there when they started the maneuver.
So I'm grumpy about it, because if either of those cars had caused a near miss, I would be angry, if they had caused a collision, I would be furious, and I would be incandescent with rage if that collision involved my vehicle in any way at all.
Two different cars in the same spot on successive days. I get that people are in a hurry, but they're usually more sensible than that.
For the previous two mornings, as I have been driving early, two different cars have overtaken and passed me while I was approaching the speed limit. They chose to do so by crossing over a double yellow line to do so, which is very illegal in the States.
I would not normally be grumpy about the overtaking. But this double yellow lines are usually in place because it is unsafe to overtake someone at that spot, often because visibility is limited enough that someone would not be able to react to the presence of a vehicle in the oncoming lane that wasn't there when they started the maneuver.
So I'm grumpy about it, because if either of those cars had caused a near miss, I would be angry, if they had caused a collision, I would be furious, and I would be incandescent with rage if that collision involved my vehicle in any way at all.
Two different cars in the same spot on successive days. I get that people are in a hurry, but they're usually more sensible than that.
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