Its not a phone booth!

First in tribute to the first snowflake to fall I give you this.Click me I'm funny!
Which is a good segway into my topic,asshat drivers and particularly ones who cross double white lines. We have traffic laws for a reason, and as you know a double white line, means DO NOT CROSS ME!! Yet lately I have seen people in increasing numbers completely disregard this simple little rule. One even very nearly avoided an accident, crossing over the white lines, merging much too early and causeing people on the highway to slam on their breaks, the person in the lead's breaks locked up and started to skid crazily. Fortunately no one was hit and the asshat drove on w/o a care in the world, probably didn't even see the chaos left in their wake. So, please, please do the world a favor and never cross the white lines, unless its an abosolute emergency and you are very aware of your surroundings and all aspects of traffic coming and going.

My second road ragey rantiness is cell phone drivers. People, you're not Dr. Who, you are not driving a phone booth, its a car. Its a deadly weapon. Some people its not too big of a deal, they seem to be able to multitask better than others. On the other hand you have these teenage valley girls, ear glued to their iPhone that daddy bought driving down the bypass going anywhere between 40 and 75 mph, depending on if they are going up a hill or not. I don't want to be too hypocritical though, on one job of mine at one point I was on two cell phones (both hands free, but one earbud in each ear), and randomly typing a password into a laptop when I got disconnected. That wasn't by choice though, one a test was started I couldn't stop my car for more than a few seconds or the test data would be all screwed up. But that being said, I did make sure I knew where all the vehicles were around me before doing what I needed to do. If I deemed the situation too unsafe I decided it was better to have screwed up data than myself or someone else in a casket.

Winter is here, don't be a tool, drive safe. Drive smart.

/rant