People Are Stupid

In case you were worrying that people may have wised up since the last time I gave you an update, rest assured-- they're still incredibly stupid. Today I saw several examples of extreme human dumbassedness.

On Evelyn Gandy Parkway an idiot on a brand new Harley nearly got himself and his girlfriend squished by a pickup truck when he suddenly slowed down in front of it BECAUSE HE WAS TALKING ON THE CELL PHONE THAT HIS GIRLFRIEND WAS HOLDING UP TO HIS EAR. If using a cell phone in a car is risky, using one on a motorcycle is f*cking suicidal.

Then I saw an idiot in a Nissan Sentra nearly get killed because she came to a complete. freaking. stop. at the end of an on-ramp to I-59. MERGE, BITCH! I hate people who do the stop-at-the-end-of-the-onramp thing. Every time I see it, I feel an overwhelming urge to slam into their car just so I can give them a lesson in not coming to a stop in interstate traffic.

After that I saw an idiot in a Kia smash into the back of a truck at a red light. I'd bet you a hillbilly supply of farm animals he was talking on a cell phone, or texting, or doing some other stupid, non-driving-related activity when he should've been looking straight ahead so he could notice that the truck in the windshield was getting bigger. Tim pointed out that the truck was unscathed while the Kia appeared to have major damage. There were lots of little Kia parts on Hardy Street. I guess that's what you get when you buy a car that looks like a luxury sedan but only costs $9000-- a purchasing decision that may serve as further proof of the man's inferior reasoning abilities.

All three of my human stupidity encounters were traffic related. Sadly, all three of these things were witnessed in less than 20 minutes of driving. Now I remember why I never leave the house.