I feel a little guilty this morning. I was so happy to see a guy drive his car off the road.
We had a nasty sheet of ice here in the morning (black ice --- OMG HISHUKE) which was publicized all over local weather. I don't watch local weather, but went out to get bagels this morning and needed exactly two steps out the side door to nearly break my neck and realize the roads will be treacherous.
So I get in the Land Rover and I'm slowly cruising out along the main roads. I notice a fire hydrant nearly knocked over with marks up onto the curb and a car parked about 20 feet past that with flashing lights. There were a couple of cars off to the side of the road like this that clearly had slid off and hid a tree or a hydrant etc.
A few blocks later, some icehole comes speeding up behind me in his Hyundai. I'm in the right lane and there's basically nobody else on the road, it's around 7:30am on a Sunday. He's riding my tail and I've got my 4yo in the back and thinking about what a moron this guy is. So he speeds up and goes into the left lane to pass me. He gets about 10 feet past my car and goes to move into the right lane in front of me, and of course the maroon's car goes sliding off the road up onto the curb and hits a small tree. I nearly hit him, had to swerve to maneuver around the tail of his car. As I did I leaned on the horn, first angry at the guy, then smiled gladly about the fact that he got every little ounce of what he deserved.
Suck it, Earnhardt.
People really are so, so incredibly stupid. I mean, I know this. I see it all the time. And yet somehow every time I see more evidence of it, I'm just stunned.
