Ramblings of a SAHM: Driving

I know every city claims the worst drivers in the world but I think we in Miami take the cake. Today we drove down to Florida City to grocery shop. It's about 20 miles away from our apartment give or take a few miles. On the way there I got cut off more times than I can count. There was one car that was trying to cross from one side of US1 to the other. Let's see they were going from the east side to the west side lanes. Well they got to the west lane and their whole front end was sticking out into traffic. They just sat there. Why they didn't continue all the way into the lane and drive south like they were supposed to I have absolutely no idea. So all of us cars already going south had to creep into the other lane to go around these fucking idiots.

Driving here is always a gamble. People ask if I gamble and I say "Yeah, with my life everytime I drive anywhere". There is always a car stopped in the lane letting people off. People are always driving slow for a few reasons, 1- they are on their cell phones, 2- they are reading their newpapers or mail, 3-they are too busy pointing at some site to look ahead and drive.

Today there was a jeep that was just sitting there in the far left lane not moving. So I am thinking her car stalled or something. No she is looking down into her lap at something so fascinating(I don't want to know) that she didn't notice all the cars in front of her had left her far behind.

No one uses their blinker and if they do they use it wayyyyyy before they need to. They will put their blinkers on to turn then pass 4 or 5 streets or entry ways before they actually turn. To me that defeats the whole purpose of using the turn signal. It still leaves me and anyone else on the road, guessing what the hell they are going to do next. I guess none of them have ever heard of the 3 second rule. So in Miami I don't trust blinkers. No one ever uses them like they are supposed to.

Okay so this isn't dangerous, well in the sense that it could kill me, but I am really scared of any mini-van or SUV or any car for that matter, I pull up behind that has one or more of these bumper stickers: