
So last week I found my life in peril while driving down Main Street in Farmington and Centerville. Texting and driving? No. Drinking and driving? No. Elderly and driving? YES! So here's what happened: I'm driving back to the office and I pull up behind an extremely slow moving car going 25 mph in a 40 zone. I'm really not trying to stereotype, but... it was a woman with handicapped plates... Haha. So I'm just enjoying a nice "stroll" down Main when a car comes up behind me and starts riding my tail! And when I say riding, I mean RIDING MY TAIL!!! The car behind starts weaving back and forth as if its going to pass me on the shoulder or median and I'm starting to get pretty mad. Then I notice that it's a really old man who can barely see over the wheel and oh yea, HANDICAP PLATES! I was surrounded. It was in this moment that I thought of pulling down a side street or off to the side, but this guy was tailing me so close that if I hit my brakes he would've plowed into me for sure. So there I am in the handicapped gauntlet of death. Well the old man starts flashing his lights at me so I start flashing my brakes and apparently he'd had enough. He flew around me into the median, gave me a nasty look, further floored the gas, and laid on the horn as he passed the old woman in front of me. Now for most people, this would have been enough, right? Not for this old geezer. He swerved sharply right in front of the blue hair in front of me, completely cutting her off and nearly running her off the road! I'm not even kidding. It was the most insane thing I've ever seen while driving. Maybe it was free pancakes at Denny's? Spare ribs day at Chuck-a-Rama? Sale on prunes at Smith's? Who knows. Apparently the old man had to pee or something. Sigh... another day, another near death experience at the hands of my elders. Word.
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