How not to drive in the snow
Feb. 2nd, 2009 10:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
draggonlaadyYou know, it's February. We've had snow on the ground for months. You would THINK that people would have figured out how to drive in the stuff. Apparently, this is not so. Heading home from my folks' last night, going a comfortable 30mph (speed limit is 50 there, but it was dark, and snowing, and downhill at a pretty good angle). We come around a blind corner, and there, in my lane, was a car. It was going SO SLOW that I thought it was stopped. I brake and pull into the left lane, there being no oncoming traffic and no way I was stopping before I hit them.
And then the !(@$&)&*#$()*@#!@##%-ing #)473902-er flips on his left turn signal and turns left across the lane I've just pulled into to try to maneuver around him. Turns out I DID have enough space to stop after all, but not by a lot, and not without riding the edge of putting the car into a skid. So I reverse directions and dodge back to the right, and dumb-ass pulls off to the left, and as I go past, I see his reverse lights come on, so apparently he was only going left in a misguided attempt to get out of my way, he was NOT going so slowly because he was turning, and his reaction to someone trying to get around is apparently to cut in front of them. I did not wait around to see if he got himself backed out of the un-plowed driveway he'd just pulled into, because I'm a bitch like that.
And then the !(@$&)&*#$()*@#!@##%-ing #)473902-er flips on his left turn signal and turns left across the lane I've just pulled into to try to maneuver around him. Turns out I DID have enough space to stop after all, but not by a lot, and not without riding the edge of putting the car into a skid. So I reverse directions and dodge back to the right, and dumb-ass pulls off to the left, and as I go past, I see his reverse lights come on, so apparently he was only going left in a misguided attempt to get out of my way, he was NOT going so slowly because he was turning, and his reaction to someone trying to get around is apparently to cut in front of them. I did not wait around to see if he got himself backed out of the un-plowed driveway he'd just pulled into, because I'm a bitch like that.
