Road Rage

Over the past year or so, I have developed a bit of road rage. Driving two and a half hours every other week gives me a lot of time to witness stupid drivers in lots of close calls. Today was no exception.

I was just leaving Humboldt when I caught up to this junk bucket of a car going about 80 km/h. I sped up and passed them (safely, I might add), then continued on my merry way. The car sped up a bit but was still quite far behind me.

Five minutes later, the car sped up and sat right on my ass for a few minutes. I might add here that we had been the only cars around for awhile. THEN, as we FINALLY met a car, the car behind me decides to pull out and pass. The car coming at us was OBVIOUSLY way too close to pass, but the car still did it. If I hadn't swerved onto the shoulder, that car would have hit the oncoming car head on.

THEN, to make matters WORSE, two minutes later he passes a pokey car that we had caught up to. Did he learn from his mistake and wait until the coast was clear? Nope.

The schmuck decides to pull out and pass when there's another oncoming car, only this car is MUCH too close for him to safely pass. I gasped and almost covered my eyes, but then realized I was still driving, so I watched in horror as the oncoming car swerved onto the shoulder and the car that the idiot was passing stayed in his/her own lane.

I was tempted to pin on it so I could pass him and give him the finger, but I didn't do it for two reasons:
1) I'm a pansy
2) I live alone. If this psycho decided to follow me home, I wouldn't have a big strong man there to protect me.

I wish I could say that natural selection almost took its course, but it didn't. The victims of this idiocy would be the innocent drivers he was trying to pass. I'm getting angry all over again. Honestly, how can people be so stupid?