Road weary

Do you ever get road weary?

Maybe it’s just because I have an hour commute twice a day. Maybe it’s just rudeness run rampant. Or maybe I just don’t have the patience I used to. In my corner of the world, we have this great little shopping mecca up the road a ways. It has a Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Best Buy, Kohl’s, Marsh, Payless, Lowe’s, Target, Hallmark, etc. Really, everything you would need. Since it was built, the residential areas around it have exploded! Now, naturally, there’s A LOT of traffic. So they’ve started widening the streets, building roundabouts and overpasses. I’ve seen the plans and even though I’m totally willing to give a chance, I’m not a fan of a couple of the changes. Anyway, they’re in the middle of building an overpass and frontage street right now so ½ of the highway is closed. Plus, you can’t turn into the west side at all so you have to go WAY around the back way. Over the weekend I needed to run up to Michael's and PetSmart. Pretty simple you would think. A normally 20/30 minute excursion turned into well over an hour. I WAS SO PISSED OFF by the time we left I just wanted to cry. Instead, I proclaimed, “I’m not coming back up here until all this !@3J&*l(#& is done! It could be months…I don’t care. I’m done.

All of that made me think of all the stupid crap I see almost every day, and my list of bad driver pet peeves;
1. Don’t STOP in the lane you’re in, waiting for someone to let you into the lane you wish you were in!
2. Don’t drive into the intersection when the light turns yellow if the cars in front of you aren’t moving!
3. Don’t block the intersection.
4. Tailgating me only stresses YOU out, not me. I’m not the one who’s late.
5. When you are in the right, right turn lane, you’re supposed to stay in the right lane. Don’t turn from the right lane to the left lane!
6. STOP TEXTING WHILE YOU’RE DRIVING! I can’t tell you how many extra lights I’ve had to sit through because someone wasn’t paying attention! Not to mention all the times I’ve had to tap my brakes because someone was ‘drifting’.
7. Would it kill you to acknowledge my kindness when I let you cut in front of me? And don’t give me the stink eye when I don’t – I don’t have to you know.

I’ll probably have to come back and revise this list later!