L.A. Can't Drive

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The photo of this blonde nut job in her early 40′s was taken on Olympic.  She immediately grabbed my attention when she made a right turn onto Olympic from a stop sign directly in front of another car.  The other driver had to slam on his/her brakes to avoid the collision while blaring on the car horn.  Was she perhaps taking the stop sign a tad too literally and felt that she fulfilled her obligation simply by stopping?  Normally you’re taught to look at oncoming traffic before safely merging, correct?  But before anyone starts making blonde jokes, I need to emphasize that drivers of all types pull this stunt all over L.A.  Your commute is not complete without a healthy stab at your brakes to avoid rear-ending a fu*kwad with a tan.  The typical bad Angeleno driver thinks of right-of-way as my-right-of-way, and a pathetically large percentage of drivers here need a refresher course on how to merge safely in all situations.  In this particular example, my guess is that this lady was just not paying attention in the slightest to surrounding traffic.  After this near-collision, she proceeded west on Olympic while idly changing lanes back and forth without signaling.  I got a good look at her at a red light and saw a completely distracted and oblivious driver chatting away into the cell phone in her hand that she was desperately trying to hide behind long sheets of fake blonde hair.  It was pretty funny to see her struggle to bury that phone in her scalp while feigning to touch her cheek in gentle contemplation.  Well, I’d be shocked if she were actually processing anything in that hollow head of hers.

Filed under: aggressive, car lights, cell phone, clueless, observation