L.A. Can't Drive

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Seriously, is it just me or do an inordinately large percentage of drivers in this town navigate the roads like they have a big, fat eye patch over one eye?  I’m not exaggerating when I say that we have a populace that suffers from depth perception issues.  The ability to stay in one’s lane also seems to be inversely proportional to the size of one’s vehicle.  Have you noticed that?  You have borderline midgets (OK, little person, for all you knee-jerk PC’ers) who can barely see over the steering wheel while driving these massive gas-guzzling behemoths.  Earlier today in a parking lot, this little lady started backing out of her parking space right when we were behind her vehicle, waiting for pedestrians to cross in front; blind spots become huge rolling blackouts for these inattentive drivers in these 3, 4-ton vehicles.

Then you have lobotimized morons like this tool in a Honda Civic who was waiting for oncoming traffic to clear before making a right turn onto La Brea in Hollywood.  Unfortunately for us, numnuts thought it was the perfect time to initiate his turn when we were about 40 feet away from his vehicle traveling at about 35 mph.  For those math buffs out there, 35 mph equates to about 51 1/3 feet per second.  So, we had less than a second to hit our brakes to avoid rear-ending this jackass who then proceeded to slowly accelerate to about 20 mph.  Honestly, who in their right mind drives this way?

Filed under: clueless, observation