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Lord knows I wasn’t exactly the safest driver when I was a teenager growing up in New York.  However, I have no doubt that a vast majority of our youth in L.A. pick up bad driving habits from their parents.  That, coupled with the inherent feeling of youthful invincibility, creates a dangerous cocktail for teenagers and young adults.  In fact, vehicular-related deaths in this demographic has actually increased in recent years.  This spoiled blonde brat in a Jaguar that daddy bought her is no exception.  She also reinforced the stereotype that vanity-plated drivers tend to be poor drivers; all I’ll say is that she had a palindromic license plate that started and ended with an ‘L’.  Anyway, I’ve mentioned a few times in the past how I can’t stand people who tailgate in the canyons (Laurel, Coldwater, Benedict, etc.), particularly during rush hour.  You literally achieve nothing in terms of your commute time, and you only increase the risk of an accident, which will just inconvenience everyone in the end.  Well, this girl still felt the need to bumper-hump my car all along Beverly Glen, traveling north from Westwood to the Valley.  When we reached the brief stretch of Beverly Glen, where it splits into 2 lanes, she slammed on the accelerator and started to weave aggressively in and out of traffic (she was at least signaling, I’ll give her that).  In the end, she only ended up 2 cars ahead, after burning a quarter tank of gas over a couple thousand feet.  In high school, two classmates of mine got into a serious car accident when they were speeding home from a house party (alcohol was probably involved) and hit a tree at close to 80 mph.  One was instantly killed, and the other became paraplegic.  One can only hope that this girl doesn’t learn the lesson of safe driving the hard way, and maybe her parents would serve her better by monitoring her driving habits.

Filed under: aggressive, clueless, speeding, tailgating