Agreed. The stupid people are everywhere and a constant menace.
That’s why I will be SO glad when the whole holiday season thing is over.
No idea where all these people are coming from or why they’re all driving like they’re jacked on crank.
I’ve been driving *even more* defensive as hell since the week before Thanksgiving and it’s mentally exhausting.
It’s as though stop lights/signs, right of ways, speed limits and lanes have lost all meaning.
One night, coming home on the interstate, emergency vehicles started flying the other way and just as I was getting to it, they used the emergency turnaround and zoomed ahead of me.
For about 10 seconds I had the chance to pray it was something past my upcoming exit, but *no*, it was just up the road another half mile.
In a way I cannot even imagine, a pickup truck was rammed underneath the rear of a semi *that had been parked on the shoulder* with its flashers on.
The driver’s face was inches from the doors of the trailer and the whole front of the rather large truck was under it.
Immediately, I was stopped, surrounded and trapped by over a dozen emergency vehicles and not one but two “jaws of life” trucks.
Sat there for over an hour and half, waiting to get another half mile to the exit, and home.
The driver was moving his head and hands and survived.
Since I had nothing else to do, I was on FB for the local fire/rescue call page and wound up chatting with others also stuck behind the accident, giving updates, since I was the one sitting right beside of it all.
So many insane and horrific accidents in the last two months.
As happens SO many times, because I had a random thought and dawdled somewhere for a few minutes when I was intending to go home, I missed being there for or in the accident.
I really think God puts those “yeah, I should go piddle around in Dollar General a coupla minutes” thoughts in my head.