So... I haven't written anything for a while. I always had a few ideas on the tip of my brain, to write about... but with having moved recently to a 160 year-old house with a lot of land that hadn't been landscaped in any shape or form for God-knows-how-many years, I've been otherwise busy.
So, today, I thought I'd introduce "themes" to this blog. Themes is intended to be about 'observations; trends' as you'd see them every day on the roads. It's not really about my opinion, more just observations of how certain cars attract certain drivers and how they all share the same behaviour.
The first theme: Cars that you will never see going fast... or even as fast as the posted speed limit. You know these cars. You're always stuck behind them, doing 10-under the limit when you're actually in a hurry to get to work or when you're stuck behind them because of a double yellow-line.
1: Toyota Corollla: It seems with the Corolla, there's an obligation to be a terrified, middle-aged Asian woman who clearly doesn't know where the hell she's going. The one who is always in the turning lane, who then merges back into the faster lane of traffic but while doing something like 40-less than all of us while her turn-signal still blinks for that never-happened right-turn!
2: Almost every Buick, (except the Enclave): Ever notice how that Gold-tinted Buick "land-yacht" is almost always being driven by a 90 year-old, Fedora-wearing gentleman who can barely see over the steering wheel?! It's always someone who is too old to not only see over the sterring wheel, but has no concept of the size of their vehicle; no understanding that 40kph is NOTHING like 40mph; and they're always oblivious to that left-turn signal blinking away for the last 25 minutes!
3: Toyota Camry: Always driven by a middle-aged Caucasian woman who thinks her car's the size of Noah's Arc and that equates to start braking 100 meters before the Stop sign. They also always use their turn signal and move over into your lane without EVER looking in the mirror! And then when you use your horn to advise her that she's about to force you into attempting to defy the law of physics that dictates that 'no two objects can occupy the same space at the same time', she terrifyingly over-reacts and almost drives into the ditch and almost taking the next three cars behind with her!
4: Toyota Prius: WHO CARES?!!
5: Electric scooters: WHY THE HELL ARE THESE THINGS ALLOWED ON THE ROAD?!?!?
6: Cop cars on patrol: I AM sure that these guys just love driving at a ridiculously-below-the-limit speed just to see if anyone will dare pass them, even if it's well-below the allowed limit.
7: Honda Accord 4-cylinder, 4-door: They're always green or beige and are incapable to go as much as the posted limit for reasons I cannot honestly imagine.
8: An empty schoolbus: why are they going so slow when they're empty?!
