The frustration of yesterday:
I was passing someone on the way home from work, and noticed something odd about the backseat passenger. When I looked, I saw a boy - maybe not more than 8 - standing on the seat, leaning over the front seat. And, I'm thinking, what kind of parent is this irresponsible? Then, I notice that the driver is paying absolutely no attention, because he's too bust talking on the phone.
Hey, dumbass, get off the phone, and get you kid in the seat belt for Christ's sake!!
Then he realized at the last minute that this was the exit he wanted - too busy on the phone, and cuts across 4 lanes of traffic - including right in front of me. Now, had I slightly less reactions, I would have gone through his back end *hint Lexus versus Grand Cherokee - Grand Cherokee wins* and his kid would be in or through the windsheild.
Now, what pisses me off is the increadible stupidity that humanity shows each and every day. Does it not occur to any person that if your kid is mis-behaving, not wearing the seat belt, clowning around, etc. to pull your ass over and take care of the problem????? Appearantly not, cause they're far far too busy to be bothered with stopping, and have to deal with it while driving. Listen people, when you're on the road, your attention goes to the road. PERIOD. If you need to discipline your kid - pull over. If you need to grab that peice of paper that fell on the floor - pull over. If you need to spend that much concentration on the phone - pull over. I'd be perfectly fine if your idiocy kills you, but most often, it doesn't. The dumbass peice of shit gets to walk away unhurt, while the others get killed or seriously wounded. Well, not this one - I'll do everything in my power in that last second to be sure you and your occupants are the ones that are killed.
"oh, but it's rush hour and I can't pull over because of the traffic density" well, tough fucking shit. Pull your ass over and wait. If it takes an hour, that's your tough shit.
I'd say some people shouldn't be having kids, or driving, but I think I'll just be more generic and say some people just shouldn't be alive - taking up my oxygen and food supply.
Posted by haglund at September 18, 2002 2:59 PM